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Rules on e-waste management by March next year

15th Dec 2009 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/rulese-waste-management-by-march-next-year/80894/on

The government today said draft rules on managing e-waste will be ready by March next year. "The government is currently in the process of developing a dedicated set of rules, which would govern the management and handling of electronic wast...

Reliance Power may earn Rs 4,000 cr from carbon credit sale

27th May 2009 - http://www.karmayog.org/redirect/strred.asp?docId=24103

MUMBAI: The Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Power is expected to earn more than Rs 4,000 crore over the next 10 years by selling carbon credits from its upcoming Sasan power project in Madhya Pradesh, according to peopl...

Recycling in Dharavi - Adding the fourth R

10th May 2010 - India Together

Huge mounds of plastic bags, papers and scrap soar into the skyline - you might call it the Dharavi skyline, quite unlike the one a few kilometers south. At first this appears to be nothing more than a jumbled mass. Slowly one begins to disce...

Report on inventorization of e-waste in two cities in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

27th Feb 2010 - http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/report-inventorization-e-waste-two-cities-andhra-pradesh-and-karnataka-hyderabad-and-bangalo

This report on inventorization of e-waste in Hyderabad and Bangalore reveals that e-waste generation from household sector alone is expected to touch 1,07,886 MT in 2013 in Hyderabad and 1,30,383 MT in 2013 in Bangalore. Says that e-wastes in these t...

Renewable energy can be stored as gas

07th May 2010 - http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/24852/Renewable-energy-can-be-stored-as-gas.aspx

The breakthrough in the USA is the discovery of a catalyst about one seventieth the cost of platinum that enables the efficient electrolysis of ordinary sea or river water to produce hydrogen without the need to acidify it or add some other electroly...

Radiation death exposes India’s waste disposal failures

11th May 2010 - http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/environment/2010/May/environment_May17.xml&section=environment

The death from radiation poisoning of a scrapyard worker in New Delhi has highlighted the lax enforcement of waste disposal laws in India, leading to calls for urgent action. In early April, a machine from Delhi University containing cobalt-60, a rad...

Rural India Journal: What MNCs Do Right and Wrong in Rural India

10th May 2010 - http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/05/07/rural-india-journal-what-mncs-do-right-and-wrong-in-rural-india/

India’s backward backwaters have been on the forefront of global corporate thinking recently. Everyone from Toyota Motors to General Electric and Metro has been sending spies into the subcontinent for the first time to investigate the values o...

Rajasthan to set up 20 small PV solar plants

24th Apr 2010 - The Economic Times

As part of center’s rooftop PV & small solar generation programme, the Rajasthan government is planning to set up 20 photovoltaic-based small solar plants of 1 mw each in the state. These projects are likely to attract an investment of Rs ...

Roanoke County firm fined $1,800 over hazardous waste issue

06th May 2010 - http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/245864

State environmental regulators have issued a $1,800 fine to ITT Night Vision in Roanoke County for improperly storing hazardous waste. About 10 gallons of isopropanol, a flammable solvent, were dumped into a tank at the Plantation Road facility in Oc...

Recycling center to hold Clean Sweep May 14, 15

06th May 2010 - http://www.htrnews.com/article/20100506/MAN0101/5060548/1984/MANnews

MANITOWOC — Residents, farms and businesses can dispose of hazardous materials safely during Manitowoc County's 2010 Hazardous Waste Clean Sweep on May 14 and 15, according to a news release from the Manitowoc County Recycling Center. Items su...