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>
Electronic Waste
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Disposal ground: India turns e-waste dumpyard
Visakhapatnam: India is turning into a dumping ground for e-waste from western countries like US, Canada, Australia and European nations. Despite curbs on import of used electronic goods from Western
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Govt plans changes in rules to check e-waste
With people tending to change cell phones as frequently as every three to four years, e-waste management has now assumed great importance in the country. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said with
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Toxic boom
frican and Asian countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, China, Pakistan, India, and Vietnam are turning into illegal e-waste hubs, bypassing the legitimate global waste and recycling market that is thought
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Greening integration in Asia: how regional integration can benefit people and the environment
<p>This book by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) introduces the concept of Green Integration and makes the case that countries in Asia should make sustainability the main objective of their integration efforts. </p>
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Social organisations take lead in e-waste disposal
Olirum Erodu Foundation and CII Young Indians have together started a month-long e-waste collection camp in the district for safe disposal of harmful materials and safeguard people from toxic effects.
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Goa to set up sorting centre for e-waste
The State government is planning to establish an e-waste sorting centre at Cacora near Curchorem in south Goa. Goa State Pollution Control Board Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said the proposed e-waste (electrical,
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Tapping e-waste treatment options outside State
outside inter-State junk dealers Fed up with the lagging measures of the local self-government institutions here to set up sufficient number of treatment plants to recycle plastic and electronic waste,
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India grappling with e-waste issue: Prakash Javadekar
People changing mobile phone handsets every few months these days is creating a big problem for the environment ministry. The country is facing the issue of e-waste, with 30 crore mobile handsets getting
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E-waste (Management) Rules, 2015
These rules may be called the e-waste (Management) Rules, 2015. These rules shall apply to every manufacturer, producer, consumer, bulk consumer, collection centres, dealers, refurbishers, dismantler and
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You may want to think twice about that mobile phone upgrade
A new research study has called for an overhaul of the way mobile devices are manufactured and contracted, in order to stop the harmful effects on the environment caused by current business models. Researchers