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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Pollution board plans to streamline e-waste collection in state
The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) is going to form a committee to create an inventory of e-wastes following frequent failure to collect these wastes in the state. Two months ago, the OSPCB
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Segregation a waste of time, says survey
Mumbai: Most Mumbaikars are unwilling to segregate waste before disposal, according to a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Despite the belief that waste segregation at source is the best way to handle solid waste and limit health hazards, 80% of those surveyed were not willing to do it. The survey revealed that generating less waste and improving the recycling capacity are other ways which people felt can help manage waste. A meagre 8% were in favour of a user charge.
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One more policy to deal with waste
As if a pile of policies and laws on waste management were not enough, the government is drafting one more policy to deal with the garbage. “Though there are a good number of government bodies and
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Work on waste-to-energy plant begins at Venkatamangalam
Rs. 100-crore project to be completed by mid-2014; will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram Preliminary civil works for a waste-to-energy power plant began at Venkatamangalam village on Monday. The non-incineration facility will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram municipalities. A bhoomi pooja was performed at the 50-acre site at Venkatamangalam, located around 15 kilometres from Tambaram and coming under Kattankulathur panchayat union, Kancheepuram district.
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Metals recycling needs bigger role in product design: U.N
Designers of everything from mobile phones to electric car batteries should make their products far easier to recycle to offset soaring demand for metals, two United Nations reports recommended on Wednesday.
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Green cess on polluting substances on cards
PANJIM: The Goa Government has tabled the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Bill, 2013 to levy cess till 2 per cent of the sale value on products and substances causing pollution. The bill defines these products as: “those which upon their handling, consumption, utilization, combustion, or movement or transportation causes pollution of the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and other environmental resources and causes emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases or discharge other types of effluents...”
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Log in to dispose e-waste
If you have e-waste in your neighbourhood and do not know how to dispose it without causing any damage to the environment, just log in to www.ewaste.in. Recently, members of the Green Brigade club in
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Sholinghur goes eco-friendly with plastic crushing unit
Vellore Collector P. Sankar commissioned a plastic crushing centre established at a cost of Rs. 8 lakh under the Environmental Protection and Renewable Energy Development Fund Scheme for 2011-12 as part
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Sri Lanka considers promoting environment friendly solid waste disposal
Progress on solid waste management in Sri Lanka is not satisfactory and measures are needed for an effective management of solid waste, the Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Wimal Rubasinghe
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Indore biggest plastic waste generator in MP
Plastic waste generation is no longer a problem confined to metro cities. Even tier two cities like Indore and Bhopal are generating mounds of plastic in industrial, residential and even slum areas. This