SDMC STARTS ONLINE FACILITY TO COLLECT E-WASTE

NEW DELHI: The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC ) has started an online facility to collect e-waste and ensure its scientific disposal. The civic agency has partnered with a private company to dispose of old and unserviceable IT equipment and other electronic items from offices, households, resident welfare associations (RWAS) and markets under the jurisdiction of the SDMC.

Municipal officials said that as per the agreement, the private firm will purchase e-waste from the citizens through tenders and will ensure its safe disposal. The e-waste will be collected on the basis of requests received on the online system.

“The ministry of environment, forest and climate change has notified the E-waste Management Rules, 2016, following which the SDMC has engaged a private firm, RBH E-waste Recycle Hub Pvt Ltd, on the basis of open tender... To ensure proper disposal, the corporation has launched an application https:// ewaste.mcdservices.online for submitting the online request for collecting e-waste. Citizens can raise the request on this portal and the vendor will collect the e-waste from their doorsteps as per approved rates of e-waste,” said an SDMC spokesperson.

“Currently, people sell e-waste to random scrap dealers, who either dispose them without any scientific procedure or sell them to other firms,” the official said.

Officials said SDMC has fixed rates for e-waste items and listed them on the civic body’s website.