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>
<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>
In the current recycling system of end-of-life (EoL) appliances, which is based on shredding, alloying elements tend to end up in the scrap of base metals. The uncontrolled mixing of alloying elements contaminates secondary metals and calls for dilution with primary metals.
Seven years after it was announced from the Red Fort and after seven unsuccessful pilot projects in the Tenth Plan, the government is now looking towards the corporate sector for implementation of former president A P J Abdul Kalam
Indore: The water supply from phase-III of Narmada Water Supply Augmentation Project in Indore will begin from the current month itself. The cost of the scheme developed under Project Uday is Rs 675 crore. Under the scheme, 360 MLD additional water can be supplied to Indore and Mhow.
Deputy Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday unveiled the State government's e-waste policy. The policy sets forth the position of the State government on e-waste management by identifying the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders, including the public, in reducing the generation of e-waste and providing a system for its collection, segregation and recycling.
KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has failed to implement a proper system of checks and balances in its solid waste management department. As a result there is ample scope of pilferage, including the existence of surplus staff in the payrolls of the solid waste management department.
PRASHANT PANDEY NEW DELHI The capital has scored poorly on the sanitation and waste management in the ratings of the union urban development. Though two of Its urban local bodies figured among the top five, the third and the biggest urban local body, the MCD, figured very poorly on the ratings.
New Delhi: On April 22, we asked readers to
The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) has given clearance to a private waste management company to dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste of the now-defunct Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)'s pesticide plant, officials said.
UN-Water and the United Nations Secretary-General
Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) retained National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) for conducting Environmental Post Evaluation of the Projects under the Schemes in the Taj Trapezium Zone. The objectives of the study was to see improvement in environmental quality on the environs of Taj Mahal and other historical monuments, to provide