SATURDAY, MAY 04, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The government has initiated process to set up State’s first E-Waste Treatment Facility, which will come up at Pissurlem Industrial Estate. The facility will be developed on public private partnership (PPP) basis.
The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has floated e-tender seeking bids from service providers to establish the E-Waste Management Facility.
Around 85 per cent of Goa’s e-waste is made up of household appliances and personal devices, as per GWMC survey conducted last year. The e-waste is leading to disposal through scrap dealers and buy back mechanism in the absence of a system for collection, storage and recycling of such waste.
As per the e-tender, the Development, Operation and Maintenance of the E-Waste Management Facility is proposed to be done through Public Private Partnership (PPP) on a Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis, where in the complete plant infrastructure will be implemented by the Concessionaire along with operations and maintenance for a period of 15 years.
The Concessionaire is also expected to set up mobile and web presence to facilitate collection of all types of electronic waste from the computers and mobiles to refrigerators and washing machines.
All the e-waste, which is being accumulated at various scrapyards in the State, would be treated here in addition to waste collected through mobile e-waste collection vans.
GCWM survey had claimed that the household appliances contribute to around 57 per cent of the e-waste generated in the State, while personal devices account for 30 per cent of the e-waste.
