Recycling of e-waste in India and its potential
Since India is highly deficient in precious mineral resources while untreated e-waste goes to landfill, there is need for a well designed, …
E-waste: How should India defuse a ticking time bomb?
Safe disposal practices, consumer awareness and cooperation between organised and unorganised sectors is needed to solve the issue
Report on e-waste management places 5 companies in the red
Toxic Link assesses companies on extended producer responsibility over handling and recycling e-waste
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 22, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
Centre amends e-waste management rules 2016 yet again
Even the producers or importers, who have recently started their operations, have been given a collection target which is lesser than the targets …
COVID-19: How bio-medical waste poses challenges to urban solid waste management system
With the potential onset of the third wave, it is important to prioritise a separate collection of infectious and highly infectious waste in …
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 8-15)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 13, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 16, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 23, 2020)
COVID-19: Revised guidelines show how biomedical waste must be handled
Extra precautions to be taken by sanitation workers, healthcare facilities and COVID-19 isolation wards are also described
Study identifies 15 e-waste processing hotspots in Delhi operating without safeguards
That they can operate with such impunity highlights the failure of the system, it says
Biomedical waste in Delhi: What monitoring without figures, asks report
Liquid hospital waste discharged in sewers, many operating without DPCC authorisation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 11, 2024)