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New study maps how much energy, nutrients and water are locked in world’s wastewater

Efficiently treating wastewater can help meet SDGs: UN-backed research

Watch before you eat

Air pollution contributes to heavy metals in vegetables

E-fabrics steal the show at Sao Paulo Fashion Week

US EPA takes up cell phone recycling campaign

Unchecked tyre recycling units wreak environmental havoc

Only 46% of tyre pyrolysis oil units in the country comply with norms

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Garbage collectors protest in Nicaragua

African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution

Enforcement of water and environmental laws must be in place to protect the environment

Garbage is about recycling

It is time we accepted that each household is a waste generator

Mind the mercury

Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded

Norway's eco-friendly prison

West Africa’s plastic waste could be fuelling the economy instead of polluting the ocean: Experts

Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Seychelles gets ambitious with its waste

Government unveils master sanitation plan to protect environment

COVID-19: Alang’s ship breakers look at workers from diamond, other sectors to stay afloat

The industry witnessed a reverse migration of at least 75 per cent of its workforce

Environment ministry notifies construction & demolition waste management rules

Construction and demolition waste is not a waste but a resource, says Prakash Javadekar

Life of a licenced e-waste collector

With no government monitoring, e-waste management is proving difficult

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Recycled food waste may be contaminated with pharma residues but mushroom cultivation may come to rescue

Biogas digestate from food waste had nearly as many pharmaceutical residues as digestate from sewage sludge, new study shows

Dismantle with ease: Facility in Ghaziabad offers safe working space for e-waste recyclers

Facility for both informal and formal dismantlers; offering a complete system including tools, equipment and training 

COVID-19 clues in a community’s sewage: 4 questions answered about watching wastewater for coronavirus

Wastewater monitoring could inform all sorts of public health intervention and disease surveillance programmes

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

The Wasted Earth

Waste has become a global problem, and is demanding curative technologies that require almost preternatural efficiency to execute. And that keep …