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India's billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.
The trucks rolled in one by one, full of electronic marvels now reduced to e-waste: Nokia, Itel, and Samsung smartphones; Sony and LG LCD screens; Tata air conditioners; Canon and Epson printers. In 2011, the government introduced a law that required manufacturers to dispose of their e-waste strictly with authorized dismantlers and collection centers, encouraging formal companies to emerge and effectively outlawing the informal industry. Recyclekaro’s warehouse looks like an electronics graveyard, but it’s tidy and relatively clean: great piles of Acer laptops, hard disks stacked atop each other like a Lego fort, and wires hanging out from a heap of keyboards.
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