Nuance and law

The Supreme Court’s ill-timed order on a case of municipal solid waste that is affecting construction workers illustrates how Indian courts …

No plastic ban: What it means for India?

Here are a few suggestions on how the country can handle the plastic menace

Supreme Court asks states to clean up their act

The apex court imposes penalty on states and union territories for failing to comply with its orders regarding solid waste management

States not complying with NGT orders to manage waste: CPCB

Lack a holistic way to manage waste and information gap were the main shortcomings

How Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants are way off the mark

The recent uproar against the Okhla plant highlights how none of three in the Capital is effectively doing what they are supposed to

CSE Clean City Award: Mysuru is one of the best solid waste managers in India

Mysuru boasts of door-to-door garbage-collection, segregation and recycling, making it one of the best managers of municipal solid waste. In 2016,…

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 22, 2019)

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

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (September 9-13)

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

Delhi’s Solid Waste Management Bye-Laws focus on individual accountability

By emphasisng on segregating waste and making the generator accountable, the bye-laws have taken a stride towards improving waste management …

Chandigarh terminates Jaypee’s contract for processing city’s waste

Tussle over payment of garbage processing fee led Municipal Corporation to sever ties with Jaypee Group, which ‘pioneered’ garbage …

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  

Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants

Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose

Bengaluru's burning issue

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

War over waste

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

No land for best option: composting

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, does not have a municipal waste-treatment facility. Its only plant to treat solid waste, located …

Okhla waste to energy plant is spewing lead, other toxins into air, say residents

Air samples tested by independent agency under citizens monitoring programme

Drowning in its own rubbish

For Thiruvananthapuram, the only way to manage waste is by flouting rules

Kicking up a stink

Waste pickers in Pune force corporates and the municipality to address safe disposal of sanitary napkins

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …