Nagercoil Corporation steps up e-waste collection efforts

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College students participate in e-waste collection drive conducted by Nagercoil Corporation. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

As part of its efforts to ensure proper disposal of e-waste, Nagercoil Corporation is conducting a collection drive across all schools and colleges in all 52 wards of the city.

The initiative will be held on the 15th of every month at government and private schools and colleges within the Corporation limits. The drive aims to create awareness of safe handling, segregation, collection and scientific disposal of electronic waste among the younger generation.

According to a Corporation official, school and college students actively participate in the drive by bringing unused and discarded electronic items from their homes. Items such as mobile phones, chargers, computers, keyboards, batteries, electronic accessories and other discarded electrical and electronic equipment were collected during the drive held last week. More than two tonnes of e-waste materials were collected from across the Corporation limits.

The collected e-waste will be transferred to the Material Recovery Facility at Valampurivilai dumping yard. Once the collected material reaches a certain volume, the Corporation will invite tenders from traders for its sale, the official added.

In the drive held last week, S.T. Hindu College deposited 375 kg of e-waste, Pioneer Schools 175 kg, Sivaram Nursery and Primary School 59 kg and Government Polytechnic College 56.5 kg. The top performers were selected from each zone of the Corporation.

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