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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Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016
After fighting a losing battle with the growing tide of municipal waste, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has notified the new Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 with clear responsibilities assigned
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Mumbai: Now, wet waste treatment mandatory for all buildings
The owners of all new buildings will have to provide separate coloured bins to collect dry waste. TAKING note of the flak it received from the state government, the High Court as well as citizens over
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Govt. notifies new rules on waste management
Municipal bodies will be allowed to charge user fees and levy spot fines for littering and non-segregation The Environment Ministry has notified rules making it incumbent on a wide range of groups —
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Green body hails Centre's construction, demolition mgmt rules
Welcoming the Centre's decision to notify construction and demolition management rules, a green body today said it was "urgently" needed as cities are choking on such waste which has serious environmental
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E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the E-Waste Management Rules, 2016 in supersession of the e-waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2011. Announcing the notification
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Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016
The Government has notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, in suppression of the earlier Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011. The Minister of State for Environment, Forest
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Disposal of e-Waste, 15/03/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Disposal of e-Waste, 15/03/2016. The reported generation of e-waste by State Pollution Control Boards/ Pollution Control Committees within their State / Union Territory
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Solution to global problem on plastic pollution could be in new bacteria that can break down PET
The discovery by scientists of a new bacteria that can eat plastic is timely because studies indicate that by 2025, there would be one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of finfish caught in the oceans.
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Housing socs, city schools vow to sweep clean area by adopting waste management techniques
Thane: The need to tackle the growing waste issue in the city has encouraged many housing societies, schools and even colleges to go the zero-waste way .Proper waste disposal has been an issue since quite
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Could a new plastic-eating bacteria help combat this pollution scourge?
Nature has begun to fight back against the vast piles of filth dumped into its soils, rivers and oceans by evolving a plastic-eating bacteria – the first known to science. In a report published in the