Don't let it go waste

Manage e-waste the EU way

Proposed legislation makes producers responsible for recycling

Disposal of endosulfan begins

Nearly 1,400 litres of the banned pesticide found in Kasaragod godowns

Unavoidable reality

It’s time to think up novel ways to manage waste

Recycling the bin

Several initiatives are demonstrating how the informal e-waste recycling sector can be formalised

Proposal to airlift Bhopal waste to Germany in jeopardy

GIZ says its reputation at stake after details of proposal were leaked in German media

Trade secrets

Regulator’s failure in radiation mishap

Atomic energy board forgot gamma irradiators purchased before 1983  

India’s challenges in waste management

The key to efficient waste management is to ensure segregation source and resource recovery

Light on mercury

Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light

Unorganized players give e-bike a bad name

For a growing section of riders, e-bikes are a cool way out of increasing fuel costs. Naveen Munjal’s firm Hero Electric leads India’…

A year in the life of a law

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

Desperately seeking waste

High time to address occupational hazards of waste pickers

Informal waste sector in India carry out most labour-intensive and least rewarding job; most work and live in hazardous conditions with no …

Subterranean Leak

The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory

Inaction in waste management leading to huge economic loss

Huge investment needed to clean billions of tonnes of waste that has been dumped across the world

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 7, 2022)

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

In court

Tata Motors owns up chlorine leak in Jamshedpur

Chemical cowboys

Bhopal’s toxic links with Indore

Government notifies new solid waste management rules

These will replace the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, which have been in place for the past 16 years  

Trick or treat?

Countries approach communities to say yes to nuclear disposal site near them

Breakthrough in impasse over toxic export ban

Parties take a step forward to make it easy to enforce Basel Ban Amendment