World’s Tallest Electronics Waste Sculpture to Come up at ITI Berhampur

Berhampur: Perturbed over alarming rise of e-waste burden in the various city, skilled professionals of ITI Berhampur, on the occasion of World Environment Day, have decided to install the tallest e-waste sculpture of the world to share a concern among the world community.

According to ITI Berhampur, e-waste sculptures would help generates awareness among the general public who are concerned for environment. The institute has already set up the largest e-scrap park, which is largest in Asia as per Asia Book of Records.

In current digital era, the e-waste generation is very high. In each and every house there are some e-waste products. The electronics toys to computer, mobile, CD player, TV, VCR like this, thousands of wastes are generated every day. These wastes will create a huge hazardous environment in the world. To warn the world community regarding the amount of e waste generated we are developing this tallest sculpture to draw attention of the whole world.

This 29 ft tall sculpture is fabricated at campus and the e-waste collected from the Berhampur City is being used here. This will consume more than 3 Tone wastes.

The students from Electrician and Instrument Mechanic under the guidance of their trade teachers have developed this sculpture.

The institute has set up an e-waste collection centre at its campus where the e-wastes are being a collected and used on this huge sculpture.

At present a 16 ft tall e-sculpture is available at Bhubaneswar, the 29 ft e-sculpture will be the tallest in the world, claims ITI Berhampur while keeping hope that it will be placed in Gunnies Book of Records.

Principal, ITI, Berhampur, Dr. Rajat Kumar Panigrahy said with the theme ‘Hand Pointing to the Ground’, this sculpture gives the message to reconnect with ‘Mother Earth’ by being responsible in scientific management of Electronic Waste (e-waste) and recycling it in a sustainable manner and to be responsible in management of e-waste by following the principles of reduction, reuse, repair and recycle.

As per the Waste Management Rules, 2016, the e-waste should be scientifically stored and dismantled as their unscientific management leads to pollution and various environmental hazards. In 2019, the world generated a striking 53.6 Mt of e-waste, an average of 7.3 Kg per capita. The global generation of e-waste grew by 9.2 Mt. Since 2014 and is projected to grow to 74.7 Mt. by 2030-almost doubling in only 16 years.

Notably, the ITI Berhampur has been felicitated by the Odisha Government with Prakruti Bandhu and Prakruti Mitra Award for its contribution towards a sustainable environment.