No land for best option: composting
Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, does not have a municipal waste-treatment facility. Its only plant to treat solid waste, located …
Temple and open defecation: Shifting narratives of sacred and profane
How did people of Karnataka’s Berambadi village strategically redefine the nature of open defecation spaces?
Waste trade: Is this right?
Waste is a resource for traders as they cannot afford to let it be burnt, but there is waste that cannot be recycled and has to be burnt
CSE launches Forum of Cities that Segregate
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been working with cities to promote and implement source-segregation model of waste management. …
Fecal Sludge Management (FSM) in Delhi - a case study
A large portion of Delhi is unsewered. Almost half of the households either use septic tanks or openly defecate. This film looks at the …
Swachh Bharat Mission: We may be ODF, but not garbage free
The scheme’s aim to turn India’s waste into a resource has seen limited success
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
These teenage waste crusaders are cleaning up Delhi's mess
Two brothers run a non-profit that collects dry waste, segregates it and then delivers it to recyclers
India needs to adopt nature-friendly sanitation technologies
Making design changes in toilets that conserve water and do not create sewage is the key to ecological sanitation
Is waste on the govt’s mind?
The new government will need to prioritise this in the coming years, otherwise we will run out of resources, poison our environment and have …
50% of plastic packaging to be recycled by 2025: European Council
According to new rules adopted for waste management and recycling by the European Council, all member states must recycle 50% plastic packaging …
Kerala's protected, yet polluted lake
Though Kerala's Ashtamudi lake is a Ramsar site, government bodies and industries continue to pollute it
Balaghat: How to decentralise waste management in a small city
Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh has shown the way for small cities to adopt sustainable decentralised waste management practices. The town is pushing …
Why Panaji should not give up on decentralised waste management
The City Corporation of Panaji wants to discontinue the decentralised waste management system that helped it become a bin-free city
Fix at source: Bengaluru must rope in bulk generators to decentralise waste management
Recurrent flash floods indicate that the city’s seemingly robust solid waste management system is either not being implemented effectively …
Imphal struggles to handle its waste
After a seven-month-long protest, the city’s municipal corporation reached a solution which too isn’t permanent
What Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 should be like?
While the mission got people talking about sanitation and cleanliness, its implementation needs a lot of work
Rewind 2018: How India dealt with its waste
India has policies to deal with all kinds of waste but implementation is weak and not monitored effectively
Groundwater and health of residents at risk due to waste dumping in Aravallis
Villages of Faridabad and Gurgaon are protesting against a landfill site proposed by the Haryana government in the region
This plastic recycling unit is a ‘silver lining’ in Guwahati’s burgeoning waste problem; here’s how
These initiatives incorporate everyone in the circular economy— from ragpickers to informal workers and even residents — in reducing …
“When youth works for society, elders begin to reflect on their actions”
It all started in April 2017 with a 5-day camp, where around 200 students from 32 schools in Thiruvananthapuram were given a hands-on-experience …
In Telangana’s Badanpet, a dumpsite turns into a rock garden, nursery
As of now, this nursery is self-reliant in supplying saplings for horticultural purposes, park development, road median development, greening and …
CSE commits to strengthen solid waste management in Tanzania at 2nd pan-Africa workshop
CSE and NEMC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the waste management in Tanzania
As garbage crisis in Delhi worsens, lack of funds for civic bodies gets focus
Sanitation workers have called for a strike for the fifth time in two years, which highlights the financial crisis facing the municipal bodies
Dar-es-Salaam’s waste management needs a complete revamp
The waste crisis at Pugu dumpsite in Tanzania’s economic capital is rising and urgent interventions are needed
