Harsh Vardhan inaugurates plant to convert plastic waste into diesel in Dehradun
The plant can convert one tonne of plastic waste into 800 litres of diesel every day
Delhi rubble diaries
A casual investigation by a CSE researcher reveals that most municipal employees in the national capital neither know, nor care about proper ways …
Is green menstruation possible?
One sanitary pad could take 500 to 800 years to decompose as the plastic used is non-biodegradable and can lead to health and environmental …
Can India afford online food orders and takeaways?
The mineral water bottles we order, packaged food we buy and disposable cutlery we use are choking our planet. So let’s practice a few …
Small cities win big on waste management
When it comes to managing their waste, small cities are showing the way through key policies and strict monitoring
Waste in news on May 10
Chandigarh plans segregation without a plan, Cuttack's solid waste projects awaits HC verdict
How to Manage and Compost Kitchen Waste at Home : Explained in Five Easy Steps
Priyanka Bhasin, from Roots and Wings, is a partner with Daily Dump. She explains what is organic waste, how to segregate the waste and compost …
Tricks of the e-waste trade
New rules offer no help to informal operators. They ignore reality and are likely to be toothless
Why waste management in Northeast India needs an urgent overhaul
Specialised policies needed for mountainous regions;standardised national-level policies lack nuance for regional challenges
Waste to wealth: Challenges India needs to overcome to use biosolids for improving soil health, meeting SDGs
The reuse of biosolids from sewage and septage treatment plants in India presents a remarkable opportunity to transform waste into a valuable resource
International E-waste day: The tsunami is here
The volume of E-waste increased by 21% globally in the last 5 years; it has a doubling rate of 16 years
How Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants are way off the mark
The recent uproar against the Okhla plant highlights how none of three in the Capital is effectively doing what they are supposed to
Is Swachh Bharat Mission ensuring waste segregation systems?
Segregation is still not being followed in its true spirit across India due to the lack of adequate end-to-end infrastructure for waste …
Swachh Bharat Mission will achieve ODF target much before October 2019, but...
The country needs both financial and administrative attention towards ensuring effective management and disposal of solid and liquid waste
Pune’s draft bye-laws threaten existing model of plastic waste management
The bye-laws not only threaten the existing SWaCH model but also lacks clarity on guidelines for extended producer responsibility
Asia witnessed 63 per cent jump in e-waste generation in five years
A UN study revealed that most of these countries lack the infrastructure to recycle e-waste safely and cleanly
The Wasted Earth
Waste has become a global problem, and is demanding curative technologies that require almost preternatural efficiency to execute. And that keep …
Novel medical waste treatment facility in Chennai
Tamil Nadu will soon have its first centralised biomedical waste treatment facility. The unit is being set up in Chennai by the Hyderabad-based G …
GOBAR-Dhan: CSE’s roadmap can address the challenges faced by Bio-CNG in India
CSE worked closely with the Ministry of Jal Shakti & identified the opportunities that can be tapped to realise the potential of organic …
Paradigm shift in transborder plastic waste trade
Agreement reached at 14th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention to make global trade in plastic scrap more transparent and better regulated
Learning the ropes
CSE assesses waste management systems in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu and Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh and finds they have still a long way to go
Swachh Survekshan 2017 results on May 4; government says signs are ‘encouraging’
Besides covering larger number of cities and towns, this year’s survey also gives more importance to citizen feedback
No polybags in Tripura
ON SEPTEMBER 16, the Tripura government's 20-month-old law banning plastic bags became more stringent. Seeking to remove the crinkles in the …
Bengaluru's trash talk
City administration makes fresh promises to get an extension to dump its waste at Mandur village. But will the five-month breather be enough for …
Wasted wealth
Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure
