Wetland crisis

Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta

Plastic shakeout

Centre proposes a ban on non-recyclable plastic. How prepared is India to implement it?

No concrete plans

The Centre for Science and Environment's Green Rating Project team has rated the cement industry. Its findings uncovered some surprises. The …

Brinksman

As Le Clemenceau bobs on the horizon, reactions in India get sharper, noisier. We've discovered occupational safety. Asbestos is used in …

Stockholm+50: How do we prepare for the next half century

When we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm conference, we need to discuss consumption and production in a globalised world

Ailing systems

Hospital waste management suffers from poor understanding and even poorer implementation

Getting the tan right

Removing chromium from effluent of leather units

E-waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

‘Handling toxic waste is a matter of science, not administration’

Whether it is the dismantling of toxics laden ship from the US, Oriental Nicety, or the clean up of the 350 tonnes of waste lying at the defunct …

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

From cradle to grave

GRP followed a life cycle analysis and set up parameters in accordance

Tangible shift

Bioprocessing - the Indian leather industry braces itself for an environmental facelift

Rules of e-dump

Loopholes in new rules for electronic waste make it difficult to regulate informal sector

Producer's onus paramount

One of the pioneers of the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) theory, Thomas Lindhqvist believes that plastic waste management will become …

COVID-19: India’s circular economy faces a rough ride

Only municipalities have been collecting waste but at different frequencies; there is no secondary segregation and resource recovery

Bengaluru's burning issue

The city finally wakes up to waste management, but bumbles into incineration plants

Partial ban

New rules ban metalised plastic only in tobacco sachets

Waste welfare

MONEYMAKERS

Making CETPs work

The pollution commons

CETPs: in fashion

Why waste a chance?

Wasted wealth

Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …