Electronics Manufacturing: Eying sustainability, IT Min floats paper to replace linear system with circular

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has floated a policy paper that intends to replace the current linear system of ‘take-make-dispose’ in the electrical and electronics manufacturing sector with a circular economy one.

The circular economy system, instead of extracting materials, uses a superior methodology of extracting the maximum value of electrical and electronic products by reusing, repairing, recovering, re-manufacturing and regenerating products and materials at the end of each service value.

“It serves as an alternative to current model of highly extractive and resource-intensive linear economy, and aims at maintaining and retaining value of resources, products and materials at their highest by keeping them in use as long as possible,” MeitY said in its policy paper.