Environment section of ASK-EHS blog hosts wide ranging topics from environment, sustainability, climate change, emissions and associated thread of ideas that straddle industries and organizations as well as our lives.
Personal computers were the flag bearer of the revolution then. And with over 1.03 billion mobile phone subscribers, mobile telephony is leading it now. “Digital and digitalization” have become the buzzword as newer technologies and the rise of social media brings our nation together. But have you ever wondered about the curious case of e-waste?
The consumptive attitude of modern city dwellers understands only convenience and is willing to pay a price. However, our monetary resources will fall woefully short as global warming progresses changing the very environment we knew as habitable – unleashing significantly warmer climates, depleted glaciers and an ecosystem thrown into chaos.
Managing hazardous materials is a challenging task for any manufacturing or a construction organization since controlling these products is highly regulated and involves greater liabilities throughout their lifecycle till they are part of the inventory of the facility. A greater care is required in storage, handling, use and disposition of these products.
However, we have to realise that each country or region may define their ambient air parameters differently. Same is the case with measurement intervals which help in generating the coloured scale range shown. Therefore, the scale values and range may correspond to different levels of common pollutants in other countries.
Consider this, nearly 200 countries from around the world were signatories at the COP 21 summit held in Paris’16-17. The specific aim is to achieve 2o Celsius drop in the overall temperatures across the world compared to pre-industrial levels.