ELECTRICAL and electronic equipment produced in India will not contain toxic substances like cadmium, mercury and lead, according to a new legislation on managing growing e-waste. E-Waste (Management and Handling) Rules that specify EU norms for Indian electronics, will be effective from 2012. Reduction in the Use of Hazardous Substances …
As a kid, Jonathan Watts had nightmares about China. “If everyone in China jumps at exactly the same time, it will shake the earth off its axis and kill us all,” he thought. The apocalyptic thought came back to him in 2003 when he moved to Beijing as The Guardian’s …
THE management of huge and growing quantities of electronic waste may emerge as one of the more important environmental problems of developing countries in the near future. It is a sight that is increasingly only too common in urban India, and now even in some more prosperous rural areas of …
It took a much-publicised Greenpeace agitation in 2005 two years to achieve its desired result - make Wipro Infotech come out with a range of eco-friendly desktops in June 2007. Unfortunately, it will need a more sustained movement to curb the growing electronic waste menace- which is bound to gain …
Thousands of tons of used computers and obsolete electronic equipment, which contain large amounts of hazardous waste, are being brought into Pakistan with complete disregard to the grave risks they pose to human and environmental health, Dawn has learnt. Tens of thousands of used computers and related equipment, which are …
New York is a step closer to adopting one of the toughest electronics recycling laws in the nation, despite strong objections from manufacturers and mayor Michael R Bloomberg. The city council approved a Bill last week that would impose a $100 fine on anyone who throws an old computer, printer …
