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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Garage recyclers of e-waste are the new threat
Jagadish Angadi, Bangalore, April 21, DH News Service: Backyard practitioners of e-waste pose a new and dangerous threat to the City
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Plastic waste to be bought from residents
The decision to purchase recyclable plastic waste would encourage source segregation and help in better waste management. CHENNAI: Mayor M.Subramanian on Tuesday announced that the Chennai Corporation would purchase recyclable plastic waste from residents at Rs.2 per kg.
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Green nod sought for projects worth Rs 60,000 cr
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai April 6, 2010, 0:37 IST The fate of industrial projects worth over Rs 60,000 crore will be decided by an expert committee of the environment ministry at a two-day meeting beginning Wednesday. The committee will take up 32 new proposals, including modernisation and expansion of steel, aluminium and cement plants belonging to the top-notch companies.
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Award for e-waste recycler
P Parthsarathy, e-waste recycler of Bangalore, was honoured recently during the 20th Foundation Day of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in New Delhi. The Union Minister for Finance Pranab Mukherjee honoured Parthsarathy by presenting him a memento.
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Mechanical strength of fibrous concrete with waste rural materials
<p>This study presents reusing of locally available waste fibrous materials as concrete composites. Mechanical strength properties (compressive strength, split tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, modulus of rupture and shear strength) of synthetic fibres (nylon, plastic and tyre) with volume fractions (0.5%, 1% and 1.5%) and aspect ratios (30, 60 and 90) were evaluated.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/7718" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
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Reducing life cycle environmental impacts of waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling : Case study on dishwashers
Collection and treatment of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is regulated in the European Union by the WEEE Directive. Producers are responsible for take-back and recycling of discarded equipment. Valuable materials are, however, at risk of "getting lost" in current processes. Thus, strategies to minimize losses are sought after.
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Recycling of solid waste and the `Yan Bola underground economy: A survey of environmental entrepreneurs in Central Nigeria
In a society where environmental concerns over inadequate disposal of hazardous liquid and solid wastes and recycling are officially treated with somewhat nonchalance, the activities of human scavengers of metal, rubber, paper/paperboard yard and wood waste products, variously referred
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Industrial recycling networks as starting points for broader sustainability-oriented cooperation?
Closing loops by intercompany recycling of by-products is a core theme of industrial ecology (IE). This article considers whether industrial recycling networks or industrial symbiosis projects can be used as a starting point for much broader intercompany cooperation for sustainable development.
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The productive garden: An experience in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
As part of the RUAF
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E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2010
The Central Government considers it necessary in the public interest and to enable the recovery and/or reuse of useful material from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), thereby reducing the hazardous wastes destined for disposal and to ensure the environmentally sound management of all types of waste electrical and electronic equipment.