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The Municipality of Cuttack, Odisha, is planning to set up an eco-park by the end of June 2024. The eco-park is expected to include an e-waste recycling facility. According to the source, e-waste as well…
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Aluminium producer Hindalco Industries has reportedly acquired 150 acres of land at the Payal Industrial Park in Dahej, Gujarat, for its copper and e-scrap recycling plant. According to earlier sources, the company plans to invest…
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To ensure that electronic waste is managed in an organized way, the Karnataka state government is working on a strict separate policy. The new policy is supposed to be implemented as soon as possible, as…
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Delhi-based e-waste recycler Prometheus Recycling is about to put its e-waste recycling plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, into operation. The recycling plant is said to recycle up to 30,000 metric tonnes of e-waste per year.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a written reply on December 8, informed the Rajya Sabha of the various initiatives his government is taking to formalize…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) is planning the segregation of electronic waste (e-waste) at the source and special arrangements will be made for the same in the garbage vans. Nashik municipal commissioner Chandrakant Pulkundwar on…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Pune Civic Corporation (PMC) has started a trial programme to collect electronic waste from Pune citizens, including old phone bills, TVs, PCs, and other devices. The PMC, Adaar Poonawala Clean City Initiative, and Purnam…
Aafrin Kidwai
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is constructing an integrated e-waste management facility at Sonarpur in the South 24-Parganas district. According to research conducted by the WBPCB and the West Bengal Electronic Development Corporation…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) effort to collect e-waste from every home in the city through door-to-door collection is received positive feedback from citizens. Many residents are contacting the local sanitation department and donating…
Aafrin Kidwai
Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, has informed the Lok Sabha under the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016, 21 types of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) have been notified. These…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) will install 50 e-waste collection bins in Bengaluru, including the Vidhana Soudha and the High Court. In addition, one hundred bins will be installed in other parts of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced an increase of 250 percent in its expenditure on solid waste management, as part of its ambitious ‘SWM vision 2030’ campaign. The campaign aims to create a favourable…
Aafrin Kidwai
Madhya Pradesh’s second e-waste recycling plant is being launched in Gwalior by Prometheus. The plant has reportedly received approval from the Pollution Control Board for handling hazardous and e-waste. The plant will reportedly manually segregate,…
Aafrin Kidwai
Various civic bodies across the country are seeing positive results for their plastic and electronic waste collection drives from households and industrial areas. Now, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has finalised a private contractor…
Aafrin Kidwai
India generated 10,14,961.2 tonnes of e-waste in 2020, which is a 31.6 per cent increase from 2019, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed the Rajya Sabha earlier this…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched weekly door-to-door collection of electronic waste (e-waste). The drive is being conducted to avoid the mixing of municipal solid waste with e-waste at the household level. The e-waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India has formulated a policy paper to address wastage in the use of electronics and the electrical sector. The paper titled “Circular Economy in Electronics…
Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh
India, the world’s third-largest electronic waste (e-waste) producer as per the United Nation’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020, is struggling to handle this toxic waste. The grim situation exists even though government documents suggest that the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) solid waste department has decided to organize a monthly collection program at 300 centres for e-waste and plastic waste. Recently, the PMC organized a one-day e-waste and plastic waste collection…
Aafrin Kidwai
E-waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams with an annual growth rate of 3-5%. New technology by IIT Delhi’s Chemical Engineering department has been developed as a sustainable solution to tackle the menace of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued directions for the implementation of E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 after observing that there were huge gaps in the compliance by the State Pollution Control…
Aafrin Kidwai
India collected just 10 per cent of the electronic waste (e-waste) estimated to have been generated in the country during 2018-19 and 3.5 per cent of e-waste generated in 2017-18, according to a recent report by…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
RLG India has launched a Clean To Green campaign in Chennai in association with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to free the environment of electronic waste. The campaign aims at the safe…
Aafrin Kidwai
Since 2016, when the Government of India notified the E-Waste (Management) Rules, several Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) set up operations for e-waste management in India. Yet several issues persist in terms of effectively enforcing and implementing…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Global E-Waste Monitor identifies e-waste as the fastest growing waste stream in the world. India generated 3.2 million metric tonnes of e-waste in 2019 alone, making it the third-largest contributor to e-waste in the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following a directive by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) earlier in February this year, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has recommended setting up a pilot fine pulverization unit to manage the potential environmental risk…
Aafrin Kidwai
The recently released Global E-waste Monitor estimated that the world generated a phenomenal 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste or an average of 7.3 kilogram per capita last year. The total e-waste generation has increased…
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United Global Trust is planning to setup a new electronic waste recycling facility in Guwahati, Assam, which will serve eight states in northeast India. The project is supported by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).…
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The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has given approval to Indian-based Cerebra Integrated Technologies to start operations at the company’s new e-waste recycling facility in the Narasapura industrial area, Kolar district. At the plant, electronic…
