Schools across India collected about 427,000 pieces of electronic waste
The Hindu said 57,271 schools took part in an e-waste drive, with about 3.3 million students and teachers in the sessions and the collection.
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Schools across India turned an eco-club campaign into a large pile of collected electronics. The Hindu reported on October 29, 2026, that the E-Waste Awareness and Reduction Campaign gathered 4.27 lakh items, about 427,000 pieces, from 57,271 schools.
The drive sits under the education ministry's Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE. Bajaj Foundation organized it with the Department of School Education and Literacy, and UNICEF YuWaah supported the work. The Hindu said 33 lakh participants, about 3.3 million students and teachers, took part in awareness sessions and the collection.
The roundup does not name a single campus, a date range, or a recycler. It does not say the items have been broken down or kept out of a landfill for good. The figure that is on the page is the collection itself: hundreds of thousands of pieces brought in by schools, and millions of people in the rooms where the lesson was taught.
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The Hindu reported that schools across India collected about 427,000 pieces of electronic waste. The drive was the E-Waste Awareness and Reduction Campaign, run through school eco clubs under a national programme called Mission LiFE. The Hindu said 57,271 schools took part. About 3.3 million people, students and teachers together, joined awareness sessions and the collection. Bajaj Foundation organized the drive with the Department of School Education and Literacy, and UNICEF's YuWaah programme supported it. The roundup does not say which city collected the most, or what happened to the items after they were gathered. The news is the size of the collection and how many schools joined, not a claim that every piece has already been recycled.
- What counts as electronic waste in a school or a home?
- Why would a campaign teach people about e-waste and also collect it?
- What is one device your family could keep using longer instead of throwing away?
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