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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Jakarta scavengers moan loss of scrap trade
Indonesia is burdened, in more ways than one, by other nations treating it as a dumping ground for their wastes.
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Simple systems available to treat sewage
Planners should be made aware of easy techniques that can recycle waste water using little electricity.
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Recycled paper up on global popularity chart
BY THE end of the 1980s, 37 per cent of the paper and board consumed by the world was being collected and recycled to make more paper and board. While in the North it was environmental consciousness
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Package collection plan promotes recycling
Germany's environmental laws are slowly ushering in a culture of waste reduction, especially in packaging material.
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Environment friendly is far too often unfriendly
Disposable diapers and paper cups tax the environment, yes, but washing reusable diapers and china cups is just as environment unfriendly, say recent studies. Caught in the middle of this information blitz is the consumer.
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Facing packaging problems
IN THIS "throwaway" age the Germans are trying to be difficult. Their stringent waste laws are creating a rift in the European Commission (EC) which wants lower and more flexible standards.
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Feed it to the earthworm
That is what Lata Srikhande, a Pune housewife, did to solve her domestic waste disposal problems. Now her neighbourhood is following suit
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Why should we be proud to be Indians, or Citizens of our particular city? What is a "WORLD CLASS CITY"?
<div id="__ss_1849827">At a recent Interdisciplinary Group Meeting in UTTIPEC (<a href="http://uttipec.nic.in/">http://uttipec.nic.in/</a>), I gave a presentation on the path that planners, engineers and designers in the government should/ could take to achieve the World Class City goals of Delhi.
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The energy should always work twice
Waste heat from industrial plants and electricity-generating stations represents a huge amount of lost energy. David Lindley finds out what engineers and regulators need to do to get it back.
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New Loo Turns Waste Into Energy
Industrial designer Virginia Gardiner has designed not just a new toilet, but a new closed-loop management system that will allow individuals to, basically, recycle their poop. Yeah, I just said that. But give her idea a few minutes of your attention, because it's really not as gnarly as it sounds.