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Pune Inc: From mobile phones to metal bars, how Electrofine is tackling India’s e-waste crisis
August 26, 2025 4:50 pm
Pune-based Electrofine Recycling ensures that discarded electronics get decent ‘last rites’ that do not involve harming the environment.
IISER Pune team develops hybrid aerogel to extract gold from e-waste
December 20, 2024 1:42 pm
IISER Pune researchers said the economic return in the process was a tangible and sustainable means to turn waste to wealth.
As IT sector thrives, Pune grapples with e-waste pile-up: rules remain on paper as 90% of recycling done through informal channels
December 04, 2024 3:22 pm
Though the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has partnered with various NGOs to address the challenge of e-waste management, the lack of infrastructure and human resources has been a hindrance.
29 cases of illegal import of e-waste detected since 2019: Centre tells Parliament
March 29, 2022 3:27 pm
The government placed the data in response to a question raised by Congress MP TN Prathapan.
This lockdown, go on a treasure hunt inside your homes
April 12, 2020 4:19 pm
Locked inside the old phones, laptops, printers, kitchen goods, televisions and other devices we have lying around are valuable metals and minerals. These are the same essential natural resources that our modern world is dependent upon.
Big tech firms had e-waste centres but only on paper, many addresses fake: Delhi probe
September 11, 2019 2:10 pm
The Indian Express has learnt that when the DPCC inspected 43 out of a list of 80 centres sent to them by the CPCB, at least 20 e-waste collection centres of multinational giants, including Samsung, HP, Canon and Vivo, were found either untraceable or non-existent.
E-waste import ban will help, but that’s not India’s recycling problem
July 03, 2019 5:04 pm
As per the new E-Waste (Management) Rules 2016, it has become mandatory for bulk consumers, producers and manufacturers of all electrical and electronic equipment to abide by their EPR.
The afterlife of e-goods
December 26, 2018 12:05 am
A rapidly growing e-waste crisis needs rapid official decision-making, time-bound responses.
Tackling e-waste the ‘microbial’ way
December 07, 2017 4:51 am
Scientists extract up to 92 per cent metals from disposed mobile chargers
'If you can't collect CFL bulbs, don't sell so many,' tells Delhi High Court
September 24, 2017 1:55 pm
The court's observation came while hearing Philips' plea challenging the target fixed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for collection of e-waste, like compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), by it in 2017-18.
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