Bangalore generated over 37,000 metric tonne (MT) of electronic waste in 2012 and stands third in the country after Mumbai and Navi Mumbai generating 61,500 MT followed by NCR (National Capital Re

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority is planning to revive its three-year-old project for setting up an electronic-waste (e-waste) disposal facility.

The threat of electronic waste (e-waste) destroying the ecological health is looming large over India.

The organised sector handles only 10 per cent of e-waste. The rest is handled by the unorganised sector that employs unscientific methods.

Bangalore surely basked in the global glory of its “IT hub” tag for years. Thanks to the huge IT revenues it generated and the big ticket firms that dug deep roots here, Bangalore deserved that. But now, it is wake up time. No, not from its unrelenting garbage piles or its mounting civic problems, but this time from the rising threat of its electronic waste. Rising because, the city’s e-waste volumes are going beyond 18,000 metric tonnes per annum, an astounding piece of statistic brought home by a recent Assocham survey.

Though more than a year has passed since the E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules came into effect in May 2012, their implementation is still in a nascent stage, at least in Varanasi, one of the

Tonnes of e-waste from Bangalore and across India are shipped to Singapore, Belgium and Japan.

Bangalore: The IT City tag has come with a heavy price tag, thanks to negligence in electronic waste disposal and recycling by public and private sectors.

A recent international study by scientists of Ehime University, Japan in association with local experts, revealed that there are many informal backyards and scrap units here where ewaste is not recycled as per norms and this poses serious health risks to people working there and those around them.

The draft Municipal Waste Rules just placed in the public domain for feedback, have identified a specific criteria for site selection ~that the landfill site has to be large enough to last for at l

India is among the countries generating lowest quantity of e-waste from personal computers, the Rajya Sabha was informed.