News from the Swiss e-waste Guide

We all know there's gold in them thar hills - but what about the ruthenium in them thar garbage dumps?

As we have reported, the world is facing looming shortages of ruthenium, and other metals few people have ever heard of - indium, tellurium, selenium, gallium, neodymium and more.

As the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean, Costa Rica through its Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications approved a comprehensive producer responsibility regulation for electronic products.

The Basel Action Network, an American watchdog group that has sought to curb the export of toxic electronic waste from the United States, plans to begin a new certification and auditing program on Thursday for both recyclers and companies that generate electronic refuse.

The Basel Action Network, an American watchdog group that has sought to curb the export of toxic electronic waste from the United States, plans to begin a new certification and auditing program on Thursday for both recyclers and companies that generate electronic refuse.

A ship laden with toxic products, otherwise known as e-wastes, is due to arrive in Lagos port tomorrow, a Dutch agency, VROM-Inspectorate and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) have alerted the Federal Government.

A ship laden with toxic products, otherwise known as e-wastes, is due to arrive in Lagos port tomorrow, a Dutch agency, VROM-Inspectorate and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) have alerted the Federal Government.

NEW DELHI: The plastic scrap market in Mundka which caught fire early morning on Sunday was a big dumping ground for electronic waste items. Several tonnes of hazardous e-waste — discarded television sets, computers, photocopying machines and inverter batteries — were burnt in the fire, posing a serious health concern for people living in the vicinity.

NEW DELHI: The plastic scrap market in Mundka which caught fire early morning on Sunday was a big dumping ground for electronic waste items. Several tonnes of hazardous e-waste — discarded television sets, computers, photocopying machines and inverter batteries — were burnt in the fire, posing a serious health concern for people living in the vicinity.

The toxic trade watchdog Basel Action Network (BAN) today denounced the long awaited attempt at policy reform for electronic waste export from the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) as a “greenwash” and a perpetuation of the same “export your harm” approach to managing the growing mountains of toxic elect

The board of the nation's largest trade association for recyclers today laid out a roadmap addressing the growing problem of the improper export of end-of-life electronic scrap.

Forecast of e-waste surge in developing countries prompts call to rethink export ban

A newly created non-for-profit organisation focusing on electronic waste (E-Waste) has been established in Nuku’alofa. The organisation, known as the E-Waste Tonga is developing an e-waste collection and education program along with other initiatives within Tonga.

With more than 2 Mt of WEEE collected and properly treated and reported, 2009 has been recorded as a successful year for the 39 producer responsibility organisations of the WEEE Forum. This figure is up by 30% on 2008 when approximately 1.5 Mt was collected and properly treated.

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For hardware vendors in the Nigerian IT market, especially at the Computer Village Ikeja, it may not be business as usual very soon as the National information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) has said that hazardous e-devices imported into the country would soon be banned, adding that guidelines on the provision of IT services in the country is underway.

The US is taking on some serious issues associated with e-waste. Many states have taken on the idea of preventing e-waste from entering landfill sites- a somewhat belated idea, leaving them lagging way behind the rest of the world. The Vermont House of Representatives passed S.77, An Act Relating to the Disposal of Electronic Waste.