An "E-waste Initiative" has been launched in Mumbai to deal with growing threat no one can ignore. The United Nations estimates that we generate millions of tons of e-waste, or electronic waste, every ...

This article is authored by Masood Mallick, managing director & CEO, Re-Sustainability.

The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of the rest ends up in landfill, or ...

Mumbai: In a major push to modernise the city’s sanitation system, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to induct 988 advanced waste collection vehicles, aiming to overhaul how garbage ...

Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 11,060 prohibited walkie-talkie sets of Rs 2.5 crore, and second-hand hard disk drives (HDDs) worth Rs 6.75 crore, collectively valued ...

The alleys of Mustafabad are dotted with hole-in-the-wall workshops that are crammed full of discarded PCs and tech gear from another era. Bits and pieces of electronic waste are piled high, ...

Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the ...

Landfills first revealed themselves to artist Navjot Altaf not in a city, but in a forest. She and activist friends from the Koyla Satyagraha travelled through Bastar several years ago when they ...

As technology use increases across India, one policy move in the national capital reflects a wider shift in how governments ...