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>
Waste Recycling
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Garbage collectors protest in Nicaragua
Thousands of people who eke out a living by selling recyclable trash scavenged from the municipal dump in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, are staging a protest over control of city's waste.
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Gadget recycling may be poisoning China's children
Think about this next time you upgrade your PC: toxic metals from old electronic goods are finding their way into school grounds in China. Seventy per cent of the world's discarded phones and computers are exported to China. Most are processed in family-run workshops, where the circuit boards are ripped out of old equipment and heated over open fires. This melts the solder, allowing individual components to be removed and resold. The bare circuit boards are then burned.
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At last, compost yards come to life
Full to the brim: Malliga Mohan, chairperson of Madambakkam town panchayat, at the compost yard where kitchen waste is converted into manure. TAMBARAM: After remaining idle for a very long time, compost yards built in most of the town panchayats around Tambaram have started functioning. Several lakhs were spent over the years on building sheds and creating facilities to convert kitchen waste into manure in the 13 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram district that come within the Chennai Metropolitan Area.
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Dunstable Waste Group acquired by Greenstar
Waste management company Greenstar has acquired Dunstable Waste Group, a Bedfordshire-based commercial waste disposal and recycling business trading as Firbank Chiltern. The new acquisition continues the company's move to become a fully integrated firm with interests across the whole of the UK. Last year, Greenstar acquired Verdant Group, a residential municipal services provider in the UK. Commenting on the acquisition, Greenstar chief executive Ian Wakel said: "This deal gives Greenstar a bigger footprint in the South East of England.
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Smart labels for waste and resource management : An integrated assessment
This article explores the potential of RFID (radio frequency identification device) for improving the current waste and resource management system in Switzerland. It presents the following three possible options for utilizing RFID tags to support waste management processes:
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Hotel with green fingers
The Taj West End hotel in Bangalore implements practices which have won it the prestigious National Tourism Award for being the best eco-friendly hotel in India. The award recognises the hotel's efforts to promote eco-friendly initiatives and its commitment to protect, conserve, and restore the natural environment.
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Lavish green homes
T-Zed Homes, a housing complex on six acres of Varathur Road in Bangalore has new age apartments built by Biodiversity Conservation India Ltd (BCIL), Asia's largest green building company.
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Guidelines for environmentally sound management of e-waste
The objective of these guidelines is to provide guidance for identification of various sources of waste electrical and electronic equipments (e-waste) and prescribed procedures for handling e-waste in an environmentally sound manner. These Guidelines are reference document for the management, handling and disposal of e-wastes.
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Guidelines for environmentally sound management of e-waste
The electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. The increasing
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Policy considerations for establishing an environmentally sound regional material flow in East Asia
This article argues that waste management and recycling have become regional or international issues; they can no longer be considered only in a national context. The regionalization or internationalization of waste and recycling issues is caused in large part by the steady advance of economic integration, especially increasing trade and investment flows resulting from trade and investment liberalization.