ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Year : 2013, Volume : 3, Issue : 2
First page : ( 191) Last page : ( 200)
Online ISSN : 2231-5780.

Estimation of willingness to pay for electronic waste management – With special reference to Coimbatore

Mahima S.

PH.D, Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science And Higher Education For Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Online published on 20 June, 2013.

Abstract

The growing dependency on information technology, the fast rate of technological changes and better standard of living has lead to the rapid obsolescence rate of electronic equipments causing generation of e-waste. This e-waste finds its way into the hands of unauthorized scrap dealers and finally joins the waste stream causing human and environmental hazards. The electronic waste scrap is managed through various management alternatives such as reuse of equipment from second hand dealers, back yard recycling (manual dismantling and segregation into plastic, glass and metal) and finally into the municipal dumping yard. E-waste is an emerging problem as well as a business opportunity of increasing significance, given the volumes of e-waste being generated and the content of both toxic and valuable materials in them. The present study conducted in Coimbatore city of Tamil Nadu for estimating the willingness to pay for electronic waste management among the selected households. The study revealed that most of the respondents felt that proper recycling would reduce the hazardous effect of electronic waste. Hence the respondents choose recycling as a better method of reducing e-waste problem.

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Keywords

e-waste, hazardous, recycling, reuse, willingness to pay.

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