Karo Sambhav: School Program



Karo Sambhav: School Program aims at building awareness and inspiring students to act on recycling of e-waste (waste from old and unused electronic equipments). The program also enables development of 21st century skills amongst students including collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, communication, social skills, ICT competences, self-direction, and planning. This is achieved through a specially designed curriculum, which  is mapped to existing subjects.
The Curriculum is designed in the form a toolkit, consisting of six exercises. These exercises provide exposure to students through various individual and group exercises. The exercises require students to develop collaboration skills by working with several stakeholders e.g.  parents, relatives, and communities to evaluate and consider the environmental impacts from existing lifestyles and take steps towards sustainable living. 

The program intends to initiate a new way of thinking in the way we live our lives and in the way, we buy, use and dispose different products. School time, being the formative years, is the best time to initiate this change in the thought process of individuals.

Karo Sambhav is building a cohesive e-waste movement across India by making it possible for people and institutions to responsibly recycle their electronic waste. Karo Sambhav designs and implements Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programmes for leading brands like Apple, Cisco, Dell, Flipkart, HP, Lenovo, and Nokia (HMD) and enables them to be thought leaders in closing the material loops.Karo Sambhav is building a cohesive e-waste movement across India by making it possible for people and institutions to responsibly recycle their electronic waste. Karo Sambhav designs and implements Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programmes for leading brands like Apple, Cisco, Dell, Flipkart, HP, Lenovo, and Nokia (HMD) and enables them to be thought leaders in closing the material loops.

Karo Sambhav has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a part of the World Bank Group, to set up a robust India-wide transformative solution on e-waste management with the aim of making recycling a way of life and the implementation of a PRO solution for the industry.
Karo Sambhav is also a part of the 12th cohort of Microsoft ScaleUp programme designed for startups offering a single point of entry to engage with Microsoft through a broad-based and holistic approach.
Karo Sambhav’s presence extends to all 29 States and 3 Union Territories in India.
Our fundamental objectives are to work together with electronic producers to:
  • Keep obsolete or discarded electronic products out of landfills
  • Optimise the recovery of resources from electronic products or their components
  • Develop a globally harmonised and locally relevant system for responsible e-waste management in India

RECYCLING RESPONSIBLY

Karo Sambhav offers responsible recycling possibilities to all its stakeholders through its partners. Any e-waste collected by us goes to the selected authorised recyclersin India, who are enrolled with us after going through very rigorous and thorough assessments.

CAPACITY BUILDING AND AWARENESS GENERATION

Karo Sambhav engages with a wide audience to bring about a change in consumers’ attitude towards e-waste management through various awareness and training programmes.The programmes are designed to have long term benefits in terms of behavioural shift and are designed for high-impact stakeholders such as schools and bulk consumers.