electronic waste

Hulladek Recycling began with a simple idea: treat e-waste not as junk, but as a responsibility. Over the years, they’ve helped divert 15 million kg of electronic waste from landfills while quietly building awareness in schools, homes, and offices across India. Their work is slow, steady, and deeply necessary.

Ravi Neeladri, CEO of Bengaluru-based Cerebra Green, speaks of how they were once generators of e-waste but leveraged technology to operate on a circular economy model and find a solution.

Nitin and Rohan Gupta launched Attero Recycling in 2007, and use a mix of mechanical and hydrometallurgical technologies to extract 98% metals like gold and silver from e-waste. On International E-Waste Day, we take a look at how these brothers are tackling the e-waste tsunami in an eco-friendly and sustainable way.

Please note. This story has been updated.

By 2050, India will need a landfill that's the size of Delhi to dump all its waste. We need to act now. #CleanIndia

Trash isn’t trash. It is raw material for the next line of products. And we are glad some folks are getting it and making it happen!

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Spearheaded by the students of Anjuman-I-Islam A A Khatkhatay English secondary school in Vashi, this unique e-waste management initiative has been christened ‘Contribute your E-waste to educate a child’.

Bengaluru is the third largest e-waste producer in India after Mumbai and Delhi. It generates 37,000 metric tonnes of electronic waste every year.