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Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India
Globally, E-waste is experiencing an unprecedented growth in the recent years. This growth will be fueled further by the COVID-19 pandemic owing to the new work culture where people are becoming more dependent on their electronic products than ever before. However, governance of E-waste, particularl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9898491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35141823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18836-5 |
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description | Globally, E-waste is experiencing an unprecedented growth in the recent years. This growth will be fueled further by the COVID-19 pandemic owing to the new work culture where people are becoming more dependent on their electronic products than ever before. However, governance of E-waste, particularly in the Global South, has been a complex phenomenon. Considering this, the current study attempted to assess the design, adoption, and implementation of E-waste policies in India—a major electronics manufacturing hub with a massive consumer electronics market. Taking hints from theoretical concepts such as policy transfer, policy convergence, and policy effectiveness, the study addressed the primary research question: why India adopts E-waste policy approaches that seem inadequate and ineffective in its local contexts and attempts to identify alternative approaches. Through expert interviews and policy document analysis, it was observed that E-waste policy approaches in India are largely influenced by the European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. All the experts interviewed recognized absence of the informal sector in India’s policy efforts of both 2011 and 2016 as a significant lacuna in the country’s E-waste policy responses. In this paper, the author argues that there should be policy change towards a healthy collaboration between the informal and formal sector where best-of-the-two-worlds could be wisely used for sustainable E-waste governance in India. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] |
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spelling | pubmed-98984912023-02-06 Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India Borthakur, Anwesha Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Effective Waste Management with Emphasis on Circular Economy Globally, E-waste is experiencing an unprecedented growth in the recent years. This growth will be fueled further by the COVID-19 pandemic owing to the new work culture where people are becoming more dependent on their electronic products than ever before. However, governance of E-waste, particularly in the Global South, has been a complex phenomenon. Considering this, the current study attempted to assess the design, adoption, and implementation of E-waste policies in India—a major electronics manufacturing hub with a massive consumer electronics market. Taking hints from theoretical concepts such as policy transfer, policy convergence, and policy effectiveness, the study addressed the primary research question: why India adopts E-waste policy approaches that seem inadequate and ineffective in its local contexts and attempts to identify alternative approaches. Through expert interviews and policy document analysis, it was observed that E-waste policy approaches in India are largely influenced by the European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. All the experts interviewed recognized absence of the informal sector in India’s policy efforts of both 2011 and 2016 as a significant lacuna in the country’s E-waste policy responses. In this paper, the author argues that there should be policy change towards a healthy collaboration between the informal and formal sector where best-of-the-two-worlds could be wisely used for sustainable E-waste governance in India. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-02-09 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9898491/ /pubmed/35141823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18836-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Effective Waste Management with Emphasis on Circular Economy Borthakur, Anwesha Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India |
title | Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India |
title_full | Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India |
title_fullStr | Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India |
title_short | Design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in India |
title_sort | design, adoption and implementation of electronic waste policies in india |
topic | Effective Waste Management with Emphasis on Circular Economy |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9898491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35141823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18836-5 |
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