The global e-waste monitor 2024
<p>The world's electronic waste generation is increasing five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, according to the United Nation's fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) report.</p>
Electronic Waste
-
City wakes up to e-waste woes, firms up plant plan
Mumbai, November 19 With the commercial capital leading the country
-
CVAC office bearers hailed by Greenpeace
HERALD REPORTER VASCO, NOV 8 Greenpeace, internationally renowned organization, has praised and thanked the members of Chicalim Villagers Action Committee (CVAC) for the help given to them during their protest action programme in Goa, recently. CVAC office bearers Cyril Fernandes and Rui Manuel Costa Araujo were hailed for the helping hands during the protest.
-
Students show the right way
Visakhapatnam, Oct. 13: A project to tackle e-waste conceived by students of Gitam University gained applause at the Students in Free Enterprise
-
Enter e-waste, insert curse
Visakhapatnam , Oct. 13: The Information Technology revolution has brought many blessings and one major curse
-
Mobile phone threaten to pollute water resources
Sajimon P S: HOW many cell phones have you used till today? Know where all those old phones you sold have gone? Any idea what happened to the lead, the plastic and the antimony in those phones you happily got rid of ? The bad news is that they are going to come right back to bite you.
-
E-waste recycling in India: From vicious to virtuous circle!
India has had a very long history of recycling, which has continued to be practiced in an informal set up mostly by urban poor. From paper, old bottles, plastics, clothes to old machineries- all are seen as potential income source and have been reused and recycled to earn revenue. Ewaste is relatively new entrant to this long list of profitable, recyclable items.
-
Law sought to regulate e-waste
DH News Service, Bangalore: The need to bring about a legislation to manage e-waste was emphasised by speakers at a national workshop on environmentally sound management of e-waste, organised in the City, on Thursday.
-
Used electronics' flow to India poses environmental hazard
Leslie D`monte / Mumbai September 20, 2008, 0:32 IST