Trash to cash

Paper mill recycles cartons, makes tissue paper, furniture

Just use it

The fibre of the banana tree is a sustainable resource to manufacture paper

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

The paper society

Japan's trashbins give it back half the paper it uses and reuses

Writing off the world's forests

As the global demand for paper rockets, forests in the Asia-Pacific are being targeted for paper plantations

Bamboo under siege

Gadchiroli villages relinquish forest rights to Ballarpur paper mill

Crank it up

Sugar mills in India are doubling up as power generators by burning crushed sugarcane or bagasse. But with the price of bagasse rising, their …

Planters devils?

The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire

Useful excreta

A Sri Lankan company uses elephant dung to make paper and profits

Resource war India after 2020

If the developing world today is the locus of climate change  mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …

Paper chase

PAPER is important, but so are forests. The proposal of the ministry for environment and forests to allow the paper industry to establish …

Planters devils?

The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire

No Kodak moments any more

Greening the industry

The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud CSE efforts …

A fair hearing

On World Environment Day, the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) put out an advertisement propagating plastic as the alternative to the …

Paper question

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland

Bamboo rising

Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …

Private plantations urged on forest land

After supporting India's forestry programmes for almost two decades, the World Bank now is moving toward arrogating to itself governance of the …

Making polluters pay

Despite bureaucratic hurdles, a non-governmental organisation hope to bring to book an erring paper mill in Punjab

Backyard mess

Wastepaper is abundantly available in India. Yet the Indian paper industry depends heavily on imports. MONALI ZEYA HAZRA finds out why

On paper

The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was conceived as a means to track the environmental performance of India'…

Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

Handmade paper industry flourishes in Latur

When you hear about Latur, you remember earthquakes, drought, and disaster. But making beauty out of ashes is what the Kalpakala Industry …

Mautak will flower

In 2006-2007, a bamboo species will flower over vast swathes of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam. When bamboo flowers, it dies; usually a famine follows.…

Enter -The green rating project

Indian industry is huge. But most environmentalists believe it has done little to reduce pollution, which will only rise as the economy grows. …