Yuvraj Bhardwaj, CEO and Founder of Petonic

India, a rapidly growing hub for electronics consumption, generated around 3.2 million tonnes of e-waste in 2019, ranking third globally, according to the Global E-Waste Monitor 2020. Despite this staggering figure, only a fraction of this waste—just 10% in 2018-19 and an even smaller 3.5% in 2017-18—was collected for recycling, as reported by the...