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
-
Bioconversion of municipal solid waste and analysis of its physico chemical parameters
The compost products are useful in increasing soil fertility and decrease dumped municipal solid waste. Composting is accepted because it is economically and environmentally a safe method. Fungi are used
-
Wales could break 50% recycling barrier by summer
Wales is now recovering 48% of its muncipal waste putting it firmly on track to reach its 2012-13 statutory recycling target of 52%. Official figures released by the Welsh Assembly show that during
-
Comparison of different waste management technologies and climate change effect—Jordan
Solid waste management (SWM) strategies offer huge potentials to contribute to climate change mitigation. To assess the potentials of SWM to contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and resource recovery,
-
E-Waste law: New paradigm or business as usual?
The new e-waste rules notified by the government are an important step forward. However, loopholes which allow producers to evade their responsibility and the informal sector to evade environmental and
-
ITC’s paper, plastic waste troubles residents
Residents of Bharathi Park complain of unbearable stench The bags containing waste paper and plastics that the ITC has collected from the city’s residents are worth about Rs. 40 lakh. The company collected the waste, as part of its Wealth Out of Waste (WOW) project, in a bid to recycle them. But that has not happened. The bags are found dumped at the Coimbatore Corporation’s High Level Reservoir compound on Bharathi Park Road.
-
Rules confined to paper as no takers for e-waste management
PANJIM: It’s more than a month that the E-waste Management and Handling Rules, 2012 - notified by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Central Pollution Control (CPCB), Govt of India, has come into force, but till date barely 1% of e-waste manufacturers and users have woken up to the reality of the new regulations. The e-waste handling rules, which came into effect from May 1, 2012, through a gazette notification on May 12, 2011 - has come fixing the responsibility on all stakeholders including mainly manufacturers, retailers and consumers.
-
Seeking an answer to Chennai's mounting e-waste problem
Pollution Control Board steps up drive on e-waste The next time you go to buy a laptop or a hard disk at one of those swanky showrooms, chances are that the salesperson would, besides telling you the features of the device, also give you detailed instructions on how to discard the equipment and the contact details of their collection centres. If she does not do so, you might have to ask for them, because according to the E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011,
-
Recycling, the new mantra for sustainable industries
Recycling could be the new mantra for industries in the State as policy makers and experts stressed on the need to develop technologies to reuse waste to realise the ‘Vision 2023’ goal of sustainable industrial production in Tamil Nadu. Speaking at a day-long seminar on ‘Waste to Wealth – Entrepreneurial opportunities’ here on Wednesday, environment and forests department secretary C V Sankar said the concepts of industries are changing and there is a need to change the process so that waste could be reused.
-
Recycling Recycling E-Waste for Moolah Magic
Even asthedigital revolution gains pace,theensuing by-product,continuesto get a shortshrift in thecountry. Itisexactly this messthatAtteroRecycling aimstoclean up. The five-year old Noida-based startup,
-
Ban on plastics to be enforced very strictly
Traders in Tirunelveli district still use them: Collector Since the traders across the district are still using and selling the use-and-throw non-recyclable non-degradable plastic bags and cups despite the ban that came into effect on June 1 last, District Collector R. Selvaraj has warned that the district administration would take all-out efforts and stringent measures to impose the ban completely and seize the banned products from the sellers.