Cerebra intros new e-waste recycling facility

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cerebra Integrated Technologies Limited on Monday launched a new e-waste cycling management activity with a mobile shredder imported from Singapore.

The new facility helps it separate metals, non-metals, and processing (crushing) of PCB in the mobile shredder. The crushed PCBs then will be sent back to Singapore for further processing and raw material extraction, said a press release.

The e-waste facility, which is coming up on a 10 acre facility, will be able to handle 90,000 MT of e-waste per annum. It will be able to extract ferrous/non-ferrous metals, precious group metals like platinum, gold and silver, and plastic for fuel conversion in the third phase of its operations, the press release added.

The mobile shredder, which can be installed on a truck and taken to premises of those companies wishing to process the e-waste in front of them to ensure copyright and data protection, is capable of handling 3600 tons of e-waste.

The company offers on site and off site services, and electronic waste destruction and recycling.

Gururaja K Upadhya, director, Technical Support, Cerebra said, "With the installation of the mobile shredder we have taken a major step in achieving our vision and objective of creating a cleaner and greener world. More and more corporates have green Initiatives as part of their CSR programs and this will give further fillip to the E-Waste management industry."

According to a report by UNEP, the amount of e-waste being produced could rise by as much as 500 per cent over the next decade in some countries such as India. Bangalore alone now generates about 70,000 tonnes of e-waste a year and accounts for about obsolete 30,000 computers.