NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today released a report of their scientific analysis of waste-waters, ashes, soils and sediments from electronic waste (e-waste) recycling yards in India and China. The report conclusively proves that toxic chemicals...
Electronic products manufacturers are beginning to jostle for top space on the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics [1], an updated version of which was released today. Competitive pressure, ongoing dialogue with Greenpeace campaigners and...
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Greenpeace climbers today scaled the Benelux headquarters of the Korean electronic giant Samsung, sticking the message “Samsung = Broken Promises” in giant letters onto the front of the building. The peaceful protest is...
BENGALURU, India — Wipro climbs to the No.2 rank worldwide in the latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics.
BANGALORE, India — The demand by IT and consumer electronic brands for a comprehensive law embracing IPR (1) in India to tackle impending e-waste crisis is getting louder as brands have started openly pitching for this. Close on the heels of...
NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today released ‘Cutting Edge Contamination: A study of environmental pollution during the manufacture of electronic products’ (1). The report shows that some of the electronics industries’ biggest brands, and their...
NEW DELHI, India — At the beginning of the COP-8 (1) meeting of the Basel Convention in Nairobi, Greenpeace today released a scathing critique of India's draft WEEE (Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment) legislation (2). Being developed...
Greenpeace called on dirty electronics companies to clean up their act today, starting with toxic tech giant, Hewlett-Packard. At 08.00 this morning, 15 Greenpeace activists delivered a truckload of electronic waste to the company's European...
BANGALORE, India — Despite having a massive capacity to cut greenhouse gas emissions the IT industry is not yet delivering on its potential according to the first results of the Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge(1). The IT industry calculates that...
DELHI, India — After a gap of one year, Wipro regained its top position among Indian IT brands and also leaps into the top-five brand league in the latest edition of Greenpeace's 'Guide to Greener Electronics' ranking, released today. Wipro’s new...
BANGALORE, India — Out of the 22 electronics companies, only Sony-Ericsson and Sony score above 5/10 in the latest version of the Greenpeace Ranking Guide to Greener Electronics, while the overall score on global scale has plummeted as Greenpeace...
BANGALORE, India — Now in its tenth edition, the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics shows that most consumer electronics companies have been slow to get serious about climate change. Despite much green marketing, many brands including all...
Greenpeace activists return e-waste to Philips
India in 2007 generated 380,000 tonnes of e-waste from discarded Computers, Televisions and Mobile Phones
Greenpeace activists stage a protest at the Philips office in Mumbai asking the company to immediately implement free, voluntary e-waste takeback service in India
Greenpeace activists at HP Headquarters in Bangalore demand the company to lobby for e-waste legislation in India.
E-waste transported on a tricycle in Seelampur, Delhi.
Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information Technology with a giant art installation of the planet in the clutches of electronic waste. Greenpeace also presented the Ministry with a report on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility in a...
Greenpeace art installation depicting the e-waste crisis at ELCOMP, the electrononics trade fair at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
When we started our campaign to tackle the global e-waste crisis in 2005 we went to India to document the terrible environmental and health effects of toxic e-waste being dumped across Asia and Africa . Just 6 years later we have...
Map of Asia showing where e-waste is imported and recycling sites in China and India.
Young workers at an e-waste recycling yard in Delhi.
E-waste at the manufacturers gates!
Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi, demand a ban on the import of electronic waste. The organization presented evidence of the illegal import of e-waste into the country in the guise of computers for reuse and charity.
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