India intros e-waste initiative
Cerebra recently opened the country's largest e-waste recycling facility in Bangalore. With this, Cerebra has begun the first phase of its e-waste management initiative which involves the separation of metals and non-metals, and the crushing of printed circuit boards in the mobile shredder. Cerebra plans to send the crushed boards to Singapore for further processing and raw material extraction.
The mobile shredder was released in Bangalore yesterday, according to Efy Times.
Cerebra's e-waste facility, which is coming up on a 10-acre facility, will be able to handle 90 000 tonnes of e-waste per annum.
This facility will be fully operational by September 2011, and will be able to recycle e-waste completely, which means it will be able to extract ferrous and non-ferrous metals, precious group metals like platinum, gold and silver, and plastic for fuel conversion in the third phase of its operations.
As per a report from the United Nations Environment Programme titled 'Recycling - from e-waste to resources', the e-waste produced could rise by as much as 500% over the next decade in countries like India.
Equity Bulls says Bangalore alone generates about 70 000 tonnes of e-waste in a year and accounts for about 30 000 obsolete computers.
The mobile shredder is capable of handling 3 600 tonnes of e-waste. This can be installed on a truck and taken to the premises of those companies wishing to process the e-waste in their campus to ensure copyright and data protection.
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