{"id":924169,"date":"2025-04-22T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=924169"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:57:56","slug":"fleecing-lg-and-samsung-sue-govt-over-e-waste-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/fleecing-lg-and-samsung-sue-govt-over-e-waste-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fleecing\u2019: LG and Samsung sue govt over e-waste policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean consumer electronics majors LG and Samsung have sued the Indian government over its electronic-waste management policy that they claim increases their recycling costs, joining the likes of Daikin, Havells and Voltas. <\/p>\n<p>In September last year, the Centre set a floor price that electronics makers must pay to recyclers. The rules mandate a minimum payment of Rs 22 per kg for consumer electronics and Rs 34 per kg for smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean consumer electronics majors LG and Samsung have sued the Indian government over its electronic-waste management policy that they claim increases their recycling costs, joining the likes of Daikin, Havells and Voltas. In September last year, the Centre set a floor price that electronics makers must pay to recyclers. The rules mandate a minimum payment of Rs 22 per kg for consumer electronics and Rs 34 per kg for smartphones.<\/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-924169","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\/924169","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=924169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}