: Brothers Extract Gold Silver From E-Waste, Save 100000 Metric Tonnes Of Carbon #IndiaNEWS #Recycling A common phrase says ‘curiosity killed the cat’, but in the case of brothers Rohan and Nitin

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Brothers Extract Gold Silver From E-Waste, Save 100000 Metric Tonnes Of Carbon #IndiaNEWS #Recycling
A common phrase says ‘curiosity killed the cat’, but in the case of brothers Rohan and Nitin Gupta, it did quite the opposite. Here, curiosity led to a life-changing development, which further snowballed into a premium e-waste company, Attero Recycling.  
In the year 2007, Nitin and Rohan were looking for an electronic waste (e-waste) recycler to discard an old laptop. Unable to find one, the duo began Googling safe ways to dispose of the laptop.  
However, they failed to find an effective solution that didn’t incinerate or burn the waste. Could there be other options available? 
Nitin (left) and Rohan (right), founders of Attero Recycling
A few months of research into this led to the co-founding of Attero Recycling to provide end-to-end recycling solutions to electronic scrap such as television sets, computer monitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, cables, circuit boards, lamps, calculators, phones, answering machines, DVDs, etc.  
Nitin, a B-tech degree holder from IIT-D and an alumnus of NYU’s Stern School of Business and Rohan, a BE graduate in Chemical engineering from REC Jaipur, channelised their expertise into developing a unique recycling process, which is a mix of mechanical and hydrometallurgical technologies that can extract 98% of metals from e-waste. They do this while ensuring low carbon dioxide emissions. The recovered metals include gold, silver, copper, tin, aluminium lithium, cobalt, manganese and nickel.  
Predicting the e-waste ‘tsunami’ 
Representational Image (Source: Facebook/Saahas)
With 48. 5 million tonnes of e-waste generated across the world till 2018, the United Nations warned of an e-waste tsunami that is likely to come if stern measures are not taken to tackle the waste stream.  
At present, only 20% of it is globally recycled.  
To put things into perspective, the report said, “Imagine the mass of 125,000 jumbo jets — it would take London’s Heathrow Airport up to six months to clear that many aircraft from its runaways. If you find it difficult to envisage, then try the mass of 4,500 Eiffel Towers, jam them all in one space, side by side, and they would cover an area the size of Manhattan. �
When light is shed on India’s recycling capacity, the picture is not too hopeful either. We recycle only 2% of waste electronics, and that too, not in a very effective manner.
Players in the informal sector either burn the plastics to extract metals, incinerate or acid leach in dangerous conditions.  
The recovery rate of metals is dismal, which is ironic given that e-waste is valued at . 5 billion annually, which is three times higher than the output of all the world’s silver mines, the same UN report underlines.

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