New Delhi : Sporting a new Mobile phone may be fashioned in these well connected times, but the discarded old handset could poison the environment as a whopping 8000 Tonnes of Cellphone waste is eliminated to burden the earth by 2012. As per a white paper by Global Consultancy Deloitee, There is a growing need to better manage the rising cell phone waste as it is posing a threat to Environment.
Replacament Sales predict that more cellphones would be retired every year with rapid changes in Technology and Product design discouraging mobile repairs and increasing demand for new mobiles abd disposal of old ones
" With the absence of proper recycle and reuse program about 8000 tonnes of toxic cell phone components are estimated to be dumped into land fills by 2012"
The resulting contanimation will have far reaching consequences for the environment and all living biegns". Said Parag Saigaonkar, Regional MD, Deloitte Consulting India.
Source : HT, Press Trust Of India
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