{"id":948221,"date":"2025-07-21T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948221"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:09:23","slug":"6-billion-e-waste-goldmine-can-india-turn-its-digital-dumping-crisis-into-an-economic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/21\/6-billion-e-waste-goldmine-can-india-turn-its-digital-dumping-crisis-into-an-economic-win\/","title":{"rendered":"$6-billion e-waste goldmine: Can India turn its digital dumping crisis into an economic win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August last year, data presented in Rajya Sabha revealed that the proportion of e-waste recycled in India rose from 22% in 2019-20 to 43% in 2023-24. While the numbers show progress, approximately 57% of e-waste\u2014equivalent to 990,000 metric tonne (MT)\u2014remains unprocessed in the country. This presents a significant economic opportunity in recycling\u2014a $6-billion market in recoverable metals, as per reports\u2014even as the growing e-waste crisis continues to pose a serious environmental and health challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August last year, data presented in Rajya Sabha revealed that the proportion of e-waste recycled in India rose from 22% in 2019-20 to 43% in 2023-24. While the numbers show progress, approximately 57% of e-waste\u2014equivalent to 990,000 metric tonne (MT)\u2014remains unprocessed in the country. This presents a significant economic opportunity in recycling\u2014a $6-billion market in recoverable metals, as per reports\u2014even as the growing e-waste crisis continues to pose a serious environmental and health challenge.<\/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-948221","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\/948221","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=948221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}