‘New e-waste rules soon in country’

To liberate the environment from e-waste, new rules will be implemented soon in the country.

The initiative has been already taken to make the environment free from e-waste, said Dr VK Saraswat, Member, NITI Aayog.

He was speaking at Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad on Wednesday.

“Under this rule, one can be returned the old, used and waste electronic goods to their respective showrooms and he will get some refund against that. A trail (of return such goods) has been started at Bengaluru,” added Saraswat. All electronic goods manufacturers must have to erect an e-waste disposal plant and they have to destroy that after removing the valuable parts, he said.