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    Solar power waste: a growing problem for India

    India’s solar power industry is set for huge growth as part of efforts to produce cleaner and more reliable energy, but fears are growing about the lack of safe and environmentally-sound options for recycling and recovering the associated waste solar panels.

    By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 10 June 2024

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    What a waste

    Safety Management asked Dharmesh Shah how India can improve its waste management, through the ‘reduce, reuse, recover and recycle’ waste management model.

    By Gajal Gupta on 01 February 2021

    Swati Singh Sambyal

    Waste not, want not

    Swati Singh Sambyal, a Delhi-based waste management expert, gives her views on how India can improve its management of hazardous industrial waste.

    By on 01 February 2021

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    Global cooperation crucial in fighting climate change, warns Modi

    The world must cooperate to tackle the huge challenges of climate change, terrorism and the pandemic, warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi after India officially assumed the year-long presidency of the influential G20 group of the world’s largest economies.

    By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 06 December 2022

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    E-waste: a toxic legacy

    Although India has laws aimed at ensuring the safe collection and recycling of electronic waste, the vast majority is processed by untrained and unprotected workers in the informal sector – with major implications for their health and the environment.

    By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 12 October 2022