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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PCB to use waste for producing energy
The State Pollution Control Board (PCB) plans to solve the problem of waste management by utilising it for the generation of energy. Kuldeep Singh Pathania, Chairman of the State Pollution Control Board , said in his view waste had to be treated as a raw material resource for energy in future. The board would use its expertise in the field of waste management for converting it into energy.
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Guidelines for national waste management strategies: moving from challenges to opportunities
These UNEP guidelines for national waste Management seeks to provide strategic guidance to countries whose waste management systems are disorganized, haphazard or under-resourced or are in need of a review of their current strategies.
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GSPCB gives Bainguinim waste treatment plant go ahead
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has granted authorization to the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) for an integrated municipal solid waste management facility (IMSWMF) at Bainguinim,
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Boost for zero-budget waste management
Niravu Vengeri’ implements project in school, city ward Amidst numerous cleaning drives initiated by NGOs, government agencies, greens, and private firms on Gandhi Jayanti on Wednesday, the city also showcased a zero-budget waste management model successfully experimented by a progressive residential forum (‘Niravu Vengeri’) here for the past several years.
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India’s e-waste will rise by 400% in next 5 years'
The threat of electronic waste (e-waste) destroying the ecological health is looming large over India. E-waste from old computers is set to jump 400 per cent within the next five years, while it is expected
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Ctrl+Alt+Del e-waste
The organised sector handles only 10 per cent of e-waste. The rest is handled by the unorganised sector that employs unscientific methods. Bangalore surely basked in the global glory of its “IT hub” tag for years. Thanks to the huge IT revenues it generated and the big ticket firms that dug deep roots here, Bangalore deserved that. But now, it is wake up time. No, not from its unrelenting garbage piles or its mounting civic problems, but this time from the rising threat of its electronic waste. Rising because, the city’s e-waste volumes are going beyond 18,000 metric tonnes per annum, an astounding piece of statistic brought home by a recent Assocham survey.
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E-waste units pose health problems
Bangalore: The IT City tag has come with a heavy price tag, thanks to negligence in electronic waste disposal and recycling by public and private sectors. A recent international study by scientists of Ehime University, Japan in association with local experts, revealed that there are many informal backyards and scrap units here where ewaste is not recycled as per norms and this poses serious health risks to people working there and those around them.
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Funds for ULBs to recycle waste
The State government will issue directions to urban local bodies (ULBs) across the State to procure units to process fresh and accumulated municipal solid waste as part of its Rs 100-crore solid waste
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Civic body a long way from striking pay dirt on garbage segregation plan
With seven months left to meet a deadline to achieve 100% house-to-house garbage collection, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has reached a little over the half-way mark. The civic body
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Bethora locals oppose PMC's waste treatment plant
In an emergency meeting on Saturday at the Lord Vinayaka temple in Bondbag-Bethora, villagers unanimously resolved to oppose the waste treatment plant proposed by the state government at the Ponda municipal