Beyond the odds
Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their 'environmental awareness' campaign
Cleanest Cities of India: How cities resolved their garbage problem?
A new docu-series showcases nine Indian cities with nine separate waste management models that need to be replicated to help …
States now aspire to get ODF plus tag
Here’s a status update on how certain states are trying to promote holistic cleanliness
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 …
Kochi: Brahmapuram fire exposes outdated waste management practices in Kerala cities
In Brahmapuram, in all probability, the blaze broke out from thick layers of dry plastic waste heaped for several years
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 20, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
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 …
Supreme Court okays Agra waste-energy plant; will that make the city cleaner
The city administration is looking forward to the technology, but with limited understanding of it; the recycling infrastructure remains severely …
The idea of a clean city
could well become a myth by 2007. More than half of the world' s population by then would be urban dwelling. The urban ecological footprint would …
COVID-19 lockdown a good time to compost your waste. Here's how to do it
Home composting can shed load off workers. About 50-70% of Indian households generate waste that is organic in nature
'Municipal Corporation, Jaypee behind Chandigarh's garbage mess'
Dispute over waste segregation has turned Chandigarh’s only garbage processing facility into a landfill
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. …
Closure of community bin area in Delhi deals blow to waste pickers
The informal waste recyclers in Connaught Place also segregated the waste collected. They extracted recyclables from waste and sold it
Make wealth from waste
Residential societies can set up their own composting plants to tackle biodegradable waste profitably
Ghazipur, Delhi: Just why has this landfill been simmering for so long
The reality is that all kinds of waste is being dumped at landfill sites since the system of segregation and recycling is not in place. This …
CAG report shows how Karnataka's solid waste management is in disarray
Faultlines at urban bodies: Lack of segregation, no identification of dump sites, absence of GPS
Delhi’s solid waste: a systemic failure
Landfill sites in Delhi had exceeded their capacity way back in 2008 and most of these sites have contaminated groundwater in and around their …
Depolluting Dal
They are not concerned about the troubles in the valley. Their main concern is to save Dal lake from death
State of Waste: India chokes
In 2020-21, India generated 160,039 tonnes of municipal solid waste a day. Of this, 32% remained unaccounted for, which usually ends up choking …
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 …
How one social enterprise is working to make Ladakh waste-free
Ladakh has progressed a lot in recent years in developing a sound waste recovery mechanism, but there is still a lot more to be done to make …
India drowns in construction, demolition debris
Waste is piling up across the country. Regulations are in place, but recycling is yet to gain momentum. Down To Earth breaks down the …