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 …
Mumbai: The Maharashtra E Waste Association (MEWA) which conducted a seminar to discuss the draft E-Waste (Handling and Management) Rules, 2010, on Friday, has asked that the rules be made simpler with clear guidelines on the process of disposing of e-waste. E-waste is electric or electronic waste which needs to …
Mumbai: With the rise in use of electronic goods, the amount of e-waste produced has also risen to alarming levels. To address the issue, the Maharashtra E-Waste Association (Mewa) has been invited by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to get suggestions on the draft of the E-Waste (Handling …
The European Union (EU) is providing technical expertise to the Government as it drafts a policy framework for waste management, said Ms Daniele Smadja, Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union in India, while addressing a two-day FICCI Environment Conclave 2010. She said that the cooperation in …
Utilization of waste materials and by-products is a partial solution to environmental and ecological problems. Use of these materials not only helps in getting them utilized in cement, concrete and other construction materials, it helps in reducing the cost of cement and concrete manufacturing, but also has numerous indirect benefits …
The uses of electronic and electrical devices have relatively increased with rapid increases in economic and technological development over some period of time in Malaysia. There is needs for Malaysia to apply “3R” principles of reduce, reuse and recycle for efficient control and management of material circle of electronic and …
The Pakistan government is mulling a ban on import of used electronic goods, especially computers and its accessories. Electronic goods’ dealers and importers are against such a ban saying most Pakistanis can afford only used computers. Environmental activists and academics said import of electronic goods should be regulated as many …
Should India import and reprocess the world’s growing mountains of junk and toxic garbage? Should this become our business opportunity, capitalizing on the fact that rich countries need cheaper and more efficient ways of dealing with their waste—everything from electronic to medical? The question is if we can manage the …
Kirtika Suneja & Ruchika Chitravanshi / New Delhi June 05, 2010, 0:07 IST The increase in availability of second-hand computers in India has become a matter of concern not just for the trade and commerce sector but also for the environment. On an average, India generates 25,000 second-hand computers every …
Kirtika Suneja / Roorkee (uttar Pradesh) June 05, 2010, 0:06 IST It's a bit of an obvious thing to do, but Attero Recycling has its plant in a green building. About 10 kilometres from Roorkee on the road to Dehradun, it is difficult to miss. As we reach the gates, …
Around 200 students from various schools participated in the World Environment Week celebrations which commenced in Chandigarh on Tuesday. On the occasion, a cycle rally was organised jointly by CII-Yi, Sai Tara Ummat Foundation and CPTL - Envirotech. The theme of the rally was
The government will soon introduce rules to regulate informal e-waste recycling sector, but the formal sector itself is flouting regulations. Read this DTE investigative report on the thriving "illegal trade of e-waste" and dangerous working conditions.To know more click on the following URL: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20100531&filename=news&sid=37&sec_id=9See AlsoLegislation: E-waste Rules, 2010.www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/304182Report: An assessment …
Arnab Pratim Dutta visited Attero’s recycling unit in Roorkee, posing as a scrap dealer from Moradabad Attero, India’s recognized recycling facility for e-waste, is about 20 minutes from Roorkee. Its walls and gates are about eight feet high. A signboard warns of CCTV. The security guards have orders to prevent …
Naveed, along with his wife Khalida and their three daughters, wakes up every morning to extract gold and copper from circuit boards of dismantled computers (see: graphic). He can tell without difficulty which motherboard is from China, and which one from Japan. The Japanese circuit boards are better, he says, …
Illegally imported e-waste reaches the Seelampur market every second day, said a 35-year-old trader in Delhi’s Nehru Place market. He runs a showroom of laptops and stores secondhand computers in the basement. “I know importing waste is illegal. But as long as ships come in, so do profits. My business …
Three months ago, in March, customs officials at the Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu seized 20 containers carrying 500 tonnes of diapers, sanitary napkins, under-garments, surgical gloves—all used—along with shoe soles, broken toys, perfume bottles, aluminium foil packing material, batteries and bottles. These products, labelled waste paper consignment, were on …
Collection centres from September, assures Chennai Corporation of corporations, municipalities, town panchayats and panchayats to take up the task of organising e-waste collection, especially from household and other end users, and segregation of e-waste from other household waste. Is the Chennai prepared to handle the task? According to Corporation Commissioner …
Gokul Chandraseka Almost 30 per cent of the total e-waste imported to the country comes under the garb of charity or donations A sizeable chunk of e waste enters the coun try in the garb of charity. That could be curbed if the Centre's draft e-waste (management & handling) rules …
