Tiered Incentivization-Based E-Waste Management Standards

Developing a standard and certification process to efficiently process e-waste is the need of the hour. This paper identifies a few but effective requirements, which need to be incorporated into the sustainability standards developed by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and other national bodies such as British Standards Institution (BSI) and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Customized incentivization for the identified several players in the electronics manufacturing ecosystem such as PC manufacturing ecosystem is identified and the rationale for such customized incentivization and its probable impact on an efficient e-waste processing is discussed. Further, a graded standard e-waste processing matrix is provided to encourage deeper and broader adaptation of such e-waste processes.