Dubai:
A Dubai-primarily based 15-year-old Indian girl has launched a campaign, which helped in the recycling of 25 tonnes of electronic waste in the Gulf nation, according to a media report on Friday.
Riva Tulpule, a student of grade 10, got the notion to start off the campaign although clearing out drawers filled with broken devices in 2016, the Gulf News reported.
While shifting to a new home a couple of years ago, Ms Tulpule identified lots of disused electronics although assisting her mom clear out drawers. This sparked the starting of her campaign ‘WeCareDXB” that she mentioned has collected more than 25 tonnes of e-waste for recycling in more than 4 years, the report mentioned.
“I had asked my mom why we can’t we just dispose the items we don’t need. She told me they need to be tacked in a special way but we were not sure exactly how to go about it. So, that made me curious and I decided to do some research into it, which led me to this cause,” Ms Tulpule was quoted as saying by the report.
She mentioned several persons just dump old devices and appliances in the basic waste as they are not conscious of the solutions for recycling them.
Raising awareness by way of social media and word of mouth, WeCareDXB has enlisted volunteers — students, pros, the basic public — to gather the products for recycling e-waste.
Ms Tulpule, a student of GEMS Modern Academy, got in touch with Dubai-primarily based EnviroServe, an electronics recycler and processor, to hand more than the collected products.
In December final, she held her newest collection round, rallying pals and the wider neighborhood to drop off more than 2,000 broken laptops, tabs, mobile phones, printers, keyboards and other products. Over 60 students from 15 schools had signed up for the 10-day campaign.