Understanding realities of E-Waste management in India - Part 1 | Ep. #86

<p>Today we’ll delve into the realities of e-waste management in India.</p> <p>I bring to you my conversation with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranshu-singhal-93562a7">Pranshu Singhal</a> who is on a relentless mission to enable setup of a well governed industry ecosystem for e-waste management in India.</p> <p>Pranshu founded <a href="https://www.karosambhav.com/our-services">Karo Sambhav</a> which is a cohesive movement for enterprises, consumers, governments and alliances to collaborate and enable circular economy.</p> <p>Their team empowers enterprises to close their material loops. set circularity goals, decode EPR compliances and create robust collection programmes.</p> <p>This year, Pranshu won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award; An award by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the sister organisation of the World Economic Forum, and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation.</p> <p>This conversation is a two part series, so make sure to listen to both ep. 86 &amp; 87 to be in sync &amp; to find out how we all can collectively make change happen.</p> <p>Notes:</p> <ol> <li>Can we enable setup of a well governed industry ecosystem for e-waste in India?</li> <li>Bcoz of Karo Sambhav the dialogues in our country have moved from Why should we collect e-waste? Why should we manage it? to How should we manage it?</li> <li>At first, we need to create better collection systems for varieties of waste by leveraging existing infrastructure. At present they are quite underutilized.</li> <li>We all need to be aware of the basic lifecycle of each products that we use on daily basis. Stakeholders who are managing the supply chain need to start thinking on what the reverse logistics for their products would look like once they reach their end of life?</li> </ol> <p>Today when you look at the market…to be precise the linear market, you can sense the expertise of the entire system to deliver efficiently on a forward supply chain. Isn’t it?</p> <p>On the contrary when we look at the market from the