Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 16, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Study identifies 15 e-waste processing hotspots in Delhi operating without safeguards

That they can operate with such impunity highlights the failure of the system, it says

Recycling of e-waste in India and its potential

Since India is highly deficient in precious mineral resources while untreated e-waste goes to landfill, there is need for a well designed, …

E-waste: How should India defuse a ticking time bomb?

Safe disposal practices, consumer awareness and cooperation between organised and unorganised sectors is needed to solve the issue

Recycling the bin

Several initiatives are demonstrating how the informal e-waste recycling sector can be formalised

Enforcing e-waste rules a challenge

Loopholes in the rules make it difficult to regulate informal sector dealing in e-waste and bulk consumers of electronic goods