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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Mitie reports strong sustainability performance in 2014
FTSE 250 strategic outsourcer Mitie has claimed a significant increase in sustainability performance for the ninth consecutive year and "strong progress towards its 2020 targets". However, energy and
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Environmental Hazards to Health a Major Concern- Dr Harsh Vardhan
Announces "Green" Hospitals and more Public Health Institutes On the occasion of World Environment Day, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, has announced his resolve for greening
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Garbage blocking Hyderabad development
Hyderabad: If the GHMC’s boast of developing the city into a world-class one is to come true, it must start at the bottom, with better management of garbage and provisions of adequate garbage bins across
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Kochi Chokes under Heavy Pollution
KOCHI: In 2012, when National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, Kochi, undertook a survey, Kochi stood at the 24th position among
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Mumbai is noisiest city in the world
Mumbai is hostage to air and water pollution at dangerous levels, and is probably the n the world, ahead of Delhi and Kolkata. Maharashtra's economic survey , released a day before World Environment Day
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CRT imports posing a major health, environmental hazard: Toxics Links
Massive Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) imports coupled with lack of proper recycling policies and inadequate implementation processes have made India its dumping ground, states the Toxics Link’s latest publication
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Managing carbon vital in climate change control
“The effective management of Carbon will decide the success of regulating climate change or global warming. Shifting to a development paradigm which is sustainable with nature can only save the planet
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Air quality worsening, drinking water and waste management better in Delhi, says TERI survey
Half of the respondents recently surveyed by not-for-profit research institute The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) feel that the air quality in the Capital has worsened, and 40 per cent are of the
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Unmonitored CFL disposal ups environmental hazards
A large number of consumers have switched to using Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) to save electricity but in the absence of any monitoring system and with most of the disposal chain being in the informal
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Planning Commission recommends more waste to energy plants and PPP in waste management
The Planning Commission's taskforce on waste to energy (W2E) has recently recommended a public-private partnership(PPP) model for a combination of waste management technologies, including W2E plants, bio-methanation