Electronic Waste Management

 

Plutous takes immense pride in its growth and successful performance till date, which can be directly attributed to our customer’s satisfaction and confidence in our services. The company’s goal is to become a world-class recycling services and solutions, which helps our mother earth to harvest the maximum resource recovery. E- Parisaraa’s success has also been based on a resourceful combination of technological innovation, professionalism and commitment to excellence by all the employees.

Plutous provides Electronic-Waste collection and disposal services to its customers who are IT majors, Public sectors, NGO’s etc. We also have written agreements with our customers and have been approved by the EHS audits conducted by our customers and their counter parts from abroad.

Plutous is engaged in handling, recycling and reusing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment(WEEE) in eco friendly way. The initiative is to aim at reducing the accumulation of used and discarded electronic and electrical equipments, which mostly end up in landfills or partly recycled in a unhygienic conditions by backyard recyclers and then partly thrown into waste streams damaging the environment. The objective of Plutous is to create an opportunity to transfer waste into socially and industrially beneficial raw materials like valuable metals, plastics and glass using simple, cost efficient, home grown, environmental friendly technologies suitable to Indian Conditions.

Our Services

' Inspects and Collects e-waste upon paying the generator.
' Provides logistics support.
' Destruction, defacing service for Custom debonding and IPR (Intellectual Property Right) protection.
' Data Security : Plutous is more concerned about customer’s data. We have all the possibilities of data wiping and degaussing ' of hard disks, data tapes etc along with complete destruction of materials compared to our customers. Data Wiping, Degaussing, Destruction certificate will be provided to customers along with the pictures of the same (upon request), according to their E-Waste Materials and requirements respectively.
' A Destruction certificate and destruction pictures (in case of request) is provided as proof of material destruction.
' Guide customers on legal procedures.

Our Process of converting a Product Waste into Raw material includes :

- Manual Dismantling
- Hands on Segregation
- Shredding and
- Density Separation

At Plutous by adopting the above mentioned techniques, we convert Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipments into raw materials like Metals, Plastics and Glass. This is how a Product Waste becomes raw material at Plutous.

The Entire system of recycling is based on the principles of clean environment and minimum landfill.

Our Bench Mark of recycling is to recycle E-Waste to about 99% and 1% hazardous materials which cannot be further recycled or reused goes for scientific and secure landfill to adjacent Treatment and Disposal Facility, to which Plutous is already a member.


Other processes in Plutous

Toner cartridge dismantling
Gold recovery from Printed Circuit Board strips & components
Silver recovery from silver coated components
Circuit for reusing fused CFLs
Printed Circuit Boards are shredded to 1.5” X1.5” size and exported to Belgium for smelting

Policies of Plutous are Non- incineration disposal methods and minimum landfill to fulfill all compliance and requirements.

We recycle E-Waste in the most environmentally friendly manner and adhere to minimum landfill policy.

Vision Statement :

To become a world-class facility and provide top-class services and solutions for E- Waste recycling, to help mother earth to harvest maximum resources.
Our Environment Health and Safety Policy

Plutous management believes that the approaches towards protecting environment, securing health and ensuring safety of its employees are of utmost significance. We are totally dedicated and committed to conduct e-waste management in an environmentally responsible manner with good health and safety practices and thereby conserving the environment and making safe, healthy and accident free work place.

We aim to :

Become a centre of excellence for electronic waste recycling
Recover maximum resources from electronic waste and minimize landfill
Adopt cleaner technologies and best practices and strive for continual improvement
Adopt measures for the prevention of air, water & soil pollution
Provide safe and healthy working conditions to all persons working under the control of our organization by providing adequate facilities.
Committed to prevent injury and ill health and strive for continual improvement in overall occupational health & safety performance.
Comply with all applicable Environmental and Health and Safety legislation and other requirement.
Equip the employees with the information, instruction, training supervision and proper PPEs to ensure Environment awareness and also their health and safety.
Conduct audits, mock drills and periodic health monitoring to ensure compliance with Health & Safety management requirement.

This policy will be communicated to all the persons working under the control of organizations, interested parties and shall be regularly reviewed.

Our Mission

We consider E-Waste not as waste, but a resource for recovery in an environmental friendly manner to protect environment.

Our motto is 3 R’s Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, through continuous implementations and innovations in recycling technology.

Our country needs simpler cost effective technologies with maximum resource recovery of metals, plastic and glass by recycling electronic waste in environmental friendly way.

Plutous has taken lot of steps and measures for conservation of natural resource like Energy, water etc. We have been using solar power for charging of batteries used in dismantling tools.

Rain water is used for gardening.

Moreover our facility building is constructed eco friendly with cost efficiency :

Soil stabilized bricks made at site without the use of burnt bricks.
Granite dust used as a substitute for river sand.
Granite polishing dust used for refilling the plinth.
Waste carbide lime is used for white washing.
Light weight thermocol (Blown poly- styrene) concrete blocks for roofing which reduces consumption of steel and concrete, also gives sound insulation, thermal insulation etc.
Scrap metal sheets from CPU cabinets are used for gates.
Unused obsolete PCBs are used as laminates for doors.

