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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

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

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Focus on community sanitary complexes: Standing Committee to govt

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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

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Microplastics, now, in human stool: study

The study says consuming plastic packaged food, water allows microplastics to be ingested, & that consumers must rethink individual plastic usage

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3D scanning technology can tell how clean Indian cities are

The new method is cost-effective and could readily be used by municipal bodies across the country to estimate the waste collection efficiency at neighbourhood level, say experts

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Govt must get its hands dirty to rescue manual scavengers

Swachh Bharat Mission will end up perpetuating manual scavenging if the authorities fail to implement right toilet technology and manage the huge faecal sludge load

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Faulty policies allow unchecked use of multilayered plastic

The government has no clue how to deal with multilayered plastic and the industry has been aided by the government’s lackadaisical attitude

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Implementation of waste management laws remains woefully inadequate: Experts

Waste management experts had gathered at the launch of the book State of Waste in India

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This paper mill in Punjab is causing cancer, loss of vision

Residents allege that the Kuantum pulp and paper mill in Saila Khurd, the only industry in the block for 30 years, is responsible for their ailments

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Bengaluru moves towards plastic-free weddings

City municipal authorities have banned plastic during marriage ceremonies as per a September 7 order

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Manual scavenging: A stinking legacy of suffocation and stigma

Every year, hundreds of manual scavengers die, asphyxiated by poisonous gases

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Manual scavenging: Non-existent for govt, yet people die 30-ft under ground

The recent deaths of five manual scavengers again raises the question of how far will India let this problem go

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Globally, 23 cities pledge to reduce waste sent to landfills, incinerators by 50%

This commitment will avoid disposal of at least 87 million tonnes of waste by 2030

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Will Africa meet its sanitation target?

African countries, although serious about safe and total sanitation, are likely to miss Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

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Here's how many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags

Looking at raw materials, manufacturing, transport, and eventual disposal, researchers calculate greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, water and energy consumption and other impacts