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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Here to stay
The Supreme Court stays the auction of toxic wastes
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Metallic lustre in food
The California-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the formation of a study group to examine the need for national action following a series of reports in a Seattle newspaper
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Green manufacturing
Green product design could be a solution to depleting levels of the Earth s mineral resources
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INDIA
• In an attempt to document lead levels in the blood of the people living in Delhi, the Central Pollution Control Board and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in collaboration with the
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Dioxin dilemma
Burning and recycling of waste is contaminating the environment with the lethal chemical dioxin, according to a three-year study conducted for Britain's Environment Agency by AEA Technology in
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Sorting waste
Sorting of waste by robots may soon eliminate dumping sites in France. One of the companies that have developed such a system is Pellenc. The robot has a sensing system to separate various types of
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Pariahs, no more?
Zimbabwe s urban farmers are finally being seen as answers to its development ills
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Costing the waste
A software company has developed a program that can help companies calculate the net costs and savings from recycling and waste reduction. The program allows users to feed in basic information and
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What a waste
The government is yet to decide what stand to take on the international trade in recyclable waste as banning it completely will hit industry hard
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Waste not
The British government has launched a project to recycle nearly 40 per cent of its old newspapers and magazines into high-quality news-print by the year 2000. The project will also help reduce the