The global e-waste monitor 2024
<p>The world's electronic waste generation is increasing five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, according to the United Nation's fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) report.</p>
<p>The world's electronic waste generation is increasing five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, according to the United Nation's fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) report.</p>
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa already among top investment destinations, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has chalked out plans which will give industries a regulatory frame-work that is responsive, efficient, equipped with a sound enforcement mechanism and scientific at the same time. The pollution watchdog of the State has already stitched up plans for the future by readying its Vision-2030 wh
JHARSUGUDA: Hundreds of villagers locked gates 1 and 2 of Vedanta Aluminium Limited protesting ash emission from the 600 mega watt unit of Independent Power Plant of Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) on Wednesday. The unit restarted functioning on Monday.
Vedanta Group Co Was Told To Close Copper Smelting Plant For Environmental Hazards New Delhi: Sterlite Industries on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court order that directed the company to shut down its copper smelting plant at Tuticorin for not complying with the environmental norms.
Solan: With the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) directing induction furnaces and steel units to get their non-hazardous slag treated through the Shiwalik Hazardous Waste Plant, investors resent that the board had made it compulsory to get this waste treated from the hazardous plant which was contrary to the laid guidelines. Conversely, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had laid dow
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the London-listed Vedanta group company to give details about the steps being taken by it to comply with the environmental norms at Sterlite
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has extended the stay on the order of the Madras High Court with regard to Sterlite Industries till the second week of December. A Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale directed the respondents to file their replies in four weeks and the rejoinder thereafter in two weeks. The Bench also asked the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to file the
IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years in an open-air scrapyard in the middle of the busiest part of town.
The State Government has claimed that the solid waste processing unit near Sullia in Dakshina Kannada does not pose threat to environment. In an affidavit filed before the High Court on Saturday, the government said that the unit has been set up with necessary sanctions from competent authorities - Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and the Department of Mines and Geology.
PARADIP: The House panel on environment expressed dissatisfaction over inability of Paradip Port Trust, IOCL, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd in controlling industrial pollution in the area.
Lead is found in products like water pipes, printing ink, paints and even Ayurvedic medicines, apart from battery cells posing hazards, says Uma Rajarathnam