E-waste removal from Kerala schools has begun with about 12,500 kg being disposed statewide on a single day under a programme aiming to clear accumulated junk, reportedly estimated at over one crore kg.
Education Minister Professor C Raveendranath flagged off the first vehicle with e-waste from a school here yesterday under the programme jointly initiated by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), formerly IT@School project and Clean Kerala Company for scientific processing.
It is aimed at disposing e-Waste such as desktop computers, CRT monitors, laptops, disk drives, printers, UPS, camera, speaker system, television, network components and generators from 10,000 odd schools and educational offices in the state.
A total of 12,500 kg of e-waste was disposed yesterday through this drive, it said.
Instead of simply disposing e-Waste as garbage which creates environmental issues, scientific methods are used to recycle and refurbish them as per the central government norms.
KITE has undertaken an online survey to capture the quantity of e-waste in each school and to collect them as batches and this exercise was completed by July 15.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Education Minister Professor C Raveendranath flagged off the first vehicle with e-waste from a school here yesterday under the programme jointly initiated by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), formerly IT@School project and Clean Kerala Company for scientific processing.
It is aimed at disposing e-Waste such as desktop computers, CRT monitors, laptops, disk drives, printers, UPS, camera, speaker system, television, network components and generators from 10,000 odd schools and educational offices in the state.
A total of 12,500 kg of e-waste was disposed yesterday through this drive, it said.
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Instead of simply disposing e-Waste as garbage which creates environmental issues, scientific methods are used to recycle and refurbish them as per the central government norms.
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KITE has undertaken an online survey to capture the quantity of e-waste in each school and to collect them as batches and this exercise was completed by July 15.
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(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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