E-Waste stands for Electronic Waste and the companies in this sector are engaged in the effective management and recycling of obsolete, surplus, loosely discarded or broken electronics and electrical devices. Some of the examples of E-waste products are discarded mobile phones, computers, LCDs, electronic items, etc… that are thrown away by the owners. The decline in the cost of semiconductors and increase in the size of electronics industry has improved the chances of E-Waste by manifolds not only in India, but in other countries as well.

Every year millions of electronic items become obsolete and are thrown away thereby causing mountains of E-waste. If these wastes are not properly recycled, they might cause dangers to the environment and there are chances of wastage of previous materials that can be reused. E-wastes contain different materials like metals that can be recovered for future use. When these materials are recycled properly, wastage of reusable materials can be avoided and water, air population can be avoided. Some of the hazardous E-waste products are polyvinyl chloride, beryllium oxide, lead, cadmium, BFRs, sulphur, mercury and americium and these products can be dangerous to the environment. There are also non-hazardous e-waste materials like gold used in connector plating in computer equipment, zinc, lithium, nickel, silicon, germanium, iron, aluminum, copper and tin.

Therefore, effective management of e-waste is highly essential to prevent air and water pollution and this service is offered by several companies in India and the names of top companies that offer this service in India are given below:

Top three E-waste management & recycling companies in India:

• E-Parisaraa Private Limited

• Earth Sense Recycle Private Limited

• Trishyiraya Recycling India Private Limited

Some of the details regarding these top E-Waste management companies in India can be obtained from the content given below:

E-Parisaraa Private Limited:

E-Parisaraa is the first government authorized E-waste Management Company in India and they are in this service right from the year 2005. They are operating from the city of Bangalore and they have their recycling facility at Dabaspet Industrial Area in the Rural district of Bangalore in Karnataka. They are offering services like collection and inspection of e-waste upon paying the generator and they offer destruction certificate and destruction pictures (if requested) as a proof towards the electronic waste offered by their customers. In the case of destruction of computers with wide range of data, they ensure data security to their customers since they have possibilities of complete destruction of data tapes, degaussing and data wiping of the crucial data in the old computers of their customers.

Earth Sense Recycle Private Limited:

Earth Sense Recycle Private Limited is the joint venture between the E-Parisaraa Private Limited and M/S. GJ Multiclave India Private Limited, which is a bio-medical waste handling and management company. This company came into existence in the year 2000 and they recycle all types of e-wastes including de-bound assets and other electrical and electronic equipment that has become obsolete. Some of the e-waste products handled by them are floppies, toner cartridges, CDs, tube lights, batteries, CFL’s, etc…

Trishyiraya Recycling India Private Limited:

This company is operating from the city of Chennai and they are engaged in the management and recycling of various types of wastes like chemical waste, cable waste, electronic waste, electrical waste and telecommunication waste. They have a long list of clientele belonging to different sectors like electronic equipment manufacturing, automobile industries, mobile phone manufacturers, software companies, computer peripheral and computer manufacturers, telecommunication companies and electrical & electronic component exporters and manufacturers.

E-waste management and recycling is the order of the day and this is highly insisted by people with environment consciousness since many people have started realizing the hazard of E-waste these days. Therefore, these companies can be referred as green companies since they offer the best service of protecting the environment from e-waste.