KOCHI: Following the footsteps of major cities in the country, Kochi too is marching ahead in its quest to curb the e-waste menace. The Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI), the participating agency for the integrated environment awareness programme organised by the Kochi Corporation, has come up with an e-waste management project.

State's annual e-waste likely to touch 35,000 tonnes in 2 years
Chennai ranks fourth among the top 10 e-waste generators in the country
Huge amount of imported e waste in Chennai
CHENNAI: For the past three years, the month of June has been the only time when Jai Krishna and his 13 friends, all employees of TCS, travel by public transport to office as part of their extended support to Environme

The government

Putting the onus of re-cycling of electronic wastes (e-waste) on the producers, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has for the first time notified e-waste management rules.

The e-waste (management and handling) Rules, 2011 would recognise the producers

NEW DELHI: Starting May 2012, all old computers and electronic equipment will have to be disposed off to authorized collection centres that would deal with electronic waste (e-waste).

Though the government had put up the e-waste (management and handling) rules in 2010, they have been notified recently.

KOCHI: It seems the second phase development of the Brahmapuram Solid Waste Treatment Plant will meet with the same fate as that of the first phase. Thanks to the apathy of the Corporation, the project is still on papers

KARACHI, Feb 27: A research has found extremely high level of contamination with toxic metals especially that of mercury in the roadside soil along the National Highway.

The alarming level of toxicants, particularly the high level of mercury at all selected sampling sites, poses grave threat to public health and requires serious immediate remedial efforts, according to the research.

Karachi