The overwhelming majority of India’s end-of-life electronics is collected through informal scrap dealers, waste-pickers, and local aggregators due to their extensive last-mile reach and low collection costs. However, these informal collectors remain largely outside the formal recycling ecosystem under the E-Waste (Management) Rules 2022 EPR framework, causing hazardous crude dismantling, loss of critical raw materials (lithium, rare earths), and lack of formal financial recognition.
Develop a digital platform that integrates informal collectors and scrap aggregators into the formal e-waste recycling chain, providing transparent pricing, digital material tracking, and direct access to EPR credits.
Informal scrap collectors operate in cash, are semi-literate, fear taxation or regulatory harassment, and will reject complex bureaucratic apps; formal recyclers require rigorous batch provenance, purity certifications, and legal compliance.
A multilingual, voice-enabled mobile platform providing AI-assisted e-waste categorization and grading, localized real-time scrap market pricing, digital consignment tracking, instant UPI micro-settlements, and automated generation of CPCB-compliant EPR transaction records.