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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Toxic Issues
The ship-breaking industry is booming, but official India is only half-concerned about the many hazards. (Editorial)
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Villagers say no steel plant in Chandil
- Squat protest by 200 at pollution board public hearing Over 200 villagers voiced their opposition to an integrated steel plant at a public hearing organised by the state pollution control board at a village in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district today, in yet another indication of local residents
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Apple, Sony Ericsson Demonstrate Best Practices in Green Electronics
Seven companies have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most--or in some cases all--uses of brominated and chlorinated chemicals in consumer electronics, according to a new report.
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Assessment of precious metal flows during preprocessing of waste electrical and electronic equipment
The manufacturing of electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) is a major demand sector for precious and special metals with a strong growth potential. Both precious and special metals are contained in complex components with only small concentrations per unit.
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Using material flow analysis to illuminate long-term waste management solutions in Oahu, Hawaii
Home to the capital city and nearly a million people, the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii, USA, is highly dependent on external resources. Over the past decade, large-scale agricultural production has diminished dramatically, leaving the island greatly reliant on imports for food and most other basic goods.
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Scenarios of waste management for a waste emergency area: A substance flow analysis
In the Campania region, an area in the south of Italy with 5.7 million inhabitants and a production of about 7,900 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day, an emergency situation was created by inappropriate waste management policy and practice. In order to support decisions regarding future solutions for this crisis, reliable, transparent, and impartial strategies and concepts are needed.
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Analyzing polyvinyl chloride in Japan with the waste input?output material flow analysis mode
Effective life cycle management of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) calls for the separation of end-of-life PVC products at the time of collection not only from other wastes but among different PVC types as well. Information about the flow of PVC products in the economy is important for this purpose.
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A material flow analysis of phosphorus in Japan : The iron and steel industry as a major phosphorus source
The demand for biofuels has recently increased because of rising prices of fossil fuels and diversification of energy resources. As a result, the demand for sugarcane and corn has been increasing, not only for food production, but also as sources of energy.
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Material flow analysis in the aluminum industry
The global aluminum industry, as part of its program of materials stewardship, is encouraging industry to collect and reuse aluminium by "mining the infrastructure of society". For such urban mining to take place, industries need to understand comprehensively the complete life cycle of aluminum and its products.
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Mass lead intoxication from informal used lead-acid battery recycling in Dakar, Senegal
Between November 2007 and March 2008, 18 children died from a rapidly progressive central nervous system disease of unexplained origin in a community involved in the recycling of used lead-acid batteries (ULAB) in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. The researchers investigated the cause of these deaths.