{"id":976753,"date":"2025-11-27T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976753"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:31:54","slug":"in-delhis-e-waste-hub-indias-informal-workers-lose-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/27\/in-delhis-e-waste-hub-indias-informal-workers-lose-business\/","title":{"rendered":"In Delhi&#8217;s e-waste hub, India&#8217;s informal workers lose business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a dim room off a crowded alley in northeast Delhi, Shahjahan sits on the floor peeling wires with a knife. Her two children sort copper beside her, taking care to avoid tripping on scrap when they move across the room. <\/p>\n<p>She earns a few hundred rupees, or about $2, a day by breaking down discarded electronics brought in by small scrap dealers. <\/p>\n<p>But the supply of e-waste is thinning, and Shahjahan&#8217;s income is dwindling as more scrap moves to licensed plants on the edge of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a dim room off a crowded alley in northeast Delhi, Shahjahan sits on the floor peeling wires with a knife. Her two children sort copper beside her, taking care to avoid tripping on scrap when they move across the room. She earns a few hundred rupees, or about $2, a day by breaking down discarded electronics brought in by small scrap dealers. But the supply of e-waste is thinning, and Shahjahan&#8217;s income is dwindling as more scrap moves to licensed plants on the edge of the capital.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976753","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=976753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}