New Delhi, June 18, 2012: Rules on electronic waste management were notified in May this year, but several electronics and electric equipment manufacturers in Delhi have not set up e-waste collection centres yet, say environmentalists.

New Delhi, April 25 2012: According to the latest MoEF annual report, by the end of 2012, India would have generated a whopping eight lakh tonnes of e-waste; the dubious distinction has its serious side effects.

In a small room in the bylanes of Silampur in East Delhi, Aslam is busy breaking open computers. He's been doing this work for years at this recycling hub and knows exactly which parts are valuable and need to be separated.

Industrial policies since independence fostered the growth of industries in India. The rapid industrialisation has been key to the economic growth. But one of the downsides of industrialization has been the generation of large quantity of hazardous wastes.

Toxics Link, in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Health Systems Development Project (UPHSDP), organised a five-day training workshop, from November 29 to December 3, for four hospitals in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh (UP). The training was organised to ensure good waste management practices within the four healthcare facilities and to establish them as model facilities in terms of waste management.

Toxics Link has been planning to employ different training methods for the medical waste training programme for a long time. Initially, the importance of the subject was not well acknowledged by hospitals, which didn't like spending much time on training. But now, increasingly, people are realising the depth of the subject as well as the time one needs to understand it. Thus, they are now open to spending more time training their staff on these issues.