Value Statement :

Plutous's leadership is found in innovative and in-house developed technologies suitable to Indian conditions, sound management of E-Waste and hazardous materials with 99% recycling efficiency. We add value to waste materials.
We take responsibility for E-Waste recycling and disposal. We have a bench mark of 99% recycling. Our services will be "best in class" with respect to collection and disposal of E-Waste. We deliver excellent services and strive for continuous improvement and respond vigorously to changes.
Plutous considers E-Waste as a Geological friend of 21st century for urban mining of resources to the maximum and minimum landfill and pollution. We are committed to protect and save environment. We value environment and mother Earth.
We are also employee focused. We value their skill, hard work, honesty and integrity. We respect our employees and cares for them by saying safety first, work next.
We respect our customers and are dedicated to serve them, at all times. We strive to reach customers expectations with our services. We respect our customers and serve them to their satisfaction. We work hand in hand with our customers and enjoy working together as a team, helping each other for sustainable growth of the company.
We consider our downstream vendors as important as our customers. We work with them and also help them to upgrade their processes, system requirements to meet our compliances.


Top 7 Benefits of Recycling :

Recycling Helps Protect the Environment

Recycling Helps Conserve Limited Resources

Recycling Promotes Energy Efficiency

Recycling Helps Build A Strong Economy

Recycling Creates Jobs

Recycling Builds Community

Recycling Can Be Financially Rewarding

Recycling is a process - a series of activities, if you will, that includes: the collection and sorting of waste materials, the processing of these materials to produce brand new products, and the purchase and use of these new products by consumers.

Recycling is more optimized and efficient if we practice the three R's of waste management: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.

Reducing waste that otherwise get's carted off to the recycling centers or landfills is achieved through an intentional decrease in our purchases and consumption,composting of organic waste, and flat refusal to use disposable items like polystyrene and plastic bags. Reusing materials serve to lengthen a particular item's usage. Examples of this are: repurposing glass bottles into artistic lamp shades, giving your old cell phones to family or friends for reuse, and upcycling street trash bins into community swimming tubs.

But, why recycle? Why go through all the trouble of recycling your garbage? How does recycling benefit us and the environment?

Let's review the benefits of recycling :

Recycling Helps Protect The Environment

Recycling sharply reduces the amount of waste that gets deposited in our landfills or burned in incinerator plants. Engineered landfills in most cities are designed to contain toxic chemicals leaking from decaying solid waste from reaching our water systems. But, for how long? Already, we're getting reports of dangerous chemicals contaminating water supplies in some cities. Burning solid waste for electricity may be efficient, but we pay the price in terms of increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

Recycling Helps Conserve Limited Resources

To put this benefit in proper perspective, let's consider this statement from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: "By recycling over 1 million tons of steel in 2004, Pennsylvanians saved 1.3 million tons of iron ore, 718,000 tons of coal, and 62,000 tons of limestone. Through recycling newsprint, office paper and mixed paper, we saved nearly over 8.2 million trees."

Resources like oil and precious metals (gold, silver, bauxite, copper, etc.) are all finite resources that will be exhausted, sooner or later. Cell phone and computer manufacturers, like Dell and Apple, recognize the need for a steady supply of raw materials - most are active in buy-back programs to recycle materials from used products.

Recycling Promotes Energy Efficiency

Recycling is far more efficient, in terms of energy consumption, than producing something out of fresh raw material. Done on a nationwide scale, this could lead to significant reduction in our energy costs. The energy required to extract , process, and transport metal from a mine to a refinery is obviously much greater than what's required to recycle metal from used products - it costs more energy to manufacture a brand new aluminum can from fresh material than to make 20 cans out of recycled materials!

Recycling Helps Build A Strong Economy

Every cost-reduction, energy efficiency, materials conservation, and job generation benefit of recycling adds up to help build a strong economy for our country. Recycling, done on a country-wide scale, has a huge positive impact on the economy. There was dip in the price of recyclables last year when the financial crisis started, but it is testimony to the resiliency of this industry that prices are now back to pre-crisis levels - a recovery that's well ahead than most other industries. Jobs are being generated and city and town governments are enjoying huge savings in electricity, garbage collection, and landfilling costs.

Recycling Creates Jobs

Recycling generates more jobs than landfilling or incinerating waste. That's a benefit we can't lose sight of, in this time of recession and high unemployment rate. Let's consider the disposal of 10,000 tons of solid waste: burning it for electricity will create 1 job; collecting and dumping this on a landfill will create 6 jobs; processing the waste for recyling will generate 36 jobs!

Recycling Builds Community

People band together and build communities around common causes, issues, and advocacies. Recycling is no different. In many neighborhoods and cities across the country, we see concerned citizens working together in recycling initiatives, environment lobby groups, and free recycling groups. If you're new to recycling or environmental advocacy, go find a local group to work with. Staying the course is more fun and rewarding when you have other enthusiasts cheering you on.

Recycling Can Be Financially Rewarding

If you just want to make money to get by in these hard times or start a home business, recycling is a profitable option. It's relatively easy and inexpensive to start a home- based recycling business. You just need to plan on what material (cell phone, paper, or metals, etc.) you intend to collect, plan storage, contact the recycling plant for pricing, and you're set to start collecting recyclables and reselling these to the recycling facility at a decent profit. The large recycling giants in the US all started as home businesses years ago - you can do it, too - those guys just recognized the huge potential of this business well ahead of the crowd.

The benefits of recycling to each of us, to society, and to the environment are our compelling reasons why we recycle. For many of us, recycling has become second nature - a way of life. It's a small but extremely vital component of environmental protection - without recycling, all our efforts to protect the planet will be less effective, even futile. Let's all continue recycling.