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Findings of annual rural sanitation survey questionable

The claim of 96.5 per cent rural households having access to toilets with potential usage is somewhat doubtful, especially in a scenario where other ground reports depict a different picture

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Dalit activists, leaders decry Prime Minister’s ‘Christ-like’ act

It is just a gimmick to fool Dalits whereas their real problems are unaddressed, they say

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Report on e-waste management places 5 companies in the red

Toxic Link assesses companies on extended producer responsibility over handling and recycling e-waste  

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Now thermal power plants recovering waste heat need no green clearance

The MoEF&CC relaxed the EIA norms to benefit industries employing Waste Heat Recovery Boilers without any auxiliary fuel

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Whose waste is it?

Producers are shifting their plastic recovery responsibility to other companies

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Building toilets in rural schools is not enough, they have to be usable too

Around 23 per cent of rural schools have unusable toilets and 11.5 per cent have no separate toilets for girls, finds the 13th ASER report 

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E-waste is not waste, but treasure

There is 100 times more gold in a tonne of smart phones than in a tonne of gold ore itself! But the precious metal is virtually thrown away due to poor recycling of e-waste

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'Tsunami of e-waste' to hit the world soon, warns new UN report

The sheer volume of production, lack of recycling and poor abiding of laws means that the globe could be in for a doomsday scenario, it notes

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Kumbh Mela 2019: What’s happening to all the waste?

Estimated amount of fecal matter produced during the Kumbh Mela is 18 times of what the district produces daily; how this waste will be treated and managed is still not clear

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Garbage dumps leading to shift in food habits of wild animals

Animals and birds at some places in Uttarakhand are becoming more dependent on anthropological food waste, says new study

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Despite toilets in place, a quarter of rural population stuck to open defecation

New study on changes in open defecation in rural North India says pace of toilet construction increased under Swachh Bharat Mission, but there was also prevalence of coercion

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Focus on community sanitary complexes: Standing Committee to govt

In its latest report on the status of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), the Standing Committee on Rural Development said that community complexes would help the cause of the mission more by serving a large population

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Indian states’ implementation of plastic ban a mixed bag

Tamil Nadu is the latest entrant to the band of Indian states that have banned single-use plastics; here’s a status update on all of them

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Indian-American’s start-up could revolutionise the fight against marine litter

Based in Los Angeles, ‘Moral Fiber’ has developed a three-step chemical process that can extract polyester from mixed blend materials and will be useful in recycling other plastics

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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

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Rewind 2018: How India dealt with its waste

India has policies to deal with all kinds of waste but implementation is weak and not monitored effectively

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Building toilets won’t make India open defecation free: World Bank study

The research analysed attitudes of people in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, all of whom had toilets in their houses. Almost half were unwilling to use them

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Improved catalyst can speed up conversion of industrial biomass into biofuel

Pune researchers develop an environment-friendly way for the conversion

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Court digest: Major environmental hearings of the week

The top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

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World’s first bio-brick can help reduce CO2 emissions

University of Cape Town researchers have developed world’s first bio-brick from human urine

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In hope of a plastic waste-free island

Although Zanzibar is cashing in on tourism, it is also battling plastic menace in the form of litter consisting of discarded water bottles and toiletries