Protests mar Bengaluru consultation on draft solid waste rules

Programme called off after activists and civil society groups term the consultation illegal and unconstitutional

Bengaluru's trash talk

City administration makes fresh promises to get an extension to dump its waste at Mandur village. But will the five-month breather be enough for …

NGT raps civic bodies, Delhi Metro for lying on cleaning debris from Yamuna banks

Wants fresh affidavits by May 7

NGT judgement on Okhla waste plant: no lessons learned

National Green Tribunal has, once again, made clear that it advocates a centralised system for waste processing which may not serve a long-term …

Court stays proposed amendments to solid waste management rules

Petition before Karnataka High Court says amendments mooted by environment ministry are regressive, promote waste incineration

World Bank alarm on growing garbage burden

First-of-its-kind report projects exponential increase in municipal solid waste; questions reliability of available data and waste disposal methods

Bareilly civic body to pay for unlawful dumping of city garbage

National Green Tribunal invokes 'polluter pays' principle while imposing penalty to restore dump site

NGT orders continuous inspection of Okhla incinerator

Municipal authorities asked to implement segregation of municipal solid waste at source

Rajasthan pollution board issues directives on waste disposal a second time

Municipal bodies deny receiving them

Municipal solid waste rules amendments: MoEF asked to formulate new draft

Karnataka high court has directed ministry to consider all objections filed against the proposed amendments

Municipalities get thumbs down on solid waste management

Study by a non-profit says guidelines on including informal sector in waste management are being ignored

Bengaluru's burning issue

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

Okhla waste-to-energy plant safe: Jayanthi Natarajan

Activists, residents contest the statement; say India has no standards on emissions from incinerators

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

Countries launch measures to curb greenhouse gases more potent than CO2

A five-step action plan will target pollutants like methane and black carbon

Kicking up a stink

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

BJP's promise of energy from waste heats up Delhi civic polls

Okhla residents accuse BJP and Congress of trying to poison people by promoting waste incineration to generate electricity

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 …