Green Electronics

Green Electronics is much related to the management systems used by various companies to control the Waste of Electrical & Electronic Equipments.
Environment Management Systems (EMS) are tools used for managing the impacts of an organization's activities on the environment. It provides a structured approach to planning and implementing environment protection measures.

International Environmental Standards - ISO 14001 is a collection of voluntary standards that assists organizations to achieve environmental gains through the implementation of effective environmental management. The standards provide both a model for streamlining environmental management, and guidelines to ensure environmental issues are considered in an effective manner to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders involved namely the manufactures, the consumers and recyclers.

WEEE: Waste of Electrical & Electronic Equipments

Waste of Electrical & Electronic Equipment refers to the initiative that addresses the rapid increase in waste generation associated with EEE. The initiative primarily is tasked with reducing the amount of WEEE that is land disposed at the end of its useful life by encouraging reuse, recycling and separate collection. The amount of WEEE generated in the community has grown rapidly over the years. The content of hazardous waste in EEE that is being land disposed is a major concern world over. Unorganized collection and disposal leads to the imbalance in the sensitive equilibrium that our environment holds. The initiative covers the following Electrical & Electronic Equipment:

RoHS is the acronym for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. RoHS originated in the European Union and restricts the use of specific hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. The substances banned under RoHS are lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), hexavalent chromium (CrVI), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE). The directive applies to equipment as defined in the WEEE directive, with exceptions of Medical devices & Monitoring and control equipment.

Importance of the crossed wheeled bin logo

This symbol appearing in any product indicates that when the end-user wishes to discard this product, it must be sent to separate collection facilities for recovery and recycling.
By separating this product from other household-type waste, the volume of waste sent to incinerators or land-fills will be reduced and natural resources will thus be conserved.

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