HCL to spread awareness on safe disposal of e-Waste

HCL Infosystems Limited, has launched an World Environment Day campaign and planned an array of activities around e-waste disposal. The program will be rolled out across 505 "HCL Touch' centres spread over major metros and semi urban areas India. Through this initiative, HCL Infosystems will enable its "HCL Touch' centers across the country, to accept eWaste from its customers and put it in safe diposal process. Under this education campaign, HCL Infosystems will also encourage people to dispose-off defunct IT equipments such as computers, keyboard, scanner, printers etc in an environmental friendly way.

George Paul, Executive Vice President, HCL Infosystems said, "Today sustainability has to be acknowledged as a pivotal point in any organisation's growth. HCL Infosystems has led from the front with many first like ISO 14001, BFR and PVC free products including India's first PVC-free notebook launched this year. Adding to this, we became one of the very few companies in the world to commit to sustainable, environment friendly growth in our vision and mission statement. With this commitment, we have taken an initiative this week to make our employees, consumers and other stakeholders aware of e-waste management issue that is affecting us immensely in today's world. "

The company has planned host of activities like the awareness programme on how to reduce individual carbon footprint through educating people to dispose-off e-waste in a more responsible manner collaborating with dealers and distributor community. HCL Infosystems has installed one such programme at Nehru Place in New Delhi for general public.

Once the e-waste donor hands over the e-waste to HCL Touch representative, the representative will register the e-waste donor and gives an acknowledgement receipt after confirming the parity between e-waste declared in the form and actual e-waste brought.