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Panel begins framing e-waste disposal rules

27th Jan 2010 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/panel-begins-framing-e-waste-disposal-rules/383803/

With electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) emerging as the new by-products of fast economic growth, the Union environment ministry is framing rules that pin the responsibility for disposal on the producer. Eleven recycling units are expected to c...

Poisoning the poor – Electronic Waste in Ghana

05th Aug 2008 - http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/poisoning-the-poor-electroni/

The ever-growing demand for the latest fashionable mobile phone, flat screen TV or super-fast computer creates ever larger amounts of obsolete electronics that are often laden with toxic chemicals like lead, mercury and brominated flame retardants. R...

Plastics Industry Representative Says State Positioned for Growth

06th May 2010 - http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=79380

U.S. plastics manufacturers are positioned for growth, and West Virginia is among the states that are most aggressively recruiting the industry, according to William R. Carteaux, president and chief executive officer of the Society of the Plastics In...

Proper disposal key to waste management

13th Apr 2010 - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/proper-disposal-key-to-waste-management/605492/

Unlike other Indian states and countries, over 7,000 tones of Delhi’s waste is either recycled or send to landfill sites. Incineration of waste, a method adopted by most countries, is usually not possible in Delhi due to the state’s uniqu...

Punjab to set up solar power plants

04th Apr 2010 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/punjab-to-setsolar-power-plants/390702/

The Punjab government, in collaboration with US-based SunPower Corporation and Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS), has decided to set up solar power plants in the state. The plants are expected to generate 1,000 Mw over the next two years. Chief Min...

Pollution main cause of fog on North India

07th Feb 2010 - Planet earth

Every winter, the thick fog that blankets northern India and throws in to a Estate of disarry, is due to the western disturbances and pollutions from multiple sources. Study by a team of scientists at the western disturbances and pollutants from mult...