State’s 1st Integrated Resource Recovery Park coming up at Tholai near Jaipur

Jaipur: With electronic waste fast emerging as one of the biggest contributors to pollution, the state forest and environment department is all set to lay the foundation stone of Integrated Resource Recovery Park spread over 48 ha area in Tholai, Janwaramgarh, Jaipur on June 5, also celebrated as World Environment Day.This will be the first such park in the state and will encourage the setting up of waste processing units. Shikhar Agrawal, additional chief secretary, forest and environment, tweeted, “It will have 100 plots ranging from 1,000 sq m to 10,000 sq m. These plots will be mainly provided to set up units wanting to process various types of wastes like e-waste, plastic waste, end of life vehicles and old-batteries, etc.”The state forest and environment department in the recent draft of Rajasthan Electronic Waste Disposal Policy 2022 had proposed to set up an integrated recycling park, which will be responsible for recycling, refurbishing and dismantling of electronic waste in the state.The draft proposal reads, “The state will consider giving a package in addition to RIPS-2019 to the e-waste recycling units established in the park.”An official said, the state will also take steps to facilitate channelisation of e-waste generated within the state to the recycling park. “The Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) will also support mobile-based e-waste collection platform by providing funding under the start-up policy. The constant technology advancements and frequent introduction of new electronic products makes consumers switches their existing models. This decreases the life cycle of these goods while exponentially increasing e-waste generation,” he saidExperts explained electronic waste can be broadly described as discarded, surplus, obsolete, broken, electrical or electronic devices. It includes all such waste from electronic and electrical appliances that have reached their end-of-life period or are unfit for their original intended use and are meant for recovery, recycling or disposal. Categorised as hazardous and non-hazardous, e-waste includes ferrous and non-ferrous metals like copper, aluminium, silver, gold, platinum, palladium, etc, plastics, glass, wood and plywood, printed circuit boards, concrete, ceramics and rubber.
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