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Vehicle scrapping facilities: How they could emerge as a critical component of India’s automotive industryThe government has so far approved 72 such registered vehicle scrapping facilities, or RVSFs, across 16 states and Union Territories. Of th...
Circular economy: From ship to chip, a $500 billion opportunity awaits IndiaFor a country where reusing and sharing of products isn’t new, India has been unable to streamline or organise the unstructured secondhand ...
India's auto industry needs a sustainable scrappage policyExisting scrap yard hubs will not be able to handle the sheer volume of discarded cars in the coming years.
Labourer's son, porter's daughter from slums bag seats in DUDevinder is the first to go to college from his family and is taking all the precautions not to fall sick this monsoon.
Gone in 80 minutes: How old cars are dismantledAll mechanical parts of the vehicle, including the engine, are loaded and carted away . The CNG tank is taken out.
India to produce 30 lakh metric tonnes of e-waste by 2018: StudyThe study said that electronic waste discarded by Indians will touch 30 lakh metric tonnes (MT) a year by 2018.
- 4 years after leak, Delhi's Mayapuri scrap yard has no radiation detectors
Four years after the radiation leak of cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap yard, there is no way yet to detect radiation in the waste market.
National green tribunal bans burning of plastic, tyres in Delhi's scrap marketTo prevent serious injury from being caused to environment and humans, national green tribunal on Wednesday banned burning of plastics, tyr...
- West Delhi: Mayapuri's 'Junk Market' has an annual turnover of around Rs 6,000 crore
The ‘Junk Market’ where around 3,500 units are operational has an annual turnover of around Rs 6,000 crore.
- Delhi government to procure radiation detection equipment
Delhi Govt will soon procure sophisticated equipment to scan vulnerable areas.
- Delhi University is country's only radioactive polluter: AERB
Delhi University has earned the dubious distinction of being the country's only violator of radioactive waste disposal norms, according to ...
- AERB team starts investigation into lapses by DU
A team from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Saturday launched investigation into the lapses by Delhi University in auctioning ...
- Govt calls for strengthening hazardous waste management rules
The government has called for strengthening hazardous waste management rules especially at the port level to ensure that such material was ...
- Radioactive metal came from DU
If the presence of radioactive cobalt 60 at the Mayapuri scrap market wasn’t shocking enough, the police on Wednesday dropped a bigger bomb...
- Radioactive material seems to be pouring in W Delhi area
Radioactive material appears to be pouring in a scrap market in west Delhi's industrial area with police on Wednesday saying experts detect...
- New radiation source in Mayapuri; another victim hospitalised
Close on the heels of radiation exposure at a scrap market in Mayapuri, experts on Tuesday detected one more source of radiation in the sam...
- Lurking radioactive waste exposes defenceless Delhi
The exposure to the radioactive Cobalt-60 in scrap at Mayapuri in west Delhi that has left a scrap dealer, four of his labourers and anothe...
- Cobalt-60 source of radiation in west Delhi
Experts today identified the material which led to a "very powerful" radiation in a west Delhi industrial area as Cobalt-60, the exposure t...
- Radiation leak sparks scare in Delhi, BARC experts probe
The team, which first collected and isolated the mysterious shining object from the scrap shop in Mayapuri Industrial area in a sophisticat...
- Delhi to be global e-waste capital soon
As many as 900 pcs and 3,500 TV sets are dismantled in the city every day for reuse of their component parts.