{"id":850754,"date":"2024-09-02T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T03:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=850754"},"modified":"2024-09-02T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T03:24:57","slug":"e-waste-cash-rich-but-challenges-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/02\/e-waste-cash-rich-but-challenges-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"E-waste: Cash rich, but challenges galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic waste (e-waste) management firms are grappling with a unique duality in their business. While the segment is seeing a positive funding sentiment thanks to the regulatory tailwinds on the one hand, it is dealing with challenges money cannot solve permanently on the other hand.<\/p>\n<p>Various e-waste management firms that FE spoke to pointed out that given the nascent state of the sector and the need for rapid scaling up in the processing of e-waste, the main challenge is to find viable and sustainable solutions to issues like reverse logistics and safety. According to industry executives, companies in the sector have raised around $100 million in the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic waste (e-waste) management firms are grappling with a unique duality in their business. While the segment is seeing a positive funding sentiment thanks to the regulatory tailwinds on the one hand, it is dealing with challenges money cannot solve permanently on the other hand. Various e-waste management firms that FE spoke to pointed out that given the nascent state of the sector and the need for rapid scaling up in the processing of e-waste, the main challenge is to find viable and sustainable solutions to issues like reverse logistics and safety. According to industry executives, companies in the sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}