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Bangalore, April 23

The Bangalore-based WeP Peripherals, in association with Saahas, an NGO, on Monday launched a citizen's programme to address e-waste issues. In the last one year, an extensive network comprising 49 collection centres have been established in the city. E-waste includes batteries, CDs, floppies, computer peripherals, consumables, electrical appliances, phones etc. Users can now bypass the scrap collector and dispose of their e-waste at any of the specified collection centres. The e-waste will be collected on a monthly basis and sent to E-Parisaraa, the country's first authorised recycling unit for e-waste. "e-waste recycling has become an environmental need in India with the rise in IT companies but I am not happy with the response as they are not co-operating," said Dr Sharat Chandra, Chairman, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board.

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