New membrane to help remove oil, dyes from industrial waste water

The membrane, developed by team from IIT-G, using graphene oxide, cotton fibre and dopamine removed around 98 per cent of oil from the water

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2019)

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

Will India’s recycling sector collapse under the new GST regime?

Under the new GST regime, all categories of scrap now have a high tax rate of mostly 18 per cent

Did you know about public toilets that turn urine into electricity?

The researchers plan to test these urinals in India or in some regions of Africa, especially at refugee camps

Solving India's garbage problem

Segregation at source should be at the heart of municipalities’ solid waste management system

'India way ahead in tackling waste'

PAUL CONNET, professor at the Chemistry department, St Lawrence University, New York, has toured 29 countries in the last 11 years, educating …

Cleaning the microbe way

Even the tiniest microbes could help spruce up our foul environment when let loose on domestic waste. Researchers in Delhi are now advocating the …

Managing railway waste

The Indian Railways is the second largest railway network in Asia. It is the biggest public sector enterprise in India and connects the entire …

Simply Put: Plastic waste

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 13, 2024)

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

Simply Put: Eternal gift

Simply Put: Plastic Planet

Childhood lost among heaps of hazardous waste

Simply put: More plastic waste is now making its way to Southeast Asia

Simply Put: Plastic waste dumped on streets

Simply Put: Coca-Cola

India’s plastic waste situation wasn’t created today

Let’s chart the issue and see what it’s made of

Full coverage: Green agenda for the new govt

Here is what environmentalists and experts expect from the new regime

Simply put: Malaysia to send back waste to US, UK Canada etc

Cross Hairs

Women’s empowerment and environmental restoration: Sundargarh’s sustainable evolution shows the way

Ground-breaking solid waste management programme ‘Aama Sundargarh Swachh Sundargarh’ benefitted 1,602,916 individuals, 363,676 households

Sanitation will remain a mirage even after India stops defecating in the open

Although we will meet the target of an open defecation free India much before deadline, it is still the easiest milestone that we have crossed. …

What is the global treaty on plastic pollution?

This treaty will serve as a framework for an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a legally binding agreement mandating countries …

‘World’s first e-waste microfactory will create a ripple effect on jobs, especially for local communities’

Prof Veena Sahajwalla, the Indian-origin scientist who launched the world’s first microfactory for e-waste, talks to Down To Earth about …

Rare earth metals are used extensively in clean energy technologies. But how safe are they?

Mining and disposal of these elements add to the environmental damages and ecological burden