ABSTRACT
This chapter encompasses pan-Indian initiatives for dealing with e-waste management, ranging from building knowledge base through research and social action by different stakeholders to technological and legal advancements, and industrial initiatives. All these initiatives are organised on time scale, in a manner, to capture every initiative in its context with its evolutionary journey. The chapter is divided into two sections: the first section covers the period of 2001–2012, until the Rules, 2011 were enforced in May 2012; and the second section elaborates on law driven implementation, post-2012. Throughout the chapter, role played by different Indian actors – government agencies, industry actors, non-government agencies, research institutions, and the judiciary – and how each one interacted with bi-lateral, multilateral and international actors/agencies on individual or collective basis is mapped out. The initiatives include measures awareness raising; educational initiatives; conducting research on various topics, such as, formal-informal partnership, gap analysis in e-waste management based on multi-stakeholder views, etc; preparing roadmap for the Agenda 2030; experimentation for resource efficiency, and working out its economics as part of CE and bringing in standardisation; and launching academic courses on e-waste management.
