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Manual scavenging: A stinking legacy of suffocation and stigma

Every year, hundreds of manual scavengers die, asphyxiated by poisonous gases

Draft extended producer responsibility policy: How gaps in achieving fundamental goals can be closed

The draft incorporates important objectives but leaves out some fundamental ones

Absence of guidelines leaves organic waste management at the mercy of entrepreneurs

Government must identify this line before more instant composters churn out ash

Recycling colonialism

'Scrap' the factory

Doubts over eco-friendly nature of export-oriented plant

Wanted: Yamuna counsel

Muddied water floods North Goa

Unplanned mining blamed for turning monsoon rains into sludge

Loo blues: Count defunct toilets before building more

Going surgical on plastics in Rwanda

This African country has set an example on how to strictly enforce plastic-related laws

Squirrels now use plastic to build their nests

In urban areas, trees are scarce but plastic material is not

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Network

Waste for roads

Solid wastes could soon be used for laying roads

A sector that wants space

Two dead and many questions

Fires at Alang shipbreaking yard are frequent, accidents inevitable

A year in the life of a law

An assessment of what ails the implementation of e-waste rules

Desperately seeking waste

...and not for garbage

Hey, let’s twist

Arm-twisted nanotubes to dispose of nuclear waste

The Philippines

Bricks, pavers from construction debris

Construction waste recycled to make bricks and pavers

This award winning waste management plant in Himachal’s Palampur has turned into a garbage hill

Open disposal of garbage here violates environmental norms

Not yet clean

Swachh Bharat Mission completes two years, but India is far from achieving its goal.

No Garbage