Lead(ing) to disaster

Environmentally-hazardous backyard smelting units swell as multinationals fail to recycle used batteries

Backyard mess

Wastepaper is abundantly available in India. Yet the Indian paper industry depends heavily on imports. MONALI ZEYA HAZRA finds out why

Food can have toxic chemicals from recycling e-waste

A new study shows that recycling black plastic from electronic waste is introducing harmful chemicals such as bromine and lead into everyday …

Recycling spree

After paper and plastic, it is the turn of car parts to be recycled

The Philippines

Bricks, pavers from construction debris

Construction waste recycled to make bricks and pavers

Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads

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The trash piles up

With Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands insisting on high recycling targets, an agreement on waste packaging among European Community members …

E-waste recycling hub: Moradabad

Rudimentary and risky ways of recycling cut costs, offer the formal sector tough competition  

Waste not, want not

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

Winning by default

Automakers score high on compliance. Only because the regulations are too lax

Hope or hype?

Guarded optimism greets new biomedical waste treatment facility near Kanpur

Meerut's bane...

HC takes note of hospital waste recycling racket

Offloaded

Responsibility to dispose Mumbai's construction waste

Manage e-waste the EU way

Proposed legislation makes producers responsible for recycling

It’s a bad synthetic world

On current technology green plastics don’t inspire confidence  

Depolluting Dal

They are not concerned about the troubles in the valley. Their main concern is to save Dal lake from death

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

Ten zero-waste cities: What makes Penang stand out in waste recycling?

It has the highest recycling rate in Malaysia at 43 per cent

Recycling e-waste: ‘CPCB’s competence must be raised’

Swedish academic Thomas Lindhqvist, who introduced extended producer responsibility, says India doesn’t need better recycling rules, but …

World at a loss as China bans import of plastic waste

In 2017, China imported 7.3 million metric tonnes of waste, including metal, plastics and paper among other waste materials

Mere paperwork

The state government of Goa acknowledges that a green law passed in 1996 is toothless

Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

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