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Even asthedigital revolution gains pace,theensuing by-product,continuesto get a shortshrift in thecountry. Itisexactly this messthatAtteroRecycling aimstoclean up. The five-year old Noida-based startup,
Even asthedigital revolution gains pace,theensuing by-product,continuesto get a shortshrift in thecountry. Itisexactly this messthatAtteroRecycling aimstoclean up. The five-year old Noida-based startup,
Every single gadget we use will sooner or later end up in a trash can. Computers, mobile phones, DVD players, TV sets, will all be junk. From a computer penetration density of less than 10 per 1000 population in 2005, India will exceed 60 per 1000 in 2010. Mobile phones will touch 300 million and TV sets over 140 million.
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Are mobile phones ringing in e-waste? Sounding the alarm bell, a NGO describes discarded mobile phones as toxic time bombs. In the US, says the Delhi based Toxics Link, an estimated 130 million
Rajiv Tikoo New Delhi: With the proposed rules for e-waste management get ready for consultation, industry leaders will take up the issue with environment ministry officials on Thursday. The rules will make it mandatory for industries like computer manufacturing to take back products after they become unusable.
There is some alarming news on e-waste, waste generated out of junked computers. A report released found that dumping and recycling of this hazardous waste is rampant in Chennai and Mumbai. And it is
Despite the fact that dumping old computers in developing countries has been declared as violation of international law, Pakistan was being used as dumping ground for over 50,000 tons of e-waste that hurts local industry and also creates environmental and health hazards.
Mumbai: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has chosen Attero Recycling, an e-waste recycling company, as a first recycler to be given registration by the ministry of environment and forests. Nitin Gupta, CEO of the Attero Recycling, said, "The registration by the CPCB is in recognition of our commitment to the cause of the environment."
Delhi: Hardware companies are on the hunt for the best e-waste disposal mechanisms. The waste from discarded computers, TVs and mobiles is projected to grow to over 8,00,000 tonnes by 2012. After Wipro, Nokia and Philips, Hewlett-Packard
India may be turning into one of Britain's largest e-dumps .Thousands of tonnes of electronic e-waste , such as broken computers and discarded mobile phones, is being shipped abroad, according to new
Bangalore's battle with solid e-waste management is known enough. With scientific landfill sites at a premium, a large portion of the 3,000 tonnes of waste generated in the city everyday is disposed
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Mumbai: Now, you can get rid of old electronic gadgets and gizmos in a safe, scientific way - and get paid for it. Harshit Patel, a city-based entrepreneur, from Polytela e-Commerce Private Limited, has launched a first nation-wide service to collect e-waste free of cost.
Hewllet-Packard (HP) India has launched a programme to address the issue of e-waste disposal. Mr Raj Kumar Rishi, Country Commercial Sales Manager, told Business Line: "The drive for a cleaner
After the e-revolution of the past two decades, the world is not faced with the problem of disposal of e-wastes.The issue has assumed such a proportion that a meeting of Environment Ministers from
Pune June 29 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has expressed concern over the poor response from the information technology (IT) companies to address the problem of electronic waste being generated in the city despite efforts made by the civic body. "The PMC has initiated steps to tackle the e-waste problem, but there is not much response from the IT companies," Ajay Ojha, PMC Environment Cell, in-charge, said at a meeting with representatives of 200 IT companies organised recently by city-based NGO Sarathi.
Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure millions of obsolescent TVs, old computers and other unwanted gadgets don't poison the nation's dumps. The trial, announced Monday, covers 117 Best Buy stores scattered across eight states that will collect a wide variety of electronic detritus at no charge, even if the Richfield, Minn.-based retailer didn't originally sell the merchandise. RELATED ARTICLE: Tech firms go green as e-waste mounts
One has heard of E.Coli as a health hazard , now comes e-waste generated by the hi-tech computer industry. With one of the highest rates of obsolescence, junked PCs and accessories like printers and
Bangalore figures prominently in the world map for its contribution in Information Technology (IT). This phenomental growth over the past decade, has given rise to the generation of lot of electronic waste. E-waste thus generated contains many recoverable metals and non metals along with hazardous wastes and their improper disposal may cause environmental problems.
It's the Frankenstein's monster of the hi-tech revolution. Electronic waste or e-waste is being dumped in Asia, particularly China, India and Pakistan from mammoth economies like the US. What has