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 …
Electronic waste, or "e-waste", is a major problem of the information age. As consumers continually upgrade their electronic devices, the old devices are discarded and usually end up in a toxic e-waste dump, usually located in a poor developing country. Such a dump is located in the capital city of …
This guide ranks leading mobile phone, TV and PC manufacturers on policies and practices to reduce their impact on the climate, produce greener products and make their operations more sustainable.
As Greenpeace completes 10 years in India, it chalks up its successes and faces some flak. Kunal Majumder looks at both sides of the story WHEN GREENPEACE India listed 33 successful campaigns to celebrate its first decade in the country, the Copenhagen meet on climate change held two years ago …
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has prepared this discussion paper on “Collection and recycling of waste paper in India”, with the objective of developing a suitable policy framework to define the obligations of producers and users, to sensitize the citizens to improve the segregation, collection and reuse of …
In an effort to prevent e-waste being broken down by rudimentary hazardous methods by people in the informal sector, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has asked local bodies, including the Chennai Corporation, to set up e-waste collection centres. TNPCB Member Secretary K.Karthikeyan said that only five per cent …
The present technical guidelines provide guidance for transboundary movements of used electrical and electronic equipment (further used equipment), in particular on the distinction between waste and non-waste pursuant to decisions IX/16 of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes …
This paper is a preliminary attempt to illustrate and quantify the harm being caused to human health or the environment by the transboundary movements of hazardous waste.
This study aims at examining the current practice of recycling e-waste in the informal sectors of Bangladesh and identifying the problems towards development of a system of hazard-free e-waste recycling in the country. It is based on both primary and secondary data sources. The sample comprised of owners and workers …
The Central Pollution Control Board has set alarm bells ringing with its latest findings of nearly 7.5-fold increase in generation of e-waste material in the country by 2012. From the estimated 1.47 lakh MT of e-waste that was generated in the country in 2005, it is expected to rise to …
New Delhi: Plastic salvaged from electronic waste is posing serious health and environmental hazards. Environmentalists have pointed out that toxic plastic is being recycled and toys and other household items made out of it, which is hazardous not only for those involved in the recycling work but also for the …
KOLKATA, 31 AUG: The state government has devised a multi-pronged strategy to curb growing environmental degradation, including development of appropriate technology to curb industrial and other pollution, and introduction of environment guards. Environment minister Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said a committee has been set up to suggest ways to tackle …
Over 2,000 tons of E-waste had been collected under the National E-waste Management Programme, a Central Environmental Authority spokesman told the Daily News Tuesday. He said that 1400 tons had been collected last year after the commencement of the programme and 600 tons had been collected upto July this year. …
The West Bengal Government has devised a multi-pronged strategy to curb the growing environmental degradation including development of appropriate technology to curb industrial and other pollution and introduction of environment guards. The Environment Minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, said a committee has been set up to suggest ways to tackle …
BHUBANESWAR: Leading hardware solutions provider, Jetking, on Thursday expressed interest in e-waste management in the State. Jetking is willing to partner with Orissa Computer Applications Centre (OCAC) for the project. Joint Managing Director of Jetking Nandu G Bharwani met Information and Technology Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi and submitted a proposal. …
TNPCB official advocates use of bio-degradable materials The recovery system to extract hazardous metals from electronic wastes has to be improved in the State, according to R.Ramachandran, Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). While there were 12 units for segregating e-wastes and exporting them for recovery of toxic …
Handing over e-waste to the nearest waste collector may not be a good idea A decade-old computer system, a dozen broken CDs, an old cell phone or two and chargers, and an old television set – items that would still be part of many households. If you thought giving them …
With India becoming a dumping ground of e-waste from the West which is seriously impacting environment and human health, the draft notification of E-waste Management & Handling Rules, released in May 2010, clearly proposed “banning of import”. But the final E-waste Rules, notified this year surreptitiously avoids mention of e-waste …
Every 20 minutes, two laptops from India relay their location to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The location is determined using Google’s geolocation application programming interface (API) and a picture from the laptops' in-built cameras. Two volunteers from India (one from Kolkata), whose identities have been protected …
Singer Sri Lanka was amongst the first companies to partner with the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) in its battle against the growth of electronic waste (or e-waste) and since signing onto the National Co-operate E-Waste Management initiative, Singer Sri Lanka was also the first to begin e-waste collections and how …
KOCHI: Following the footsteps of major cities in the country, Kochi too is marching ahead in its quest to curb the e-waste menace. The Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI), the participating agency for the integrated environment awareness programme organised by the Kochi Corporation, has come up …
