Carry the burden

Of your waste, the government needs to tell the plastic industry. Other countries have done so. At times, to developing nations' detriment. …

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Garbage: Your Problem

Several non-gonernmental organisations are showing the way to handle this problem

USA's e-waste reincarnates as Chinese gold

Pune is clean

Trash to cash

Paper mill recycles cartons, makes tissue paper, furniture

Draft Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021: Addressing the bigger problem

The draft proposes increasing thickness of carry bags made of virgin plastic to 120 microns from 50 microns; ban single-use plastic from 2022  

Landfills scrapped in UK

Come 2004, 90 per cent of landfills will be shut down in the UK. The step is being taken in the wake of a recent EU directive that has clamped …

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone

Talks on toxins

Nuclear contamination

Thar desert faces threat

Kumbh brought Allahabad to verge of an epidemic, says NGT

The tribunal has asked UP chief secretary to immediately act on the mismanaged solid waste from the pilgrimage

New technique developed to make biodiesel cleaner

Scientists have developed a cost-effective strategy to convert crude glycerol, a by-product of manufacturing biodiesel, into a green fuel

Here are 3 of 21,000 industrial pollution cases pending in Indian courts

Industrial pollution cases in Indian courts often span over decades and, as a result, the country had over 21,000 pending court cases on …

CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Poor progress at INC-4 as it fails to address the elephant in the room

Many provisions of substantive elements do not make it to textual negotiations; like-minded groups dominate Closing Plenary

Run-up to Ottawa: New study shows how global plastic waste trade evolved recently & ways for responsible management

A most significant shift in global plastic waste trade landscape has been the decline in exports to China & Hong Kong

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 11, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Waste in news on May 3

A round-up of what's new in waste and sanitation 

Cruising standards

Sludge-scrapers

Cement from sewage

Washing away profits

Sewage burgers

Our environment, our decision