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Saturday, August 21, 2010

E-waste consignment seized at Chennai port, 5th in 3 months

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Thursday detected the fifth case of e-waste dumping in Chennai. On a tip-off, DRI intercepted a container full of old computer parts, imported from Brunei, at the Container Corporation of India godown at Tondiarpet.

In the last two months, DRI has intercepted five such consignments in Chennai and seized more than 127 tonnes of e-waste, which if dumped could pose serious health hazards to the public and damage to the environment through nickel, mercury and lead poisoning.

DRI officials said Chennai had become a dumping ground for e-waste from Australia, Korea, Canada and Brunei, where the cost of disposal and recycling is high. Many of these countries export their waste to developing countries in connivance with importers. This is then sold to small industries, which extract metals from the waste and dump the hazardous parts.

Late on Thursday, DRI sleuths intercepted a consignment marked for Venus Metals, Nanganallur, from Brunei. The consignment was declared as ‘switch board scrap’. On examination, officials found that the container had 166 used computer monitors, circuit boards, 89 control panels, loose electrical motor parts, broken computer printers and keyboards.

As per rules, the import of e-waste and electrical waste are covered under the Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008. Their import can be made only with the permission of the ministry of environment and health in addition to a licence from the Director-General of Foreign Trade. None of the five cases detected in Chennai had the relevant papers.

"The chartered engineers, who examined the consignments, reported that they contained goods which were non-functional. Even those which are reusable require extensive refurbishing, which would result in heavy e-waste generation,” DRI additional director general C Rajan said.

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