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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Death of a computer
There is an urgent need to develop a technology to recycle old computers
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Trash to trash
The industrialised countries are producing an enormous amount of garbage. Western Europe
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MONEYMAKERS
better roads ahead: Delhi-based company, Tinna Oils and Chemicals Ltd has introduced a new bitumen modifier which improves the quality of roads and prolongs their lives by 2.5 times. According to
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CHINA
Thanks to the comprehensive use of wastewater and solid waste material, northwest China's Gansu Province yielded economic benefits worth over US $49 million. The province discharges 240 million
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Shape of things to come
A novel method to convert plastic bags into new shapes could help minimise their adverse effects on our environment
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Vicious cycle
The Union government dilly dallies on an expert committee recommendation to ban recycled plastic bags
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Research boon
in the South Wales Vale of Tory, uk , the crumbling neglected landscaped garden's of the 18th century, Middleton estate is being transformed into the world's largest single span greenhouse.
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Walled paper
Do not throw away those old telephone books and fruit juice packs, build your walls with them. Australia's national research centre, CSIRO, is backing a project to turn these "raw' ingredients into
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Handy manual
the book is a guide for organisations and indivi duals interested to make their offices "green'. The author, Lesley Millet, a sales and marketing professional, is an expert in environmental
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The reanimators
Best out of waste? These scientists have taken it further, making a supercomputer out of electronic junk