Swachh Survekshan 2018 to incorporate sustainable waste management practices
Last year's survey encouraged unviable practices giving preference to centralised waste management
Ten zero-waste cities: How Seoul came to be among the best in recycling
Strong policy instruments and good implementation did the trick for South Korea's capital
How one social enterprise is working to make Ladakh waste-free
Ladakh has progressed a lot in recent years in developing a sound waste recovery mechanism, but there is still a lot more to be done to make …
Delhi plans to remediate Okhla landfill by end of 2023. How will it do this?
CSE team found fresh waste continues to be disposed of at site; critical to use waste fractions recovered from landfill safely
Can an inventory help manage e-waste?
Better data on e-waste will help track the amount of e-waste generated, reduce e-waste, promote recycling and prevent illegal dumping and …
States commit to waste segregation at source, but decentralisation not yet a priority
Decentralised solutions will cut transportation costs and make households and institutions part of the solution
COVID-19: How bio-medical waste poses challenges to urban solid waste management system
With the potential onset of the third wave, it is important to prioritise a separate collection of infectious and highly infectious waste in …
Book review: Garbage Wars: The Struggle For Environmental Justice By David Naguib Pellow
Sociologist David Naguib Pellow has come out with an engrossing account of Chicago from the perspective of what surrounds us all: garbage. It is …
Ailing hospitals
A survey of hospitals in Delhi reveals the poor state of waste management
Maharashtra acts
Polybags out, system suspect
Towards circular economy: What to do with legacy waste in India
Bioremediation to treat legacy waste and reclaim old dumpsites may not always work; the composition of the waste also matters
Recycling the bin
Several initiatives are demonstrating how the informal e-waste recycling sector can be formalised
Taste for waste
Entrepreneurs now see business opportunity in waste paper. The raddiwala employed with start-ups can be summoned to home with the click of a …
Good riddance
Integral role of women in waste management
Having gender inclusion into waste management policymaking can lead to more comprehensive and inclusive solutions
Waste management
Manufacturers to recycle
Slow and unsteady
Just re-use it
Sri Lanka finds a way to re-use furniture waste
Municipal bye-laws are underutilised legal instrument for instituting sustainable solid waste management in cities
Municipal bye-laws’ agenda requires a lot more attention to ensure its use is universal across all ULBs
Zero Waste Cities Challenge: Guwahati has 2 winners for work on waste models
Only a fraction of waste generated in Guwahati is recycled; the remaining ends up at dumpsites or is littered around
E-waste to increase 38% by 2030: Report
Most electronic waste around the world still not being collected and recycled properly: United Nations University
Junk masters
Start-ups tap into novel techniques to not just collect garbage and process it in an environment-friendly manner, but also convert it into …
Better manage e-waste, improve working conditions for recyclers: ILO
The UN agency has called for urgent steps to promote investments in the sector to create “decent” working conditions
Trash-fired power plants wasted in India
Controversy mars India's ambitious target of generating 800 MW of energy by burning waste. Ironically, the country does not even generate …