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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"Govt. needs to enforce laws to promote recycling"
In an interview Zain Nathani, managing director of Nathani Industrial Services Private Limited, details the various factors that are chocking the growth of recycling industry in India.
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Turning waste into wealth
How a waste recycling project in Kerala has helped to transform the community around it is an amazing story, to say the least. It is the story which has the potential to be replicated across India.
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Time to tackle e-waste
Every single gadget we use will sooner or later end up in a trash can. Computers, mobile phones, DVD players, TV sets, will all be junk. From a computer penetration density of less than 10 per 1000 population in 2005, India will exceed 60 per 1000 in 2010. Mobile phones will touch 300 million and TV sets over 140 million.
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Trash or treasure? Putting coal combustion waste to work
Even as public debate rages over the question of whether coal should continue to provide the majority of U.S. electric power needs, the U.S.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle: Laws of the land
There is a set of local laws for importing of scrap and waste. However, there is a need to have a general legislation for environmental protection, says the author.
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E-waste recycling an industry in making
India's e-waste generation is reportedly growing at a rate of more than 20 per cent and is expected to cross 800,000 tonne mark by 2011. This is a huge business opportunity and many are now seen entering the sector.
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Recycle route to go green
Not many are aware that more than 80 per cent of a vehicle by weight can be reused, remanufactured or recycled in some way and protect the environment from the hazardous materials. If not all parts of the automobiles could be recycled, tanks, batteries and tires constitute the list of inevitable parts that should go into recycling to protect the environment.
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National 3R strategy development: a progress report on seven countries in Asia from 2005 to 2009
The Programme of National 3R Strategy Development was initiated as one of the outcomes of the Ministerial Conference on the 3R Initiative held in Tokyo, Japan, in March 2005.
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Improved organic waste management: climate benefits through the 3Rs in developing Asian countries
This report consists of four main sections. In the first part, it presents data from the national GHG inventories of a number of developing Asian countries, identifies the main sources of GHG emissions from the waste sector, and analyses the national climate strategies of selected countries. Secondly, the report presents data on the potential climate benefits of the 3Rs. It