What is the global treaty on plastic pollution?
This treaty will serve as a framework for an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a legally binding agreement mandating countries …
Rare earth metals are used extensively in clean energy technologies. But how safe are they?
Mining and disposal of these elements add to the environmental damages and ecological burden
Faecal sludge and septage management key for a clean Ganga
There is also a need to address the issue of greywater — the water from bathroom and kitchen — which continues to pollute water …
India needs a strategic direction on single-use plastics
There’s requirement of Mechanisms that will not only improve eco-consciousness among citizens but will also empower and encourage …
‘World’s first e-waste microfactory will create a ripple effect on jobs, especially for local communities’
Prof Veena Sahajwalla, the Indian-origin scientist who launched the world’s first microfactory for e-waste, talks to Down To Earth about …
Living next to Delhi’s trash mountain: Policies should focus on easing the struggles of waste pickers
These workers have no feasible access to social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and, most importantly waste sorting centres
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 24, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Timeless plastic: Museum displays vintage beached waste
Archeoplastica is a museum of ancient plastic items, now displaying some of the items in a virtual mode. As the world negotiates a new …
Bitter sweet: Petha production in Agra leaves behind waste and pollution
CSE study recommends that Agra must develop a number of strategies to reduce the impact of petha-making units on its environment and …
New membrane to help remove oil, dyes from industrial waste water
The membrane, developed by team from IIT-G, using graphene oxide, cotton fibre and dopamine removed around 98 per cent of oil from the water
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Letting sanitation workers die inside sewers is not ‘seva’: Bezwada Wilson
The activist speaks to Down To Earth on issues perpetuating manual scavenging and challenges in resolving them
Self-sufficiency and plastic ban
Imagine a scenario where packaging isn’t easy and cheap. The need would be, then, to create a self-sufficient neighbourhood
Littering in South Africa is the expression of wider selfish – and costly – culture
Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society'…
How Indigenous cultural practices can improve waste management in communities
Applying cultural practices is not common among community members because of the impacts of colonisation
India recycles only 1% of its construction and demolition waste: CSE
The rest remains strewn across, in landfills, or in plain sight everywhere, leading to air and water pollution
Polyester recycling: Sector largely informal; home furnishing makers in Panipat, Delhi found flouting norms
Downcycled products made at Panipat factories cannot be recycled again; are sent to landfills or burned at the end of their life-cycle
Single-use plastic ban: Reading the fine print reveals ominous loopholes
Packaging, which is almost 60% of India’s plastic waste, has not been listed to be phased out
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 15, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 20, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week&…
Municipalities responsible for dirty India, says NITI Aayog CEO
Amitabh Kant says civic bodies are entering various businesses while forgetting that their primary job is to clean their jurisdiction
Life of Plastic: India is not collecting and recycling its polymer waste properly; here is how
Plastic waste in India is collected mostly by ragpickers, rather than the authorities; 68% of the plastic waste generated in India is …
UNEA 5.2: Australia dumping plastic in ASEAN countries despite ending exports in 2020, shows report
Australia promoting policies driving “massive investment” in plastic waste fuel, says report
The Philippines gets its first ‘zero waste’ island
Residents of Apo Island now rinse and dry out their plastic bottles, food cans and other recyclables before throwing them away
Silent pandemic needs agenda for change
The rise of antimicrobial resistance is as catastrophic as COVID-19 or climate change