Trading in recyclables

Facing packaging problems

Shared misery

The government has finalised a strategy to get industries to reduce their waste

MONEYMAKERS

Plastic Peril

Plastics are useful, but their use and disposal should be bound by a strong policy

RECYCLING WASTE

Staging a comeback

The old glass syringe is back in Calcutta's government hospitals

Row over a dump site

INDIA

Here to stay

The Supreme Court stays the auction of toxic wastes

Garbage power

Death of a computer

There is an urgent need to develop a technology to recycle old computers

CHINA

The real killers

The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles

The incinerator war

Heavy metals in water

Dark brown is the river

Sullied and foul , the Yamuna is no longer the stuff of fiction or poetry

Cruising standards

Plastic woes

Goa battles against the plastic menace

Waste-free city

Trash takes its toll

In bad taste

West's waste

Sludge-scrapers

Cement from sewage

Dodgy exports