Single-use plastic ban: Reading the fine print reveals ominous loopholes

Packaging, which is almost 60% of India’s plastic waste, has not been listed to be phased out

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 15, 2020)

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

Municipalities responsible for dirty India, says NITI Aayog CEO

Amitabh Kant says civic bodies are entering various businesses while forgetting that their primary job is to clean their jurisdiction

Opportunity waste

A senior technical manager says there is a lot of money to be made in management of industrial waste

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

Producer's onus paramount

One of the pioneers of the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) theory, Thomas Lindhqvist believes that plastic waste management will become …

Shear waste

Efficient e-waste recycling technology on the anvil

"Waste minimisation, a training manual"

Deep inside Chittagong's shipbreaking yards

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 2, 2023)

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

Emerging hazard: Radioactive contamination increasingly found in scraps for recycling, says UN body

Radioactive contaminated metal, if used to manufacture household goods, could pose a potential health problem to unsuspecting consumers: …

Dealing with waste

On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste

Developing countries are dumpyards for e-waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys,…

Canada’s e-waste generation more than tripled over 20 years, finds study

Per person e-waste generation in Canada was 25.3 kg in 2020

COVID-19: Here is what you should do to safely dispose your used mask

Some simple guidelines to ensure safe disposal of used masks

No plastic ban: What it means for India?

Here are a few suggestions on how the country can handle the plastic menace

Now there's a way to offset food wasted at weddings

Redirecting wasted food to the needy through initiatives could usher in a change

Waste in news on May 4

A round-up of what's new in waste

Bezwada Wilson, a Magsaysay winner who eradicated manual scavenging in India

Manual scavenging was termed illegal under the 1993 Manual Scavenging Prohibition Act

New hazardous waste rules recognise it as a resource for recovery and reuse

Rules environment & industry-friendly, says Prakash Javadekar

What a waste

Waste into energy

Waste behind bars

Waste-recycling and optimal resource-use is giving the Capital's prison a new purpose

Bathroom reading

Fireproof plastic