Total e-waste generated would be enough to create 4,500 Eiffel Towers

United Nations has warned that the world is soon going to be hit by a tsunami of e-waste. It says that in 2018 the world has already produced 48.…

Waste in news on May 1

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around waste

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

Explainer: why we should be turning waste into fuel

Recycling has been the main approach for recovering resources and reducing landfill over the past 20 years, but a lot more needs to be done

Trash kings

The mafia's control of garbage business

Are combustibles derived from legacy waste dumpsites opportunity or challenge?

It is imperative to create an enabling ecosystem for increasing the gainful utilisation of refused derived fuel by industries

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

DTE multimedia team wins Ramnath Goenka Award for reporting on India’s waste management solutions

The organisation was recognised for its 9-part docu-series on India's cleanest cities & how they have tackled their waste management problems

Reuse of reclaimed land after biomining of legacy waste: What needs to change

Urban local bodies need a comprehensive policy for reuse of reclaimed land

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 …

States not complying with NGT orders to manage waste: CPCB

Lack a holistic way to manage waste and information gap were the main shortcomings

Alappuzha gets recognised by UNEP for its solid waste management practices

This city in Kerala has adopted decentralised waste management and is pushing for 100 per cent segregation in all the 23 wards

Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies

Australians send about 4 million tonnes of food waste to landfill each year – but what if we could use it for other purposes?

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 …

Treating waste

Participants at a recently-held workshop stressed the need for proper treatment of hospital wastes

India’s challenges in waste management

The key to efficient waste management is to ensure segregation source and resource recovery

Why it’s important to remediate Dar es Salaam’s Vingunguti dumpsite

Some 20 years after its closure, Vingunguti dumpsite continues to cause huge environmental and health hazards

Zero the way to go

Insubstantial collaboration with stakeholders in plastic waste management in Nepal: Study

Only 3% municipalities have worked or plan to work with companies and industries that use or produce plastic waste 

Working with waste pickers crucial for post-COVID-19 economic recovery: Report

Governments can transition to a zero-waste future by forging partnerships with informal recyclers, notes report

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

World Environment Day in numbers: Waste

In these temples, offerings do not go waste

They are carefully segregated and processed to create nutrient-rich organic manure

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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