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
HP has updated its global corporate policy on banning exports of non-working electronics to developing countries with new requirements.
Medals for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver will contain gold, silver, and copper from recycled TVs, computers, and keyboards that might otherwise have ended up as e-waste.
Lagos — Lagos State government has started moves to contain the rising trends of indiscriminate disposal of electronic wastes especially at dumpsites and some known electronic markets in the state. To this effect, the government through the Lagos...
Like energy saving lamps, LCD displays –or ´flat screens´- contain mercury that can be released during collection and recycling. According to the European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA), the number of displays that become waste is still...
According to a report from the Congressional Research Service, electronic waste ends up being exported overseas because of high domestic processing costs, even though the impacts of overseas processing can be wanting.
Ghana’s e-waste problems, long misunderstood and ignored is now receiving serious and practical attention thanks to the work of both local and international journalists and researchers.
Twenty years since the adoption of the Basel Convention, a "catastrophic accumulation" of e-waste continues to fuel a global pile of hazardous waste.
There was an audible gasp when Kirsten McIntyre told the audience that e-waste is the third fastest growing waste stream in the world,
Frustrated by inaction in Congress, a growing number of states are trying to reduce the rising tide of junked TVs, computers and other electronics that have become one of the nation's fastest-growing waste streams.
Microsoft has teamed up with UN to curb electronic waste which poses serious risks to human health and the environment.
A waste management expert says Australia is lagging behind other countries on the issue of disposal of electronic waste.
As part of the Swiss e-Waste Programme, Empa's sustec group organized from the 6th to 12th of september 2009 an e-Waste Study Tour with 19 participants from their partner institutions in Peru, Colombia, Brasil, Chile, Argentina and South Africa.
Although right now the Middle East has no comprehensive legislation or rules governing e-waste management, the region is waking up to the challenge and has started doing its bit to manage e-waste more effectively.
In two or three years time there will be a “light bulb recycling tsunami” for energy-saving light bulbs as consumers start to recycle them, according to an industry expert.
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs will help Peru promote the environmentally sound management of waste electrical and electronic equipment.
India is close to finalising the world's strictest set of rules on disposing of electronic waste. The rules, framed by electronics equipment manufacturers with the help of NGOs, are now being given the final touch by the ministry of environment and...
The introduction of a national or European Union register to hold all organisations handling waste electrical and electronic equipment in the EU will help Member States to capture more WEEE tonnages, according to an industry expert.
Following on the news last week that electronics exported from the U.S. and other industrial countries may be reused more often than previously thought, I got a heads-up about a new project that helps to minimize the impact of those exported...
The Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom) and the Department of Environment (DoE) have set up more than 400 e-waste collection bins around the country.
La Plataforma RELAC IDRC/SUR presenta una iniciativa para apoyar la formación de jóvenes profesionales en el área de residuos electrónicos. Estos residuos serán en el futuro los desechos a los que se preste mayor...
