Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
BENGALURU: The city is the third-largest producer of e-waste in India, preceded by Mumbai and Delhi. But Bengaluru's official recycling units are woefully underutilised as around 70 per cent of e-waste is handled by the unorganised sector and the rest by organisations registered with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board …
In Nigeria, an entire industry thrives on the demand for imported second-hand electronic goods. Urban mining is when electronic items are broken apart and then stripped of precious metals such as gold, silver, palladium and others. This poses a danger to the environment and also to people’s health. Al Jazeera’s …
Germany is to support Ghana with €25 million euros to tackle its growing electronic waste menace. The fund is to support the establishment of structures for the effective collection and recycling of e-waste, which had become an environment and health threat in the country over the last decade. The Ambassador …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Disposal of Nuclear Waste, 29/03/2017. The quantity of low and intermediate level waste to be stored at the site is about 0.15 cubic meters/year/MW. A comprehensive radioactive waste management system is established taking into account the operational capability under the supervision of an independent …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Rise in electronic waste, 27/03/2017. The country’s economic growth, rise in per capita income, and technological innovations coupled with high obsolescence rate of electronic and electrical equipment to increase in the rate of generation of e-waste. Toxic constituents such as Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent …
Environment Minister said that government has decided to take remedial measures including the safe disposal of identified quantity of hazardous waste of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) in Bhopal. The government has decided to dispose of safely the hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Management of e-waste , 20/03/2017. The policy framework for environmentally sound management of e-waste is laid down in E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 which was notified in March, 2016. The provisions of these Rules include expanded producers’ responsibility, setting up of producer responsibility organizations and …
Uncontrolled hazardous wastes sites have the potential to adversely impact human health and damage or disrupt ecological systems and the greater environment. Four decades have passed since the Superfund law was enacted, allowing increased exposure time to these potential health hazards while also allowing advancement of analysis techniques. Florida has …
A company facing criminal prosecution for alleged "toxic emissions" from its landfill site in Shongweni, west of Durban is attempting to silence one of its most vocal critics. Enviroserve says London-based programme manager Jeremy Everitt, who owns a house near the landfill site in which his sister and nephew live, …
Toxic waste has been dumped in a farming town in southeast Nigeria's restive oil-producing Delta region, a state government official and a community leader said on Wednesday. The community leader, Collins Edema, president of the National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, said the waste was dangerous to both agricultural produce and …
The oil-producing community of Koko in Warri North Local Council of Delta State has alleged that a company operating in the area (name withheld) was sand-filling the toxic dumpsite it exposed a day ago apparently to cover up the evidence. Community leaders Tony Ede, Eyitemi Brown-Dibofun, and Benson O. Asamat …
In the latest publication of the project Middle East North Africa Sustainable ELECtricity Trajectories (MENA-SELECT), the authors Boris Schinke and Jens Klawitter (Germanwatch) together with Maurice Döring (BICC), Nadejda Komendantova (IIASA), Jenan Irshaid (IIASA) and Joanne Bayer (IIASA) develop criteria and indicators for conducting a sustainability assessment of different electricity …
Plastics have boosted our economy because they are highly flexible, durable, and cheap. However, their massive use has created an enormous global problem with environmental, economic, social, and health repercussions. Existing international measures to deal with plastic pollution are insufficient to successfully addressing the problem. So legal provisions banning the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India dated 17/02/2017 regarding hazardous waste in India in the matter of Research Foundation for Science Vs Union of India & Others. Supreme Court directs government of India to file a consolidated affidavit, in response to the issues raised, within four weeks thereafter.
The volume of discarded electronics in East and South-East Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast in both total volume and per capita measures, new UNU research shows. Driven by rising incomes and high demand for new gadgets and appliances, the average increase …
Despite spending more than R10-million over nine months to resolve a massive stink, Enviroserv’s Shongweni landfill site, which receives vast quantities of “hazardous, not necessarily toxic” waste, faces a shutdown by the Department of Environmental Affairs. Parties guilty of air pollution emanating from the landfill might also face criminal prosecution. …
The draft guidelines for pre-processing and co-processing of hazardous and other wastes in cement plants as per Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2016 has been prepared by CPCB. Recently notified Rules on management of Hazardous and Other Wastes, outlines the hierarchy of wastes management, wherein, prevention, …
Levels of electronic waste are rising sharply across Asia, as higher incomes mean hundreds of millions of people can afford smartphones and other gadgets, according to a UN study. The amount of e-waste in Asia has risen by 63% in five years, a report by United Nations University said, warning …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s. Swan Tanning Industries Vs. Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 11/01/2017 regarding pollution caused by M/s. Swan Tanning Industries, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The joint inspection report dated 11th January, 2017 filed before NGT states that the unit does …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Prof. Ravindra Bajarang Shinde Vrs. The Principal Secretary, Environment Department & Others regarding management of non-biodegradable garbage in Madhya Pradesh. Counsel appearing on behalf of the MPCB submits that they will be placing an elaborate statement …
