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 …
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has launched an awareness campaign for the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) and Market Traders Associations (MTAs) on the issue of collection and disposal of electronic waste (e-waste) in environment friendly manner. The NDMC has decided to provide e-bins for e-waste collection to all RWAs …
Manufacturing units and other industries may have to pay penalties if they don’t manage solid waste generated by them at source. The government plans to introduce legislation that will mandate manufacturers to segregate waste at source, said Urban Development Minister S Suresh Kumar. Kumar made the announcement on Tuesday, while …
Increasing misuse of chemicals is causing health and environmental damage especially in emerging economies and governments must do more to carry out a promised clean-up by 2020, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Production and use of chemicals - from plastics to pesticides - is shifting to developing nations …
The garbage issue does not show any sign of abating in the city as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is still finding it hard to tackle the situation. With communities living near dump yards that are largely unscientific erupting into protests, the civic body is striving to find a …
As the digital switchover approaches, Ireland is set to see television CRT waste rocket by more than 25% as people make the decision to upgrade or change their set. The estimations come from WEEE Ireland, the electrical and battery recycling scheme who say that 500,000 televisions were bought by Irish …
Three months after new rules on collection and disposal of electronic waste came into effect, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has collected seven tonnes of ewaste. It has tied up with a private firm for recycling of the ewaste in Roorkee. The Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi …
New Delhi: New electronic waste management and handling rules were implemented acrossthecountry on May 1 this year. The new laws make it mandatory for producers of electronic goods to take back e-waste under the extended producers responsibility. However, Delhi, as one of the biggest producers of e-waste in the country …
Bangalore The Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has urged the Union ministry of environment & forests to address the hindrances faced in the successful implementation of e-waste management rules calling for simplification of the existing regulations. Some of the issues which have been raised by MAIT relate to multiple …
More than half the bulky waste taken to household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs) could be re-used says the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). According to a report released yesterday called the 'Composition and re-usability of bulky waste in the UK,' there is a common misconception that when bulky …
KOLKATA: Concerned over the increasing generation of electronic waste (e-waste) in the city, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has taken up an initiative to conduct workshops amongst all the stakeholders to generate awareness for proper and effective disposal of e-waste. In the city, a large quantity of e-waste …
Kerala Sanitation Mission to provide technical support In a boost to the anti-litter campaign of the City Corporation, over 1,200 households coming under 12 residents’ associations in and around West Hill here have drawn up a plan to set up their own biodegradable-waste-treatment units. The Kerala Sanitation Mission will team …
NASA, the US space agency has included two Indian innovators for its conference on waste management. Mr Nitin Gupta from Attero Recycling and Mr Anshu Goonj from Goonj are among nine innovators from across the globe that made it to the NASA conference on waste management, which started yesterday. Supported …
Read the final guidelines prepared by MoEF and CPCB for implementation of the provisions of the E-Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2011. This also provides guidance on setting up collection mechanism, dismantling and recycling operations. The E-waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2011 have been notified with primary objective to channelize …
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 health controls need to be addressed. It is also important to create mass awareness and make it easier for the …
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 …
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 …
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, founded by brothers Rohan and Nitin Gupta, handles almost 500 tonnes of e-waste every month. Attero has developed its own proprietory technology that extracts precious metals, including, copper, lead …
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board is vexed over the rampant burning of household trash in personal backyards in complete violation of instructions from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Pollution control experts say that when household garbage is burnt, Dioxins, a known carcinogen, associated also with birth defects, are released …
With the available waste management policies, including e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 silent on handling of used fluorescent tubelights (FTLs), which contain mercury, the Puducherry Pollution Control Committee is in the process of framing a draft policy for safe management of FTLs. The core element of the policy, according …
The government is planning to study the consumption pattern of electronic equipment in the country in order to decide targets for their manufacturers on the minimum volume of e-waste — discarded electronic material — they are supposed to get collected from consumers in a year and then get them recycled, …
