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Electronic Waste

  • Can India mine its increasing e-waste for rare earth minerals?

    Can India mine its increasing e-waste for rare earth minerals?

    Bhasker Tripathi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
    · Nov 03, 2025 · 07:30 pm
  • Can India clean up its e-waste recycling sector?

    Can India clean up its e-waste recycling sector?

    Yashraj Sharma, Rest of World
    · Sep 27, 2025 · 06:30 am
  • Colombia’s rapid switch to EVs is creating battery waste

    Colombia’s rapid switch to EVs is creating battery waste

    Juliana Bedoya, Rest of World
    · Mar 23, 2025 · 10:00 pm
  • India has failed to recognise that its e-waste disposers may be poor but their knowledge is rich

    India has failed to recognise that its e-waste disposers may be poor but their knowledge is rich

    TS Krishnan
    · Mar 18, 2021 · 09:00 am
  • In India, e-waste recycling comes at a heavy cost to workers’ health and environment

    In India, e-waste recycling comes at a heavy cost to workers’ health and environment

    Miles Park, The Conversation
    · Feb 19, 2019 · 01:30 pm
  • National Green Tribunal asks environment ministry to submit plan on managing electronic waste

    National Green Tribunal asks environment ministry to submit plan on managing electronic waste

    Scroll Staff
    · Aug 22, 2018 · 06:39 pm
  • How a Togolese inventor built a 3D printer using recycled electronic waste

    How a Togolese inventor built a 3D printer using recycled electronic waste

    Raluca Besliu
    · Jan 21, 2018 · 11:30 pm
  • India produced 2 million tonnes of e-waste in 2016, finds UN-backed study

    India produced 2 million tonnes of e-waste in 2016, finds UN-backed study

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 15, 2017 · 11:39 am