What would one do if his electronic devise has no buyers at OLX? I feel that he must try to gift it to someone without any delay..
About a decade ago there was some news that reported that USA gifted a large number of desktop computers to the government schools of Punjab. They were obsolete and it was their way of disposing their e-waste. It is said that in the developed countries it is not worth wasting time in trying to sell old TVs to anyone. So they leave it somewhere at the far end of the street to take care of itself. Some people do the same with their old sofa sets and other bulky furniture.
A few months ago I gifted a Sony ericcson camera phone to some child who happened to visit us. There wasn't anyother way to dispose it of.
Canon MF4412 is a scanner plus printer plus copier. It performs fairly well. The only shortcoming is that it isn't WiFi enabled. Firstly a document has to be transferred from the Tab to a pendrive via OTG cable. Then from that it goes to the laptop and finally the printout is obtained.
One of my old time students bought a device called TP LINK Model No TD-W8968 from flipkart for about Rs 1800. It is a modem that is supposed to convert an ordinary printer into WiFi enabled printer. It was lying idle with him. He wanted to give it to me so that I could do wireless printing with it.
It could not work despite trying with various Android applications. Maybe some compatibility issue hindered its installation. We realised that it isn't worth our efforts. This device can, quite rightly, be termed as e-junk. The old student cum friend left it at my place as he was going to Ludhiana. I am sure that he has not gifted it to me as he said that he would take it back soon.
The need of the times is to evolve a national policy of disposing the e waste in a proper way. One of the methods could be re routing the device to the manufacturer at 10 percent of the original value of the product. Every manufacturer ought to have a recycling or disposing mechanism for the e waste produced by its products.
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