Chinese officials aided industries to defy pollution rules

President Xi Jinping had last year called for efforts to fight pollution

In their disposable cups

Anti-muck drive

Oxidising hazardous wastes

Gadgets not lasting as long as you would like them to? Welcome to planned obsolescence

Intentionally manufacturing products with short lifespan is dangerous amid rapid growth for the electronics industry  

The cleanest cities of India: Kakinada uses facial recognition, GPS, RFID to stay clean

Kakinada, a city of over 0.35 million people, uses the latest technology to monitor and supervise waste collection

Cleanest Cities of India: How cities resolved their garbage problem?

A  new docu-series showcases nine Indian cities with nine separate waste management models that need to be replicated to help …

Ten zero-waste cities: Bandung’s slow but steady drive to reduce its trash

Indonesia’s third-largest city is not fully zero-waste yet. But its journey is inspirational

Harsh Vardhan inaugurates plant to convert plastic waste into diesel in Dehradun

The plant can convert one tonne of plastic waste into 800 litres of diesel every day

Delhi rubble diaries

A casual investigation by a CSE researcher reveals that most municipal employees in the national capital neither know, nor care about proper ways …

Is green menstruation possible?

One sanitary pad could take 500 to 800 years to decompose as the plastic used is non-biodegradable and can lead to health and environmental …

Can India afford online food orders and takeaways?

The mineral water bottles we order, packaged food we buy and disposable cutlery we use are choking our planet. So let’s practice a few …

Small cities win big on waste management

When it comes to managing their waste, small cities are showing the way through key policies and strict monitoring

Waste in news on May 10

Chandigarh plans segregation without a plan, Cuttack's solid waste projects awaits HC verdict

How to Manage and Compost Kitchen Waste at Home : Explained in Five Easy Steps

Priyanka Bhasin, from Roots and Wings, is a partner with Daily Dump. She explains what is organic waste, how to segregate the waste and compost …

Trash to trash

BAN ON DUMPING

South Africa

Trash tax

Let Delhi breathe

Hospitals and hotels asked to use degradable plastic

Clean champions: This Himachal couple trains teachers and students to promote sustainable living practices

Shruti and Abhishek Taneja realised the need for such programmes after moving to Solan in 2014, having worked in Delhi and Mumbai

Time to address Delhi’s rising challenge of legacy waste: If not now, when?

If the current trend of dumping fresh waste continues, Delhi will have to deal with an additional 1 crore tonnes of waste in another 5 years,…

SC admonishes Centre for poor affidavit on solid waste management

The Supreme Court bench, which was hearing a PIL on Solid Waste Management Rules, came down heavily on the government counsel for not fully …

CSE releases first-of-a-kind study on waste management in India

Municipalities across the country have been urged to place segregation at the heart of waste management system

Waste smart cities

A survey by the Centre for Science and Environment shows how Indian cities are turning over a new leaf in solid waste management