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 …
Digitalising waste management can make Indian cities & towns cleaner, more sustainable
Digital tools in waste management will help cities identify recycling trends of different dry waste categories, among other things
How Indigenous cultural practices can improve waste management in communities
Applying cultural practices is not common among community members because of the impacts of colonisation
Why it’s important to remediate Dar es Salaam’s Vingunguti dumpsite
Some 20 years after its closure, Vingunguti dumpsite continues to cause huge environmental and health hazards
GOBAR-Dhan: Scheme announced in budget a welcome step, but challenges ahead
Biogas can be purified and upgraded up to 98 per cent of purity to make it suitable to be used as a green fuel for transportation or filling of …
As told to Parliament (July 24, 2023): First phase of cheetah reintroduction project to cost Rs 91.65 crore, says minister
All that was discussed in the House through the day
SC admonishes Centre for poor affidavit on solid waste management
The Supreme Court bench, which was hearing a PIL on Solid Waste Management Rules, came down heavily on the government counsel for not fully …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 25, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Time to address Delhi’s rising challenge of legacy waste: If not now, when?
If the current trend of dumping fresh waste continues, Delhi will have to deal with an additional 1 crore tonnes of waste in another 5 years,…
States commit to waste segregation at source, but decentralisation not yet a priority
Decentralised solutions will cut transportation costs and make households and institutions part of the solution
CSE releases first-of-a-kind study on waste management in India
Municipalities across the country have been urged to place segregation at the heart of waste management system
Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants
Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose
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 …
Kochi: Brahmapuram fire exposes outdated waste management practices in Kerala cities
In Brahmapuram, in all probability, the blaze broke out from thick layers of dry plastic waste heaped for several years
Swachh Survekshan 2017 results on May 4; government says signs are ‘encouraging’
Besides covering larger number of cities and towns, this year’s survey also gives more importance to citizen feedback
Supreme Court okays Agra waste-energy plant; will that make the city cleaner
The city administration is looking forward to the technology, but with limited understanding of it; the recycling infrastructure remains severely …
COVID-19: Disposing biomedical waste Bengal’s challenge at hand
The state is yet to follow CPCB guidelines on collection of biomedical waste of quarantined people
Why Ghaziabad’s waste management is in the dumps
The city is still grappling with source segregation, door-to-door collection, waste treatment and processing and on-site organic waste management
Closure of community bin area in Delhi deals blow to waste pickers
The informal waste recyclers in Connaught Place also segregated the waste collected. They extracted recyclables from waste and sold it
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 8, 2020)
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
NGT’s Rs 3,800 crore fine on Telangana is the biggest one yet over waste disposal
West Bengal government was fined Rs 3,000 crore in September 2022
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 1-5)
Where will segregated waste go? Cities are clueless
A country-wide waste segregation campaign also needs to be backed up by a plan for treatment and processing