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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Scientists transform old plastic shopping bags into vehicle fuel
Researchers have discovered a method to re-use discarded shopping bags by transforming them into a fuel that can power car engines. Scientists in India say they have developed a relatively low-temperature
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Dassault Systemes ranked fifth in global 100 index of the world’s most sustainable corporations
<div> <strong>Press Release</strong></div> <div> </div> <div> <hr /> <p><em>Company Moves Up Four Places Since Last Year’s Rankings</em></p> </div> <div> SAN DIEGO — January
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding persons carrying on a business of dealing with old and unusable vehicles, railway materials and other such machinery are dealing with the dismantling of the same, 24/01/2014
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sh. S.C. Jain Vs. Govt of NCT of Delhi & Ors.dated 24/01/2014 regarding persons carrying on a business of dealing with old and unusable vehicles, railway
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The ‘Clean Bhutan’ and ‘Green Thimphu’ projects
The government unveils an ambitious two-pronged waste management plan Waste: Lyonchhoen Tshering Tobgay yesterday, at the district education officers’ conference, announced the government’s waste management
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Sanguem Municipal Council gets GSPCB diktat on waste
Asserting that the civic body has failed to collect waste and put to use all the five composting units in the town, the Goa State Pollution Control Board has directed the Sanguem Municipal Council to carry
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Chennai’s per capita waste at 0.7kg highest in country
Resolutions on reducing weight and kicking the drinking habit are common, but Chennaiites, going by a report by the Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT), would do well to resolve reducing
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Collaborative action on climate risk - Supply chain report 2013–14
Even as the companies recognize that climate and water risks are rising, mixed regulatory signals make decisive action difficult reveals this sixth annual CDP supply chain information for 2013–14 with data on how suppliers and their customers are collaborating to drive down carbon emissions, mitigating water risk, seizing opportunities, and building revenue and brand along the way.
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Civic bodies enmeshed in mountains of plastic waste
Lack scientific collection and disposal system to deal with the menace The Public Work Department’s (PWD) novel initiative to add plastic as a component in surfacing roads is unlikely to be a panacea for civic bodies with the majority of them lacking scientific collection and disposal system to deal with the ever increasing menace of plastic waste.
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Demolition waste 52 times more than MoEF estimate
India belched over 626 million tones of construction and demolition (C&D) waste in 2013, which is 52 times more than the ministry of environment and forests’ estimate of construction and demolition waste. The MoEF continues to quote the grossly underestimated figure of 10-12 million tones of waste being generated annually. This is a decade-old estimate given to the ministry in 2000 by the ministry of urban development.
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Construction waste needs to be reused, say experts
With a spurt in urbanisation, cities are facing serious environmental consequences due to construction and demolition waste which needs to be recycled and reused, experts said here Monday. At a seminar "Waste to Resource", experts pointed out ways and means to reuse construction material to build buildings which are sustainable.