History of SWM Activities
Workshop on Biomedical Waste Management
Workshop on Biomedical Waste Management was organized in collaboration with Toxics Link, an environmental NGO and WHO-India has organized a state level workshop on “Bio-medical Waste Management and Mercury Phase-out from the Healthcare Sector in Assam”on 12th October, 2011 at Hotel Brahmaputra Ashoka, Guwahati, Assam.
The sessions were presided over by Mr. H. K. Karforma, Additional Director, Central Pollution Control Board, Shillong. The other dignitaries present were Captain Robin Bordoloi, Hon’ble Chairman, GMDA; Shri Satish Sinha, Associate Director, Toxics Link; Mrs. Juri Sharma Bordoloi, Hon’ble Deputy Chairman, GMDA and Shri Amarjyoti Kashyap, President, ENVIRON.
School Awareness Programme on Electronic Waste Management
Background of the programme:
Electronic Waste has posed a serious threat in the state along with rest of the country. With ever increasing items of modern lifestyle, the number of E-waste generated has also increased manifold. Peoples’ dependence on electric items resulted in the generation of lots of E-Waste throughout the state. Due to lack of a proper mechanism for their disposal, the harmful chemicals that these discarded products contain are released to the environment. General public is also not very much concern about the ill effects of electronic waste and they show very little interest for safe disposal of these products. Now, a time has come where electronic waste constitutes a major part both in household and other establishment.
The project was sponsored by Just Environment Charitable Trust, Delhi with the financial aid from NOKIA. Activities were performed in Guwahati and Nogaon of Assam and Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh which was started from April, 2012 and ended on November, 2012.
