Pune Senior Citizens Become Role Models

The senior citizen forum of Silver Coin Appartments, Dhayari in Pune, decided to celebrate the ensuing Diwali in a new way. The project is named Narakasur wadha, of course in a totally new form through clearing the e-waste and unwanted waste stored in their homes.

Space, a new problem: The demon Narakasur was first killed and then began the festival of lights, that is Deepawali. You all know that space is a problem in all households and offices, in all metros.

Charity begins at home: The space utilization program thus took its new birth. As the saying goes that charity begins at home, the senior citizens decided in their Wednesday weekly meeting that each member should take up cleaning their flat by removing unwanted waste stored by them.

Four days' deadline: Their first concentration was to give a call to keep e-waste, plastic waste and waste clothes, be kept in clean parking slots. The time given was four days and to the amazement of all, one dumper carried one ton of e-waste and plastic waste. The second ton of renewable clothes was sent in another pickup van.

Just 68 flats: Of course, Silver coin housing society has just sixty-eight flats. The imagination is running high in all minds as to what would be the next program to clear their living premises. Each flat has achieved its goal of space utilization now.

How many tons are to be cleared? The second point of running imagination is that if a small society could clear two tons of waste, how much may be lying in all housing societies of Pune city?

Not Municipality duty? The municipal authorities are firm to say that it is not their duty to collect and dispose of e-waste, plastic waste and waste clothes. Since it was a combined effort of all seniors aged 60 to 80, no individual name comes to the fore. The senior citizens thanked the company that does the recycling process of these waste materials. A big relief and consolation is their gain.

80 per cent not collected! Thanks to the foresightedness of the senior citizens belonging to the Silver Coin Appartments of Dhayari in Pune, they have tried their best to clear whatever possible from their homes. But, if you wish to ponder the national scenario it looks to be scarier as around 80 per cent of the country's e-waste is neither collected nor disposed of!

Only 22.7% collected: According to official figures, only 22.7% of the e-waste out of the total 10, 14, 961 tonnes generated during 2019-20 in the country was collected and treated. This proportion was 21.35 per cent in 2018-19 while it remained a mere 9.79 per cent in 2017-18.

A tsunami of e-waste: According to a report of NITI Aayog the use of electrical and electronic equipment has witnessed explosive growth just like the e-waste while the United Nations has termed this development as a tsunami of e-waste.

e-waste not part of the collection: Interestingly, e-waste does not feature in the list of municipal solid waste and is not mandatory to collect, treat or dispose of. The NITI Aayog report however lays emphasis on the urgent requirement to rethink the policy framework and recognise the civic bodies as key institutions to spearhead e-waste management.

-Manohar Yadavatti

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