Nothing goes waste

The biological method of hospital waste management, which helps reclaim degraded land and cultivate medicinal plants, may be the best alternative …

Wasting Away

Despite the deadline for hospitals to set up bio-medical waste disposal methods having expired, nothing has changed

Ailing systems

Hospital waste management suffers from poor understanding and even poorer implementation

Interstate dirty dumpers

Industrial units illegally dump hazardous waste in remote fields, often crossing state borders, to dodge the law and cut costs. ravleen kaur …

Single window dumpyard

India wants global waste. So it gets what it wants  

Lavasa’s journey downhill

Rules were bent to concentrate development in the valley, lakefront

INDIA

Hazardous care

Hot achievement

Staging a comeback

The old glass syringe is back in Calcutta's government hospitals

Remedial resolve

Novel medical waste treatment facility in Chennai

Tamil Nadu will soon have its first centralised biomedical waste treatment facility. The unit is being set up in Chennai by the Hyderabad-based G …

Good riddance

Waste management

Right to dump

Dealing with waste

Laws to regulate disposal of hospital wastes have been

Treating hospital waste

In the dumps

Delhi hospitals continue to flout biomedical waste management norms

Come 2005

Or, why mohfw should be worried

Paradise lost

Glass syringes vs disposable needles

The Haryana government's recent decision to promote glass syringes is in the midst of a storm. It has, in fact, created clear factions; one that …

Tokyo

AIDS project

BAN ON DUMPING

South Africa