Rubbish for Remain or Bins for Brexit? How the EU affects your garbage

There is a chance that the average Briton might have to pay more for his or her bendy banana skins to be picked up if the UK does leave the EU

What a dump

Agartala has just one dump yard to cater to its 4 lakh residents

A different muse

Package collection plan promotes recycling

Germany's environmental laws are slowly ushering in a culture of waste reduction, especially in packaging material.

Tourism threatened

Taking big business to the trash cans

Trash to trash

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 …

In the pay of plastics

India's biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West's fashion for unsustainable living

RIVER CONTAMINATION

No space for garbage

Where do we dump it?

A Ray of Hope

At least 80 per cent of solid waste generated by the Dal Lake dwellers is being disposed off safely due to the efforts of hope

Junk stops here

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

Waste management site turns into garbage dump

South Asia

Nagpur ragpickers out, machines in

Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?

Reasons include the sacred status of several volcanoes, the toxic nature of trash and the design of volcanoes

In short

Thumbs down

Waste not, want not

Waste generated in Guwahati will now be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity

Lightly treads the tourist

Nepal's Annapurna Conservation Area Project has made tremendous strides in pursuit of eco-tourism. The key is empowering local people

3D scanning technology can tell how clean Indian cities are

The new method is cost-effective and could readily be used by municipal bodies across the country to estimate the waste collection efficiency at …

IN PHOTOS: After Ghazipur, Bhalswa in Delhi is alight

Scientists say the formation of extremely flammable methane in the landfill, coupled with high temperatures could have started the fire

Revive the old tradition and plan for garbage logistics to treat Arunachal’s waste problem

If the common sense of the mountain community can be preserved and facilitated with active institutions, the pollution issue can be solved in …