Football footprint

Fenced by law

Radioactive Crime

Flush and forget

IIT Kanpur develops zero-waste toilets that reuse flushed water and recycle waste

From Britain to Nigeria

Green but noisy

Environment>> Frito-lay ÔÇó USA

The chef’s orders

RESTAURANT>> WASTE ÔÇó Australia

Waste Mismanagement: An open secret

Faulty policies allow unchecked use of multilayered plastic

The government has no clue how to deal with multilayered plastic and the industry has been aided by the government’s lackadaisical attitude

Plastic-free planet: Recycling increases toxicity of plastics, warns Greenpeace study

Plastics contain more than 13,000 chemicals and 3,200 of them known to be hazardous to human health

India faces stiff challenge with management of 187,200 tonnes of solar PV waste

The government should allocate dedicated funding for solar panel and cell recycling under the Atmanirbhar initiative

Revive the old tradition and plan for garbage logistics to treat Arunachal’s waste problem

If the common sense of the mountain community can be preserved and facilitated with active institutions, the pollution issue can be solved in …

Swachh Bharat Mission: We may be ODF, but not garbage free

The scheme’s aim to turn India’s waste into a resource has seen limited success

Recycling e-waste: ‘CPCB’s competence must be raised’

Swedish academic Thomas Lindhqvist, who introduced extended producer responsibility, says India doesn’t need better recycling rules, but …

Waste to worth

Innovative ways to solve the riddle of waste by turning it into useful and valuable products

Plastics ban calls for deliberation, not draconian measures

While a plastic-free society may sound good, issues like lack of alternatives to banned products and potential threats to livelihoods of millions …

To treat toxic wastewater without chemicals, scientists develop nanomaterial from seaweed

The nanomaterial obtained from seaweed has shown very high adsorption capacity for lead and chromium

Will centralised waste disposal work for Punjab?

Safe waste disposal is a big challenge for the national sanitation overdrive. Punjab has been experimenting with centralised systems to tackle …

Half the public places do not manage waste water and litter

A government survey of 16 states in India finds that 51% and 53% public spaces in hills and plains respectively have unhygienic surroundings

Trashing the ragpicker

The new rules for plastic waste management exclude the informal sector, key to their successful implementation

Moneyspinning "cashcows"

Initially born as the good samaritan environmentalist's brainchild, recycling now smacks of a lot of hard cash

What a waste

The government is yet to decide what stand to take on the international trade in recyclable waste as banning it completely will hit industry hard

Change is in the process

It is critical to lift veil of secrecy around use of refuse-derived fuel in cement plants

Discussions with cement companies over co-processing RDF shows logistical issues plaguing its adoption

New plastic waste management rules leave out vital points

One aspect that was not dealt with was the informal sector of waste collection