Feed from leftovers

'Tsunami of e-waste' to hit the world soon, warns new UN report

The sheer volume of production, lack of recycling and poor abiding of laws means that the globe could be in for a doomsday scenario, it notes

"Swachh Bharat Mission echoes sterilisation campaign of 70s"

A new book exposes the lacunae in the way India manages its waste and recommends changes in practices and attitudes toward waste. Robin Jeffrey …

More than 50% rural households across 5 states are still without toilets

The low performance of these 5 states can prevent India from achieving 100 % toilet coverage by October 2019

India's plastic consumption increases at over 10 per cent year-on-year

Despite this, policy and implementation is woefully out of step to deal with the problem of managing the mounting waste

Life of Plastic: India is not collecting and recycling its polymer waste properly; here is how

Plastic waste in India is collected mostly by ragpickers, rather than the authorities; 68% of the plastic waste generated in India is …

UNEA 5.2: Australia dumping plastic in ASEAN countries despite ending exports in 2020, shows report

Australia promoting policies driving “massive investment” in plastic waste fuel, says report

The Philippines gets its first ‘zero waste’ island 

Residents of Apo Island now rinse and dry out their plastic bottles, food cans and other recyclables before throwing them away

Silent pandemic needs agenda for change

The rise of antimicrobial resistance is as catastrophic as COVID-19 or climate change  

COVID-19: What it is to ‘work from home’ for women waste-pickers

Most housing units in Bhalaswa village have not been upgraded to support informal waste work. This impacts women’s productivity, …

How China plans to phase out single-use plastics by 2025

However, it must ensure fair practices to achieve environmentally-driven, economically viable expectations

Plastic waste can be used for decontamination of water

This newly developed low-cost magnetic nanomaterial has the adsorptive potential for cephalexin from the water

Future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good

Tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year, but a switch away from petroleum-based products to bio-derived and degradable composites could …

Government still chasing toilets, but that won’t solve sanitation issues: experts

The government is still correlating the number of toilets built with open defecation-free status of villages

China building ‘fundamentally unsafe’ nuclear reactors; marine life at risk

The lead-cooled thermal reactors can kill off their crews with radiation and their radioactive waste could spread far and wide

Kerala's protected, yet polluted lake

Though Kerala's Ashtamudi lake is a Ramsar site, government bodies and industries continue to pollute it

Left to dry

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation hopes to arrest the city's dipping groundwater by reviving its dying lakes. But in the absence of strong wetland …

Fisherfolk thwart bid to reclaim wetlands

A unique fishing cooperative that salvaged the wetlands leased to them by the Calcutta Port Trust has successfully fought off attempts to …

Skilled hands turn waste bark into art

The planting of commercially valuable chir trees has become embroiled in controversy in Ultar Pradesh's Almora district. But a local …

Thrashing out trash

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: MODES, ASSESSMENTS, APPRAISALS AND LINKAGES IN BANGALORE Edited by Isa Baud and Hans Schenk Publishers: Manohar …

In the line of fire

A Supreme Court ruling to install waste incinerators in India is under a scathing attack from environmental activists

Waste not

Kitchen waste and aquatic weeds are the newest sources for biogas and manure. The days of cowdung are numbered

Liability sans facility

Draft rules ask health centres to ensure their waste is treated  

Unmanaged waste in Tripura

Biomedical waste management system fails to take off in Tripura

Uncontrolled e-waste treatment produces carcinogenic effects

Most e-waste does not get disposed of properly, ending up in developing countries