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The Impact of Privatization of Solid Waste Collection and Transportation in Delhi: The Impact on the informal Recycling Sector
he Impact of Privatization of Solid Waste Collection and Transportation in Delhi: The Impact on the informal Recycling Sector
Background
Since the late 1990s, two important public interest litigations have been filed in the Supreme Court, the highest court in India. Both demand greater accountability from the municipality for cleaner cities. The first, B.L. Vadhera Vs [...]
Waste Management in Jordan: Any Lessons for Moving Ahead?
When countries adopted the Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste in 1989, Jordan ratified this Convention and was a party to it. Consequently, this country has an obligation to enact relevant municipal legislation which conforms to the ideals of Basel, as required by this treaty. Amongst the requirements of Basel are that member [...]
What You Should Do With E-Waste?
No one could have predicted the explosion of electronics that has occurred in the last two decades. Nearly everything we do and have contact with, involves the use of electronics. Even simple wristwatches have become mini computers.
According to the Consumer Electronics Association “Americans own approximately 24 electronic products per household” in the [...]
Why Do We Recycle Our Waste
Plastics production also involves the use of potentially harmful chemicals, which are added as stabilisers or colorants. Many of these have not undergone environmental risk assessment and their impact on human health and the environment is currently uncertain. Plastics have a low entropy of mixing, which is due to the high molecular weight of their [...]
Are you Becoming E-wasted?
The recent accelerating changes in electronics technology, combined with lower initial costs of ownership and planned obsolescence, have caused a high rate of turnover for all types of electronic products. The replaced electronic products and systems that were made obsolete by new technologies are creating a fast-growing problem of ever increasing amounts of obsolete [...]