Tag Archives : e-waste

Over 130 countries have agreed to the Nusa Dua Declaration on the environment, a proclamation that covers the major issues of green economies, biodiversity, and international environmental management. The monumental mandate of the declaration is to underscore the importance of preserving biodiversity and the need to adopt a low-carbon green economy [...]

A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), entitled Recycling – From E-waste to Resources, discloses the amount of e-waste being generated in 11 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The data on current estimates are also used to project future e-waste e-waste is just a euphemism for waste materials coming from products of [...]

China has become the world’s largest producer of household garbage. The country has produced a lot of junk in packaging, old electronics, newspaper, bottles, etc. ‘Beijing officials warned in June that all of the city’s landfills would run out of space within five years.’ Japan has little spaces for practically everything. For its trash, [...]

The alarming pollution levels in China have now become a global concern. Fueled by the spoils of its fast emerging economy, the people of China have become voracious consumers, an effect of what some call as the country’s ‘money-induced euphoria.’ This consumerism has brought about a need for raw materials. Upwards of 75 percent of all its forests [...]

Industrial waste treatment services emerged in Europe as early as the beginning of the 1970s. These, however, are relatively new in China, especially, the hazardous waste treatment services. Rules and regulations in the country concerning hazardous waste treatment facilities are far from satisfactory. Since hazardous waste treatment poses high risk, [...]

This field of science wants to eliminate batteries. Already, it sounds good for the environment, actually. It is said that a cell phone battery, for instance, is hazardous to the health if one makes a call because the caller is too close to the dying out battery, and will intercept all that negative radioactive energy. That is why the elimination of [...]