Definition of E-Recycling:

a)      Authorization: permission for handling, collection, reception, storage, transportation, dismantling, recycling, treatment and disposal of e-waste under sub-rule (3) of rule (9)

b)      Collection Centre: a center established, individually, or jointly or a registered society or a designated agency or a company or an association to collect e-waste

c)       Dismantler:any person or registered society or a designated agency or a company or an association engaged in dismantling of used electrical and electronic equipment into their components.

d)      Disposal: any operation, which does not lead to recycling, recovery, or reuse and includes physio-chemical or biological treatment, incineration and deposition in secured landfill.

e)      Facility: any location wherein the process incidental to the collection, reception, storage, segregation, refurbishing, dismantling, recycling, treatment and disposal of e-waste are carried out.

f)       Recycler: any person who is engaged in recycling or reprocessing of used electrical and electronic equipment or assemblies or their component.

g)      Transporter: a person engaged in the off-site transportation of e-waste by air, rail, road or water.

h)      Schedule: schedules as appended in the e-waste Management and Handling rules May 2010.

For more information about any of the issues contained in this section, please contact Subha Niranjan:

Email: admin@elcita.in

Telephone: 080-4660 2222