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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Need to explain to people what climate change means in daily life: UN environ chief
United Nations environment chief Erik Solheim has said spouting "doom and gloom" while talking about climate change will not work and stressed that there was a need to present it in a "simpler" language
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Give timeline for use of Ghazipur waste to build roads: Parliament panel
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel on Monday directed the housing urban affairs ministry to talk to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on how soon the mount of garbage piled up at Ghazipur can be
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Waste-to-power project in the offing at Nakodar
The state is all set to have its first “waste to power” project by March this year at the Sugarfed plant in Nakodar. The decision in this regard was taken at a meeting under the Chief Secretary Karan Avtar
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Waste disposal systems hinder recycling efforts
Despite the government establishing systems for collection and transportation of the increasing waste, which is mainly driven by rising urbanisation in Kigali and secondary cities, recycling companies
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State’s first garbage-free locality comes up in city
A residential society in Patiala has managed to keep the surroundings clean and dispose of the household waste in an environment-friendly way. With the roll out of the Swachh Survekshan-2018, people
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Assessment of contamination of soil and groundwater due to e-waste handling
<p>This paper reveals the magnitude of heavy metal contamination of soil and groundwater in and around an unauthorized e-waste recycling site in Delhi. Though unsafe and unorganized and with the e-waste
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Thanekars to learn cost-effective waste management on Sat
Environmentally-conscious housing societies in Thane have to look no further for cost-effective waste management. On Saturday, a waste management summit in the city will teach Thanekars how to turn their
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This Bengaluru craftsman turns trash into treasure
CHENNAI: Earrings made of peepal leaves, a terrarium that nestles in a light bulb, a table fashioned from a tyre - visitors are bound to stop by Jagadish C's stall at Craft Bazaar 2018. The Bengaluru-based
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Disposal of e-Waste, 22/12/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Disposal of e-Waste, 22/12/2017. There are 178 dismantling/recycling units with a capacity of 441085.6 metric tonnes per annum. The State-wise details of installed recycling/dismantling
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Plastic recycling aims to cure turtle tummy-ache on Kenya's coast
Kai, a three-year-old green sea turtle, was released back into the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean off Kenya's coast this month. She had been hospitalised after her guts were blocked with white