How India wants to (literally) fix e-waste

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing types of rubbish on the planet. India, which is becoming ultra digital, is trying an old trick in new ways to deal with its growing and dangerous dump yards.

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Credits:
Author: Aditi Rajagopal
Camera: Dheeraj Aithal
Video Editors: David Jacobi, Aditi Rajagopal
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge, Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact-check: Jeannette Cwienk, Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read More (Links):

Right to Repair portal: https://righttorepairindia.gov.in/

Fixing Planned Obsolescence by Activating the Right to Repair in India: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Right to Repair in the EU: https://repair.eu/

Impacts of e-waste: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Cartoon on India’s repair culture: https://thelogicalindian.com/exclusiv...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:17 Haggling
02:47 Repair culture
04:18 Electronics graveyard
06:35 India's Right to Repair
08:04 The Kataria case
10:08 Progress elsewhere
11:22 Conclusion