India: A new law to tackle e-waste disposal may impact a sizeable workforce in the unorganised sector.
When it comes to international environmental challenges, climate change is among the most commonly cited top priorities. But EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today added e-waste and four other issues to the agency's areas of focus.
Even with the Basel Convention prohibiting International waste transfer, the dumping of e-waste into the Nigerian market and the rest of the African sub-region has continued to grow in geometric progression attracting both national and international...
Chilean tech recycling company Recycla has reached capacity to separate 4,000 tonnes per year of waste, following the opening of its expanded waste separation plant. Located in capital Santiago's Pudahuel district, the plant - which used to...
India has opposed suggestion by some developed countries for more liberal trade in remanufactured goods or refurbished old products fearing it could harm the country’s domestic industry and also have environmental ramifications.
The New York Times Magazine published a photo essay titled “Dumping Across the Digital Divide” this week, which documents the dumping and hazardous management of electronic waste in Ghana. (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/...
IT charity Computer Aid has criticised environmental legislation for promoting recycling over reuse of IT hardware, which it claims is a more sustainable use of second-hand equipment.
Solar cells are everywhere these days, from household rooftops to handheld devices, powering up with the sun is popular. However, while solar cells allow us to harvest renewable energy, a lot of problematic materials go into creating them, and their...
Old televisions and computers containing hazardous substances are still being exported from Europe despite a ban aimed at stopping the trade, which poisons workers at makeshift recycling plants in Africa and Asia. In Rotterdam a Dutch customs...
Kenya is courting an environmental disaster from increased electronic scrap (e-waste) unless it quickly sets up rules to curb importation of the products. The International Telecommunication Union warns that the rate at which electronic waste...
Communications equipment manufacturers, Nokia, launched a campaign on Friday in association with Ghana's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aimed at helping to control conditions the precipitated climate change and environmental degradation....
We all know there's gold in them thar hills - but what about the ruthenium in them thar garbage dumps? As we have reported, the world is facing looming shortages of ruthenium, and other metals few people have ever heard of - indium, tellurium,...
As the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean, Costa Rica through its Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications approved a comprehensive producer responsibility regulation for electronic products.
The Basel Action Network, an American watchdog group that has sought to curb the export of toxic electronic waste from the United States, plans to begin a new certification and auditing program on Thursday for both recyclers and companies that...
A ship laden with toxic products, otherwise known as e-wastes, is due to arrive in Lagos port tomorrow, a Dutch agency, VROM-Inspectorate and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) have alerted the Federal...
NEW DELHI: The plastic scrap market in Mundka which caught fire early morning on Sunday was a big dumping ground for electronic waste items. Several tonnes of hazardous e-waste — discarded television sets, computers, photocopying machines and...
The toxic trade watchdog Basel Action Network (BAN) today denounced the long awaited attempt at policy reform for electronic waste export from the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) as a “greenwash” and a perpetuation of the same “...
The board of the nation's largest trade association for recyclers today laid out a roadmap addressing the growing problem of the improper export of end-of-life electronic scrap.
Forecast of e-waste surge in developing countries prompts call to rethink export ban
A newly created non-for-profit organisation focusing on electronic waste (E-Waste) has been established in Nuku’alofa. The organisation, known as the E-Waste Tonga is developing an e-waste collection and education program along with other...
With more than 2 Mt of WEEE collected and properly treated and reported, 2009 has been recorded as a successful year for the 39 producer responsibility organisations of the WEEE Forum. This figure is up by 30% on 2008 when approximately 1.5 Mt was...
The Bay Area is a hotbed of solar innovation and manufacturing. But will this industry become a source of local pollution?
For hardware vendors in the Nigerian IT market, especially at the Computer Village Ikeja, it may not be business as usual very soon as the National information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) has said that hazardous e-devices imported into...
The US is taking on some serious issues associated with e-waste. Many states have taken on the idea of preventing e-waste from entering landfill sites- a somewhat belated idea, leaving them lagging way behind the rest of the world. The Vermont House...
Rocketing sales of cell phones, gadgets, appliances in China, India, elsewhere forecast Proper e-waste collection, recycling key to recovering valuable materials, protecting health, building new green economy
