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 …
This report submitted to MoEF provides a road map for managing wastes in India. Examines existing administrative and regulatory mechanisms to manage various types of waste and details strategies for sustainable waste management. Rapid economic growth is leading to urbanization and industrialization generating waste which is adversely effecting the environment. …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has requested the APSF to contribute to exchange of knowledge on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (hereafter referred to as e-waste), ship dismantling and the remediation of contaminated sites. For e-waste, an EU-India workshop was conducted in New Delhi on 2 February 2010, …
MP Pollution Control Board Chairman Dr NP Shukla said that e-waste which includes electrical and electronic products and their parts are now emerging as a serious challenge in all cities and rural areas. According to an estimate by the year 2012 e-waste would be about 80-lakh tons, which has to …
Due to economic progress production of electrical and electronic items has gone up considerably in the country. These products are being updated frequently and the old products become outdated and replaced by the new technology products. We call these outdated products as e-waste. The e-waste is growing rapidly. According to …
This report on inventorization of e-waste in Hyderabad and Bangalore reveals that e-waste generation from household sector alone is expected to touch 1,07,886 MT in 2013 in Hyderabad and 1,30,383 MT in 2013 in Bangalore. Says that e-wastes in these two cities are going to increase due to high obsolescence …
WIPRO Infotech, the India and Middle East IT arm of Wipro, on Thursday launched its eco-friendly and toxinfree desktops, manufactured with materials free of deadly chemicals. Based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Wipro Greenware range of desktops are free from carcinogenic materials such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi January 27, 2010, 0:22 IST With electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) emerging as the new by-products of fast economic growth, the Union environment ministry is framing rules that pin the responsibility for disposal on the producer. Eleven recycling units are expected to come up soon …
THE Copenhagen summit last month may have failed to persuade world leaders to come up with a global treaty to tackle climate change, but it seems to have inspired Indian advertisers and marketers to join the green brandwagon. Idea Cellular
Recycled plastics, solar recharge, E-manuals, low power consumption chargers, green calculator, minimised packaging, take-back options - with mobile phone companies waving the green flag, it
RASHME SEHGAL India, being a major IT destination, is presently producing 400,000 tonnes of e-waste annually The campaign launched by civil society groups against the huge quantities of toxic waste being generated in India has forced the United Nations to send UN special rapporteur Okechukwu Ibeanu to get a first …
Vandana Kamath, Bangalore, Dec 28, DHNS: If you don't know where to dispose your old television, refrigerators or any other electronic equipment that doesn't work and is lying dusty in the corner of your house, here
NIVI SHRIVASTAVA The increase in e-pollution is prompting many to recycle and manage e-waste o Dh p o you ever wonder what appens to the old cellhones, laptops and Personal Computers (PC) when you replace them with the latest models? Most of us aren't even aware that after selling the …
The Good Earth Subhash Arya's underground alternative to air-conditioning has fought cynicism and inertia and is nowbeating the heat. The office of the Commercial Taxes Department in Jaipur is the only building in the desert state of Rajasthan to have a earth tunnel cooling system. Constructed by the Rajasthan State …
KOCHI: E-waste disposal is a matter of concern for environmentalists and socially committed groups especially in developing countries. The third world countries are the worst sufferers as they have traditionally been the dumping yards for hazardous e-waste from developed nations. India is no exception and it is estimated that around …
IN ONE section of the university building where I teach, there is an enormous and motley collection of discarded computer-related items, stacked and piled in an unwieldy mess. This has been lying around for a while now, nearly a year, not only because of the prolonged bureaucratic procedures involved in …
