Polyester recycling: Sector largely informal; home furnishing makers in Panipat, Delhi found flouting norms

Downcycled products made at Panipat factories cannot be recycled again; are sent to landfills or burned at the end of their life-cycle

Single-use plastic ban: Reading the fine print reveals ominous loopholes

Packaging, which is almost 60% of India’s plastic waste, has not been listed to be phased out

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 15, 2020)

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

Municipalities responsible for dirty India, says NITI Aayog CEO

Amitabh Kant says civic bodies are entering various businesses while forgetting that their primary job is to clean their jurisdiction

Opportunity waste

A senior technical manager says there is a lot of money to be made in management of industrial waste

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

Producer's onus paramount

One of the pioneers of the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) theory, Thomas Lindhqvist believes that plastic waste management will become …

Shear waste

Efficient e-waste recycling technology on the anvil

"Waste minimisation, a training manual"

Deep inside Chittagong's shipbreaking yards

Emerging hazard: Radioactive contamination increasingly found in scraps for recycling, says UN body

Radioactive contaminated metal, if used to manufacture household goods, could pose a potential health problem to unsuspecting consumers: …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 2, 2023)

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

Dealing with waste

On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste

Developing countries are dumpyards for e-waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys,…

Canada’s e-waste generation more than tripled over 20 years, finds study

Per person e-waste generation in Canada was 25.3 kg in 2020

Waste venture

A former cop shows a simple way to keep Delhi clean and green

CHINA

Waste worry

Kerala is finding it difficult to dispose its waste

WASTE WATCHDOG

INDIA

Paper to paper

Bhutan's first wastepaper recycling plant

Rajkot gears up

Straw wealth

A new process to make fertilisers -- and more --from straw

Now there's a way to offset food wasted at weddings

Redirecting wasted food to the needy through initiatives could usher in a change

COVID-19: Here is what you should do to safely dispose your used mask

Some simple guidelines to ensure safe disposal of used masks