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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Kenya: Joho Banks on Sh6.5 Billion Plant to End Garbage Mess
The garbage crisis in Mombasa may soon become a thing of the past after the county government announced plans to set up a waste recycling plant. In the Medium Term Draft Budget 2018/2019, the county
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Solid waste import bans
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced yesterday that China will ban imports of 32 types of solid waste in its latest move to reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid waste,
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Scavenging: A means of livelihood and solution to filth in Kumasi
Waste management has become one of the biggest challenges confronting Ghana Walking down the streets of the famed 'Garden City' of Kumasi, one is overwhelmed by the volumes of litter blotting the Ashanti
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Start-up: NaMo E-waste – Extracting precious metals from e-waste
Worldwide, there are only five global recyclers which extract precious metals from e-waste material. Delhi-based Namo E-waste Management, a recycler cum PRO(Producer Responsibility Organisation), which
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Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase
<p>Synthetic polymers are ubiquitous in the modern world but pose a global environmental problem. While plastics such as poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) are highly versatile, their resistance to natural
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Maharashtra: Use of plastic can be penalized, time given for disposal, HC told
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Thursday told the Bombay high court that citizens using banned plastic items can be penalized since the March 23 notification barring use of plastic came into effect
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Speak up Mumbai: Is banning a solution to the perennial plastic menace?
Plastic ban in the state had come into effect from the Marathi new year of Gudi Padwa. The state government had announced the same around six months in advance. Now, as per the Maharashtra Plastic and
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Reduce, reuse, recycle for development, waste management: PM Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that all stakeholders must adhere to the "golden principle" of the 3Rs -- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle -- which will significantly help in waste management
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Plastics industry will lose Rs 5,000 crore, 4 lakh will lose jobs: All India Plastics Manufacturers’ Association
The association stressed that plastic itself was not a problem, but littering was the real issue that needed to be addressed. Days after the state government enforced a ban on the manufacture, sale
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E- Waste (Management) Amendment Rules, 2018
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said that the Government has amended the E-waste (Management) Rules in a move to facilitate and effectively implement the