E-Waste collection is an important task required for the sustainability of the environment. It is the collection of old electronic products like refrigerators, TVs, computers and other electronic devices. The tasks an E-Waste Collector is expected to perform include not only collecting e-waste from retailers, repair shops and other unorganised stakeholders but disposing of these in an environmental friendly process. They are responsible for promoting the importance of e-waste management in the society and creating awareness about the ill effects of improper handling of e-waste. They are also responsible for packaging the e-waste, labelling and maintaining logs about transportation and finally transporting the collected e-waste to the central warehouse.
Personal Competencies
You have good communication skills
You are interested in the environment
You are comfortable working in a team
You like to try new things to do
Entry Pathway
Minimum Qualification • After completing class 8 and being minimum 18 years old you can enrol for National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF)* level 3 E-Waste Collector course.
* NSQF is a nationally integrated education and competency-based framework that enables persons to acquire desired competency levels in a chosen field. NSQF includes vocational education, vocational training, general education and technical education which prepares an individual for the job market with competent skills. An individual may return at any time to upgrade skills after gaining experience
• National Scholarship Portal - Please visit http://www.scholarships.gov.in. Under this portal there are Central Government schemes offered by different Departments, UGC/AICTE Schemes and State Schemes.*
• Please visit http://www.buddy4study.com for details on available scholarships. This is a gateway to scholarships starting from Class XI
*(Availability of these scholarships can vary from time to time)
Where will you work?
Places of Work: E-Waste collecting companies across India
Work Environment: You will be working for 8/9 hours per day and for 6 days per week.
When Karo Sambhav first started to spread the concept of responsible recycling some scrap merchants–known as aggregators–simply shut their doors. Being able to build confidence was crucial so a few of the organization’s field staff moved into homes in neighbourhoods where aggregators lived—like Seelampur in New Delhi or Kurla in Mumbai, India’s financial capital. Eventually relationships were formed. Suhaib Malik is a third-generation aggregator, one of the hundreds based in Mustafabad. His father and grandfather traded in scrap iron for decades. The 26-year-old ventured into the unknown, but promising, e-waste sector in 2018 when he heard how others were making a lot more money by switching. Now he is expanding his operation further by doing business sustainably with Karo Sambhav. Working conditions in his shop and his financial bottom-line have improved. “We don't even have to break down the keyboards anymore,” he says. “We just hand them over as is.” This exempts his workers from hours of harmful labour dealing with toxic waste. Now, every couple of weeks a truck drives in to weigh the electronics and pack them neatly into bar-coded gunnysacks to be taken to certified responsible recyclers. Steady demand from this new customer means “business has improved a lot,” notes Malik, whose shop has defunct CPUs and keyboards stacked outside. He sources e-waste from about 100 smaller dealers in New Delhi, as well as eastern Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal some 1,000 miles away.*
E- Waste Collector
NCS Code: 9611.0201 | V047Minimum Qualification
• After completing class 8 and being minimum 18 years old you can enrol for National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF)* level 3 E-Waste Collector course.
* NSQF is a nationally integrated education and competency-based framework that enables persons to acquire desired competency levels in a chosen field. NSQF includes vocational education, vocational training, general education and technical education which prepares an individual for the job market with competent skills. An individual may return at any time to upgrade skills after gaining experience
Government Institutes
1. National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC): Visit https://www.nsdcindia.org/find-nsdc-training-centre
2. Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS): Visit https://nsdcindia.org/find-nsdc-training-centre-jss/
3. NIOS training centres: Visit https://voc.nios.ac.in/registration/locate-study-centre
4. List of NSQF centres: https://www.aicte-india.org/sites/default/files/Vocational%20institutions%20272%20recommended%20AY%202020-21.pdf
• A majority of government schemes are free
Scholarships
• National Scholarship Portal - Please visit http://www.scholarships.gov.in. Under this portal there are Central Government schemes offered by different Departments, UGC/AICTE Schemes and State Schemes.*
• Please visit http://www.buddy4study.com for details on available scholarships. This is a gateway to scholarships starting from Class XI
*(Availability of these scholarships can vary from time to time)
Places of Work: E-Waste collecting companies across India
Work Environment: You will be working for 8/9 hours per day and for 6 days per week.
E-Waste Helper → E-Waste Collector → E-Waste Manager
The average e-waste collector gross salary in India is INR 20,000 per month.
Source - https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/garbage-collector/india
*These figures are indicative and subject to change
Experts from the field
When Karo Sambhav first started to spread the concept of responsible recycling some scrap merchants–known as aggregators–simply shut their doors. Being able to build confidence was crucial so a few of the organization’s field staff moved into homes in neighbourhoods where aggregators lived—like Seelampur in New Delhi or Kurla in Mumbai, India’s financial capital. Eventually relationships were formed. Suhaib Malik is a third-generation aggregator, one of the hundreds based in Mustafabad. His father and grandfather traded in scrap iron for decades. The 26-year-old ventured into the unknown, but promising, e-waste sector in 2018 when he heard how others were making a lot more money by switching. Now he is expanding his operation further by doing business sustainably with Karo Sambhav. Working conditions in his shop and his financial bottom-line have improved. “We don't even have to break down the keyboards anymore,” he says. “We just hand them over as is.” This exempts his workers from hours of harmful labour dealing with toxic waste. Now, every couple of weeks a truck drives in to weigh the electronics and pack them neatly into bar-coded gunnysacks to be taken to certified responsible recyclers. Steady demand from this new customer means “business has improved a lot,” notes Malik, whose shop has defunct CPUs and keyboards stacked outside. He sources e-waste from about 100 smaller dealers in New Delhi, as well as eastern Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal some 1,000 miles away.*
Source - https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/features/karo-sambhav-responsible-e-waste-recycling-india/
* The above information is for training purposes only and will not be used for any commercial gains
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