Wheels of pollution

No one is tracking the substantial amount of lead that escapes into the environment from car tyres

Green technique can convert plaster of Paris waste into useful products

Scientists from Pune and Mumbai use hazardous medical waste to make ammonium sulphate and calcium bicarbonate

What about recycling for solar PV?

With a target of 100 GW, India has made no plans for disposal of e-waste that the solar sector will generate

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

Forest to farms

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

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

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 …

Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …

Mango resistance

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s mango belt are clear they will not allow Lucknow’s solid waste facility on their dashehari land

Freedom from single-use plastics: A dream or an achievable target?

After Modi in his August 15 address appealed to make India free from single-use plastics, the country now needs a robust roadmap to weed it out

Africa's waste challenge

For Africa, solid waste management is becoming a major concern. The writer reports from Zanzibar and Swaziland on how two contrasting scenarios …

E-toxic trail

Moradabad's e-waste dismantling and recycling industry has severely polluted the Ramganga river, finds a new CSE study

Supreme Court seeks status report on hazardous waste directives

The directives were issued by a monitoring committee appointed by the court on October 14, 2003

New Battery Waste Management Rules make producers accountable for recycling

But they need to be more holistic in design to enable sustainability standards 

Swachh Survekshan 2017 encouraging unsustainable approaches for waste management: CSE

Says the survey should give preference to waste segregation and recycle and reuse over centralised approaches like landfill and waste-to-energy plants

E-waste is not waste, but treasure

There is 100 times more gold in a tonne of smart phones than in a tonne of gold ore itself! But the precious metal is virtually thrown away …

International E-Waste Day: Why India needs to step up its act on recycling

India generated 3.2 million tonnes of E-waste in 2019; details of 90 per cent of this waste are undocumented

India’s challenges in waste management

The key to efficient waste management is to ensure segregation source and resource recovery

A burning question

Waste-to-energy plants are being touted as a wonder solution for garbage management. But how feasible is this option?

Light on mercury

Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and …

Inaction in waste management leading to huge economic loss

Huge investment needed to clean billions of tonnes of waste that has been dumped across the world