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>
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Nine dangerous chemicals used in farming and industry will be added to a list of banned substances whose presence in the environment causes serious health risks, more than 160 government agreed on Saturday. The nine pesticides and industrial chemicals join 12 substances targeted for elimination under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
Sreeram Chaulia
As General Motors Corp prepares to sell its best assets to a streamlined new entity, the worst of what it owns will be auctioned off in bankruptcy court, including contaminated factory sites, parking lots in Flint, Michigan, and a nine-hole golf course in New Jersey.
The government is fully committed to replace the mercury based technology into environment friendly technology to avert its harmful impact, Minister for Environment, Hamidullah Jan Afridi said on Thursday.
Most of the popular brands of paints contain high quantities of lead, a toxin especially dangerous for children, says a latest study done by Centre for Science and Environment. While there is no mandatory standard for lead levels in paints in the country, top companies exceed even the voluntary limit specified by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
We found staggeringly high levels of lead in virtually all samples we checked When paint companies were asked about their plans to phase out lead, three responded by doing so in months.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of World Bank, has pledged assistance to Waste Management Corporation (WMC) to eliminate waste collected across the country.
Navi Pillay The millions of people who risk their lives in order to cross international borders in search of a better life present one of the most serious human rights problems today.
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) giving it a clean chit, but Union environment ministry rejecting it to send its own team to the state for investigation.