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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Dumping dilemma
It has not been smooth sailing for the controversial us $58 billion project to store all the nuclear waste across the us in Nevada. Initially, the plan was strongly opposed by
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Ecomilestone
Recycling of discarded vehicles soon to be mandatory in Europe
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IT paves the way
there is an infotech solution in sight for overflowing garbage. With the help of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Management Information Systems (MIS) models, the Bangalore Mahanagara
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Misguided shot
The Basel convention guidelines to manage plastic waste miss the point: reducing plastics is the real solution
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Drowning In Human Excreta
Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset
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New Age Approach
We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that are sustainable and equitable. So that every Indian can have access to sanitation and still have clean water t
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Ecologically mindless
The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem and not the solution. Consider the huge amount of clean water that is used to carry a small quantity of human
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Committees vs committees
Can rubber stamps serve public interests?
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Toxic gardens
the lawn waste recycling industry in the us is alarmed after traces of Clopyralid, a herbicide harmful to garden vegetables, was found in compost made from recycled grass, straw and manure
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Out of site
it's a catch-22 situation. Although the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (tnpcb) wants local bodies to compost their waste, there is a problem of giving them the right place. A recent casualty is