Recycle waste 'In-my-Backyard'

The business of recycling only works when it discounts the costs of health and environment of poor people working in dangerous conditions

Why Asia's biggest industrial relocation scheme failed to create a pollution-free Delhi

Bawana was created to shift polluting industrial units operating in Delhi's residential areas, but the initiative has benefitted factory owners …

Waste and sanitation in news on April 17

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

Delhi government to set up Rs 10.3 crore water recycling plant in Bawana

At present, Bawana water treatment plant lacks a recycling plant leading to acute wastage of water  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 9, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

BJP's promise of energy from waste heats up Delhi civic polls

Okhla residents accuse BJP and Congress of trying to poison people by promoting waste incineration to generate electricity

Relocation pangs

Shifting of industries to Bawana will affect groundwater reserves

Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants

Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose

Delhi's new public health concern—Japanese encephalitis

Did pigs bring it?