E-Waste

India is likely to generate 5.2 million tonnes of e-waste per year by 2020, up from 2 million tonnes in 2016, according to a recent ASSOCHAM-EY joint study ...

Haribaabu Naatesan, an artist from Mumbai creates art using the electronic waste like old CDs, mobile phones, laptops and parts of microwave and washing machines which might otherwise end up in landfills ...

The report, "A new circular vision for electronics - Time for a global reboot", launched in Davos, suggests that technologies such as cloud computing and the internet of things support gradual "dematerialisation" of the electronics industry ...

Expressing concerns over the harmful effects of a toxic chemical element antimony which is widely used in coating solar panels, the National Green Tribunal has asked the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Environment and Forests and other stakeholders to come out with a policy or a set of rules for proper disposal of solar panels with antimony ...

A group of researchers from the Nagpur-based Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology have found a way to recycle the dry-cell batteries and obtain graphene also referred to as ‘new wonder material’ ...

International Finance Corporation is working to build a locally relevant e-waste management solution across all states of India focusing on generating awareness, developing knowledge and supporting e-waste management ecosystem through Producer Responsibility Organization model ...

Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said that a plant to covert plastic waste into bio-diesel, will be made operational at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) in Dehradun by the end of January on pilot basis after which the model will be replicated across the country ...

The study done by Cerebra Green and Manufacturers Associations of Information and Technology revealed that another 30 per cent of Indians kept 3-4 articles whereas 20 per cent hoarded five or more unused e-waste devices for several years, thereby increasing the possibility of their incorrect disposal ...

The 'Clean E-Bhubaneswar' programme, undertaken with the support of International Finance Corporation (IFC) and European Union, is being implemented by IFC under IFCEU Eco-Cities Programme to address Bhubaneswar's e-waste management challenge ...

1,000 kilos of e-waste was collected in one year at the recycling centre at Dhankawadi in Pune, thanks to the efforts of waste pickers ...

Veena Sahajwalla, a scientist in Sydney, is the inventor of ‘microfactories’ that claims transform e-waste into reusable material to be converted into ceramics and plastic filaments for 3D printing ...

According to a joint study by ASSOCHAM-NEC, Maharashtra contributes the most to the 2 million tonnes of e-waste generated in India. The state generates 19.8 per cent (3,96,000 tonnes per annum) of country’s e-waste, but recycles only about 47,810 tonnes per annum ...