Dangerous business

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 4, 2019)

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

Local authorities in Delhi can use imaginative by-laws to clean up the city

Households must be rewarded on segregating waste and collectors, both formal and informal, should be trained

Bengaluru's burning issue

The city finally wakes up to waste management, but bumbles into incineration plants

Clean-up plan for Union Carbide waste in Bhopal raises concern

No more hospitals

Wasted wealth

Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure

A waste management model for small towns

Vengurla is one of the only towns in India which generates revenue from its waste

Mumbai's solid waste management plans expensive, dangerous

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

Growing dissent against ‘successful’ economic growth model

A new de-globalising world order means that to find equitable and affordable growth, we need to challenge the polluted model that has pushed us …

Swachh Survekshan 2017 encouraging unsustainable approaches for waste management: CSE

Says the survey should give preference to waste segregation and recycle and reuse over centralised approaches like landfill and waste-to-energy plants

Patronising dirty technology

Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur

Ghazipur, Delhi: Just why has this landfill been simmering for so long

The reality is that all kinds of waste is being dumped at landfill sites since the system of segregation and recycling is not in place. This …

Delhi’s solid waste: a systemic failure

Landfill sites in Delhi had exceeded their capacity way back in 2008 and most of these sites have contaminated groundwater in and around their …

Bottled water costs us the earth

Romania rejects garbage from Italy

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

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

Lives laid waste

Clay the solution for safe disposal of biomedical waste, say IIT-G scientists 

A 99.6% reduction of viral contamination & very low diffusion rates were observed using compacted clays like bentonite and kaolin

San Francisco bans bottled water

Garbage is about recycling

It is time we accepted that each household is a waste generator

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 10, 2022)

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

Is Rs 25 lakh compensation enough for Okhla waste-to-energy plant?

The facility has been allegedly emitting various pollutants for years including carcinogens such as furans and dioxins

India’s challenges in waste management

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