Category: Recycling

“The E-waste (management and handling) Rules, which will come into effect in 2012, will be incorporating all dealers and producers with the liability for recycling and reducing e-waste,”

Africa e-waste has decided to join an initiative that is being driven by the IWMSA (Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa)

Electronic waste has heavily polluted around ten percent of all the farmland in China, and now seems to be rising in alarming proportions in parts of both Africa and India.

Mumbai has moved one step nearer to getting its very first public electronic waste processing plant.

Researchers have discovered that heavy metals from electronic waste that are toxic to humans have spread into the markets,

Certain companies are so successful that when they launch a new product, or even a new version of an old product, it can become a media event.

A collection system for electronic waste in Penang is being worked on by experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Mexico has finally woken up to the fact that it both needs to and can do a lot more to collect and recycle electronic waste including old cell phones and freezers, given that the majority of such items have tended to end up on dumps even after years of collection efforts.

A government test that is used to determine the amount of radiation that people absorb via their new or old cell phones is flawed, according to a number of researchers and doctors.

An alarming new study suggests that as many as every one in six of all old cell phones are contaminated with traces of fecal matter.