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Pluss Polymers, a material research and manufacturing company, in association with Advit Foundation had arranged an environmental sustainability session at IKEA’s office, Gurgaon, on the occasion of World Environment Day. The session was based on electronic waste management and its impact on our health and environment with an emphasis on the need for its safe disposal.
“Considering the fact that our earth is turning into a dump zone, it is important for us to take up the responsibility of relieving nature of this dump. On this World Environment Day, we have taken up a social initiative to make the world a better place,” said Samit Jain, Managing Director, Pluss Polymers.
The session was conducted to enlighten the employees of IKEA on e-waste and its hazards with the anticipation that they will spread the message further in the community and will inspire others as well to engage in a collective drive to deal with the e-waste. Jain talked about the nature of e-waste, types of e-waste, e-waste scenario, where the e-waste ends up, and its impact on human health, why and how to recycle e-waste and challenges associated with recycling e-waste.
“We have been working with Advit Foundation to collect e-waste from across the city, and have set ourselves a collection target of 5,000 kg of e-waste for the year,” informed Jain.
Pluss Polymers erased 102 kgs of electronic-waste from its office and from the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park; the e-waste was later sent to a reputed and authorised recycler in Gurgaon.
The collection bins were placed in Pluss office and factory at Bawal. Since then the Pluss team has been actively scrounging their office drawers, home cabinets and surroundings for waste electronic items. The items included non-functional monitors, CPUs, keyboards, mouse, laptop, printer cartridges, UPS, printers, scanners, etc.
A similar e-waste bin was installed at the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park in Sector 29, Gurgaon. Main contributors towards disposing the e-waste were the residents from Gurgaon. They understood that instead of throwing off non-functional CDs, cassettes, cable wires, telephones sets, mobile phones, chargers, tube lights, batteries (lithium ion, alkaline) these can be put to better use by safe recycling.
“It is really important to educate people about their old chargers and CDs that are recyclable and can be reused. Bearing in mind the e-waste, we initiated this project of collecting and re-cycling e-waste and put it to a better use,” added Chandramouli, Programme Manager, Advit Foundation.
“Considering the fact that our earth is turning into a dump zone, it is important for us to take up the responsibility of relieving nature of this dump. On this World Environment Day, we have taken up a social initiative to make the world a better place,” said Samit Jain, Managing Director, Pluss Polymers.
The session was conducted to enlighten the employees of IKEA on e-waste and its hazards with the anticipation that they will spread the message further in the community and will inspire others as well to engage in a collective drive to deal with the e-waste. Jain talked about the nature of e-waste, types of e-waste, e-waste scenario, where the e-waste ends up, and its impact on human health, why and how to recycle e-waste and challenges associated with recycling e-waste.
“We have been working with Advit Foundation to collect e-waste from across the city, and have set ourselves a collection target of 5,000 kg of e-waste for the year,” informed Jain.
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Pluss Polymers erased 102 kgs of electronic-waste from its office and from the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park; the e-waste was later sent to a reputed and authorised recycler in Gurgaon.
The collection bins were placed in Pluss office and factory at Bawal. Since then the Pluss team has been actively scrounging their office drawers, home cabinets and surroundings for waste electronic items. The items included non-functional monitors, CPUs, keyboards, mouse, laptop, printer cartridges, UPS, printers, scanners, etc.
A similar e-waste bin was installed at the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park in Sector 29, Gurgaon. Main contributors towards disposing the e-waste were the residents from Gurgaon. They understood that instead of throwing off non-functional CDs, cassettes, cable wires, telephones sets, mobile phones, chargers, tube lights, batteries (lithium ion, alkaline) these can be put to better use by safe recycling.
“It is really important to educate people about their old chargers and CDs that are recyclable and can be reused. Bearing in mind the e-waste, we initiated this project of collecting and re-cycling e-waste and put it to a better use,” added Chandramouli, Programme Manager, Advit Foundation.