Updates in this dossier

Three reasons why a ban on e-waste exports is … right

An editorial by Prof. Eric Williams of Arizona State University in Discovery News entitled ‘Three Reasons Why a Ban on e-Waste Exports is Wrong’, dated 10 August 2010, is responded to in kind on 13…

NGO comments on Indian e-waste legislation

The full concerns as brought forward by Toxics Link in August 2010. A summary: Objectives: The Objective of the Draft states that is to enable “recovery and reuse”, thereby relegating the objective to “safeguard environment…

SOMO conference on e-waste in Brussels

29 April 2010, SOMO organised a conference on the renewal of the European directive on electronic waste (e-waste). In June 2009 the European Parliament will vote on amendments to this renewal. E-waste is a growing…

Delhi change maker eliminates e-waste

Do you know that India alone generates more than 4 lakh tones of electronic waste, which is highly toxic in nature and requires appropriate technology and process for its sound management?, writes Toxics Link. If…

Indonesia turns back illegal shipment of e-waste from USA “recycler

Seattle, Washington (1 March 2010).  The Basel Action Network (BAN), an environmental watchdog organization, reported today that it had successfully prevented nine sea-going containers of hazardous electronic waste from a Massachusetts business calling themselves a…