Manufacturers to recycle

Thin is ugly

Plastic bags should be at least 100 microns thick says the government in Goa

Slow and unsteady

Blast glass

Ceramics from blast furnace waste

Will the plastic degrade?

Loopholes in technology, Delhi government's order

Just re-use it

Sri Lanka finds a way to re-use furniture waste

Online

Burdened by refuse

Industries and local councils have had to come to the rescue of Germany's ambitious recycling programme, which is overwhelmed by a huge volume of …

Jakarta scavengers moan loss of scrap trade

Indonesia is burdened, in more ways than one, by other nations treating it as a dumping ground for their wastes.

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Battery management

The colour of fashion

'Eco-friendly' clothes look cool on the ramp model, but how long will they stay in vogue?

Package solutions

It's time to put tetrapaks to good use: recycle them into boards

Helping hand

Dumping dilemma

IT paves the way

Wordplay

Bid to dilute definition of radioactive wastes in the US

Cementia

India's consumer movement doesn't exist

All at sea

Water treatment need not cost the earth

Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high-tech water treatment systems instead of low-cost, low-tech water treatment …

Feed it to the earthworm

That is what Lata Srikhande, a Pune housewife, did to solve her domestic waste disposal problems. Now her neighbourhood is following suit

Shape of things to come

A novel method to convert plastic bags into new shapes could help minimise their adverse effects on our environment

"The West now understands that waste can be a resource"

Sweden's UNO WINBLAD was not a sanitation engineer but had trained as an architect in London in the late '50s. Those were the days of mounting …

Recycled paper up on global popularity chart

Computer for roads