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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Report calls for Israeli firms that produce hazardous waste pay for its disposal
A comprehensive report on Israel’s treatment of hazardous waste recommends imposing a fee on the companies that produce such waste to cover the costs of its disposal. It also recommends splitting the government
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Eastern-Midlands plan aims to halt black bin landfill waste
Some €360 million needs to be spent within the next six years on infrastructure to manage and regulate the waste of just over half the population of the State, according to a new waste plan for the eastern
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The UK company turning coffee waste into furniture
Re-Worked makes material from waste coffee grounds collected from offices around the UK to make furniture for the same offices Britain was falling in love with coffee just as Adam Fairweather was exploring
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Volkswagen revs up bid to become world's greenest carmaker
German carmaker Volkswagen has released its 2014 Sustainability Report, revealing good progress towards its plan to become "the world's most sustainable automobile company". Emissions and energy use
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Take steps for scientific disposal of CFLs: Parliamentary panel to government
Expressing astonishment that there is "no binding regulation or infrastructure" for disposal of mercury, a parliamentary panel has recommended the government to take concrete steps to ensure safe and scientific
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Fearing ban, packaging firm moves National Green Tribunal
With the National Green Tribunal mulling ban on plastic packaging of products including PET bottles, a packaging firm has approached it claiming that it is “least polluting” while alternative materials
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Nigeria: Lagos Invests N22 Billion in Waste Recycling
Lagos — The Lagos State government has invested N22 billion in recycling of waste materials, the Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ola Oresanya has disclosed. He said the
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on plastic waste collected and recycled, 30/04/2015
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar informed Rajya Sabha that as per a survey conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board, in
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Waste Warriors holds cleaning drives in Dalanwala
The local voluntary organisation, Waste Warriors, conducted two clean-up drives in Dalanwala on the weekend. A total of nine teachers from Maple Bear School accompanied the organisation’s CEO Jodie Underhill
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Students learn all about waste management
As part of environment awareness and conservation drive launched by UT department of environment and NGO Yuvsatta on World Earth Day, 50 girls of Carmel Convent School, Sector 9, participated in 'Garbage