Zero-emission technology to manage and recycle E-waste
New Delhi, Mar 02 (India Science Wire): India is the third-largest producer of e-waste and has
generated 3.23 MMT E-waste in 2019 alone. Paltry e-waste management makes the situation
even more challenging.
Notably, e-waste contains several toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, chromium, brominated
flame retardants, or polychlorinated biphenyls. Therefore, unregulated accumulation, landfilling,
or inappropriate recycling processes poses a severe threat to human health and the
environment.
On the contrary, e-waste can also be considered an “Urban Mine” for metal recovery and energy
production. Led by Professor K.K. Pant, his research group in the Catalytic Reaction Engineering
Laboratory at Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi, has
developed...