Centre amends Plastic Waste Rules, but misses out on strengthening implementation

The amendment does not address the issue of changes needed in plastic waste rules concerning extended producer responsibility

Centre amends e-waste management rules 2016 yet again

Even the producers or importers, who have recently started their operations, have been given a collection target which is lesser than the targets …

Feed it to the earthworm

That is what Lata Srikhande, a Pune housewife, did to solve her domestic waste disposal problems. Now her neighbourhood is following suit

Declared dead

Karnataka hospitals face closure for not treating waste

E-toxic trail

Moradabad's e-waste dismantling and recycling industry has severely polluted the Ramganga river, finds a new CSE study

Okhla waste-energy plant gets show cause notice

The Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has been given 15 days to respond why they defied the terms of the Environment Clearance

Government notifies new solid waste management rules

These will replace the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, which have been in place for the past 16 years  

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 …

It's money, stupid

Waste can fuel savings in cement plants

Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads

Alipore hospital to close down

Flouted waste disposal norms  

North America discarded over 5 billion kg of industrial waste in 2018 and most of it went to landfills

New study looks into waste disposal by 24,000 facilities in Canada, Mexico and the United States

Why Ghaziabad’s waste management is in the dumps

The city is still grappling with source segregation, door-to-door collection, waste treatment and processing and on-site organic waste management

Sri Lanka is not anybody’s dumping ground

In a major win, the country's Court of Appeals recently ordered the repatriation of hazardous waste imported from the UK

Swachh Survekshan 2017 encouraging unsustainable approaches for waste management: CSE

Says the survey should give preference to waste segregation and recycle and reuse over centralised approaches like landfill and waste-to-energy plants

E-waste recycling hub: Moradabad

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

Is India prepared to manage its burgeoning medical waste challenge?

Multiple shortcomings in the system and a gap between waste generation and treatment exist

Stringent step

Costly garbage

Why dumping plastic waste in landfills is a much bigger issue

Potential routes for plastic losses from landfills involve environmental mechanisms like wind, flooding, leaching and runoffs

Computer for roads

New strategy adopted

Madurai clean-up

In Court

Factory sludge nurtures fodder