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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Wetland crisis
Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta
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Old Batteries New Rules
The Indian government comes out with the draft rules for recycling lead acid batteries. Their effectiveness is questionable
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Recycled rows
The recently concluded third conference on the Basel Convention in Geneva pledge to rid the agreement's ambiguties
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A mixed bag
The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? <font class='UCASE'>Pinaki Roy</font> on the ban s efficacy
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Swamped
The convoluted laws of the country fail to tackle the menace caused by the exponentially growing and powerful plastic industry in India
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Shared misery
The government has finalised a strategy to get industries to reduce their waste
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Going slow
Efforts to reduce the impact of business and industry on nature are falling short, reveals a new United Nations Environment Programme (unep) report. Very few companies in each industry are actively
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Mohan Meakin reopens after three months, but doubts remain
mohan Meakin Limited (mml) was in the news recently. But for all the wrong reasons. The Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) had ordered the distillery to be shut down in early May 2002 on the
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Tangible shift
Bioprocessing - the Indian leather industry braces itself for an environmental facelift
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Water treatment need not cost the earth
Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.