World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023: Many Indian cities, rural areas are still struggling to manage sanitary waste

There is an urgent need to explore other ways of managing sanitary waste

COVID-19: Revised guidelines show how biomedical waste must be handled

Extra precautions to be taken by sanitation workers, healthcare facilities and COVID-19 isolation wards are also described

COVID-19: India’s circular economy faces a rough ride

Only municipalities have been collecting waste but at different frequencies; there is no secondary segregation and resource recovery

Gujarat hospitals are not disposing of biomedical waste safely: CAG

Only 27 per cent of test-checked government hospitals, health centres are segregating waste; many flout rules by burning the hazardous waste