Uproar over a burning issue

With rising awareness regarding the hazards of incinerating waste, a lot of proposals for incinerators have been ruled out in the West and the …

Shape of things to come

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

Open violation

While private service stations bear the brunt of the Delhi government's green brigade, polluting railway service stations go scot free

How Karnataka manages its faeces

Thirty years after banning manual scavenging under the Night Soil Carrying System Abolition Act, Karnataka is still a fair way away from flushing …

Timo Makela on E-Waste

Timo Makela, European Commission Director of International Affairs, explains how e-waste is not waste, but an important resource.

"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 …

What is the status of dumpsite remediation across India

Total of 13 states and three UTs are lagging behind the target

As told to Parliament (December 8, 2022): Annual PM10 levels dropped in 95 cities this year

Twenty cities met National Ambient Air Quality Standards for PM10 in 2021-22 compared to 4 in 2017-18

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 8-15)

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

Tourists, not trash

How a popular tourist destination in Sikkim became the first village in India to ban bottled water and manage the trash left behind by tourists, …

IT's underbelly

India produces about 400,000 tonnes of electronic waste each year, growing exponentially. Handling this is a great challenge. What adds to it is …

Plastic oil

Ideal disposal for waste plastic bottles

States fined thousands of crores over waste — but how did NGT calculate the penalty amount?

Fine determined on polluter pays principle, equated to environmental compensation and cost of restoration

Plastic Peril

Waste management is key to keeping the oceans free of plastic waste, new research suggests

There's nothing august about Mumbai

July 26, 2005: It began raining at 11 am. In the next 24 hours, India's most populous city received 944 mm of rainfall. The resultant flood …

Mumbai's solid waste management plans expensive, dangerous

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

Supreme Court seeks status report on hazardous waste directives

The directives were issued by a monitoring committee appointed by the court on October 14, 2003

Light on mercury

Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light

Ghaziabad battles noxious fumes from burnt batteries

India is all set to go for its first waste-to-hydrogen project

Hydrogen generated at a facility in Pune will be utilised locally to help the city lower its emissions, manage waste optimally

Global treaty to cut plastic production needed urgently: EIA report ahead of UN summit

Over 70 big consumer brands also appeal to reduce plastic production in joint statement

In short

Slack approach

CPCB cracks whip on 52 firms for flouting plastic waste rules

This is the first time the pollution watchdog has held companies accountable for not holding their end of the deal