E-waste recycling hub: Moradabad

Rudimentary and risky ways of recycling cut costs, offer the formal sector tough competition  

Tricks of the e-waste trade

New rules offer no help to informal operators. They ignore reality and are likely to be toothless  

IT's underbelly

India produces about 400,000 tonnes of electronic waste each year, growing exponentially. Handling this is a great challenge. What adds to it is …

Single window dumpyard

India wants global waste. So it gets what it wants  

No one's controlling mercury

A different waste model

Interview: Ravi Aggarwal on different aspects of chemical regulation

Change is in the process

Cobalt-60 is in Delhi

Authorities unsure how to check entry of radioactive material in scrap

Hazardous delay

Environment ministry submits unclear status report on hazardous waste directives

Grave yards

Ship-breaking industry, once banned in Bangladesh for violating environment and safety norms, is back in business

Dangerous business

Rules of e-dump

Loopholes in new rules for electronic waste make it difficult to regulate informal sector

Ban toxic imports: court

Supreme Court wants hazardous waste rules aligned with Basel Convention

Too hot to handle

India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?

Light on mercury

Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light

COVID-19: Revised guidelines show how biomedical waste must be handled

Extra precautions to be taken by sanitation workers, healthcare facilities and COVID-19 isolation wards are also described

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