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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Scope of recycling municipal solid waste in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR)
Ecosystem is affected by uneducated, unplanned and ineffective waste management. The cycle of garbage generation and recycling is effective to make the cities environment more pollution free, clean, green
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Wipro tops Greenpeace's global ranking for greener electronics firms
Overtakes HP to top in the guide for 2012 Wipro, the Bangalore-based company with interests in consumer goods, electronics hardware and IT services among others, has topped the 'Guide to Greener Electronics’ list for 2012 released by global non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace. The company, which previously participated in the Indian edition of the Guide, had made its debut in the international version of Greenpeace’s Guide this year.
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IFFI 2012 says no to plastic waste
PANJIM: The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa is going to see zero tolerance to plastic waste with Panjim civic authorities chalking out a plan of action to reduce and re-cycle every bit of waste generated during the ten-day festivities. This eco-friendly initiative, for the first time by the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), aims at reducing non-biodegradable waste by 50 per cent and plastic waste by 100 per cent. The CCP Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues on Sunday said, “We are not going to allow any use of bags, bottles, drinking cups or glasses, plates of plastic or material that is non-biodegradable generally dispensed by vendors at the IFFI venues.”
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Waste plant eats into ragpickers’ share
Daily Earning Dips To 100-200 As Okhla Project Uses Up 1,300 Tonnes Tehreen Nisha has spent her early years watching people sort the waste at the Okhla landfill site every day. About 150 families of
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Corporates offer to take City out of garbage mess
A small group of corporate bigwigs and social entrepreneurs on Thursday came forward to provide a ‘roadmap’ to the State government to put in place an efficient and sustainable waste management system for Bangalore. Biocon Chairperson and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar- Shaw and V Ravichandar of the Bangalore City Connect Foundation (BCCF) met Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and volunteered to finalise the roadmap. But there were no details of the proposed blueprint to be presented to the government.
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Waste-to-energy plant robbing waste-pickers of livelihood
Waste-to-energy plants that are touted by the Government as the only solution to the city’s multiplying waste and shrinking waste dumps have taken away livelihood opportunities from a large number of waste-pickers
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Goonj gets WEF award for social entrepreneurship
Goonj, a voluntary organisation working with poor communities and helping preserve the environment by recycling cloth and other waste material was given the ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year India 2012’
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Velsao selected for door-to-door dry waste collection
PANJIM: Velsao panchayat in Cortalim constituency will be the first to have door to door collection of dry waste as part of a pilot project by Department of Science, Technology & Environment in collaboration with the Directorate of panchayats. Speaking to media persons, after the meeting with officials of the directorate of panchayats and ‘experts’ on the garbage management including Levinson Martins, the Member Secretary of the Goa State Pollution Control Board, Patricia Pinto CCP councillor, Clinton Vaz and others, Environment Minister Alina Saldanha said that after trying out the system for a month, they would take it to other panchayats as well.
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Shopping centre achieves zero waste to landfill
Northern Ireland's second largest shopping centre, which serves 14 million shoppers a year, has been recognised for achieving zero waste to landfill. CastleCourt teamed up with waste management company
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Govt to declare core areas 'waste-free zone'
As part of its cleanliness drive, the government is planning to declare some major areas in the Kathmandu Valley ‘waste-free zone’ within the current fiscal year. The Solid Waste Management Technical