Trading in recyclables

Facing packaging problems

Shared misery

The government has finalised a strategy to get industries to reduce their waste

Death of a computer

There is an urgent need to develop a technology to recycle old computers

CHINA

The real killers

The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles

The incinerator war

Heavy metals in water

Dark brown is the river

Sullied and foul , the Yamuna is no longer the stuff of fiction or poetry

Cruising standards

Plastic woes

Goa battles against the plastic menace

Waste-free city

Trash takes its toll

In bad taste

Sludge-scrapers

Cement from sewage

Dodgy exports

Sunscreen, soda...voila

Champion of recyclers

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 20, 2023)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 7, 2023)

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

Single-use plastic bans: Research shows three ways to make them effective

Without supporting measures, or by failing to treat the ban as the beginning of a broader phase-down of plastic, banning some items does little …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 11, 2022)

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

Bitter sweet: The story of Agra’s petha waste

In 2021, when merely 7 per cent of the units were functional, 17.8 tonnes of petha waste per day was generated

Time’s running out: Is India ready to handle 34,600 tonnes of solar waste by 2030?

With India’s ambitious solar target of 280 GW by 2030, it is time to formulate a sound solar waste management policy  

Can bioplastics save us from drowning in our own waste?

Alternatives like paper, cloth, biodegradable plastics, glass, etc have relative merits and no single alternative can be the solution to what is …