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)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
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
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
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 …
An Arunachal Pradesh town has swapped its water pollution problem for air pollution
Residents take to burning waste after orders to not dump it in Kameng river; facility to handle waste incomplete due to lack of funds
Recommendations on solid waste management: How govt action falls short
The standing committee on urban development made 37 recommendations, 14 of which were accepted by the Union government
Towards circular economy: What to do with legacy waste in India
Bioremediation to treat legacy waste and reclaim old dumpsites may not always work; the composition of the waste also matters
A trashed valley: Kashmir needs to segregate its waste at source
Despite clear regulations and court interventions, local governments continue to ignore Kashmir’s municipal solid waste crisis
Recycling the bin
Several initiatives are demonstrating how the informal e-waste recycling sector can be formalised
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
NGT orders closure of industrial units in Bellandur Lake area
No industry would be allowed to operate in the lake area unless effluent emissions are under permissible limits. Industries found violating the …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 13, 2020)
A clean country in the offing with new solid waste rules
The rules have gone into details of almost every stage involved in waste management; be it segregation at source, transportation of waste, …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 17, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 16, 2020)
MoEF withdraws draft amendments to solid waste management rules
Activists say amendments involve use of expensive, regressive and untested technologies for waste disposal
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
Protests mar Bengaluru consultation on draft solid waste rules
Programme called off after activists and civil society groups term the consultation illegal and unconstitutional
Delhi plans to remediate Okhla landfill by end of 2023. How will it do this?
CSE team found fresh waste continues to be disposed of at site; critical to use waste fractions recovered from landfill safely