Master of all

Leonardo da Vinci was the creator of natural plastic

Plastic avenue

Technologies can help manage waste as well as make hardy roads

Coming to grips with survival

Moulded plastic handles enable the farmers of the Tahirpur leprosy colony in Delhi to harvest high yields

Adieu polybags

With a bucket and a plastic bag

An easy and public way to monitor air pollution that's also cheap in India

Plastic purge

Chittaranjan township sports a new look as its residents say no to plastic carrybags

The see-saw approach

The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more …

A few good men

Seven months of hard work and sheer dedication has made Pithoragarh free from polythene bags

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 …

The great Pacific garbage patch

Wasteful profits

From barefoot ragpickers to rich kabariwallahs moving about in cars, the country's waste recycling industry caters to countless Indians.An …

Living in Hell

Residents of Peera Garhi, a village in outer Delhi, are having to deal with a nightmare. A highly polluting plastics industry is to blame

Beyond the odds

Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their 'environmental awareness' campaign

In the pay of plastics

India's biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West's fashion for unsustainable living

Partial ban

New rules ban metalised plastic only in tobacco sachets

Plastic Unlimited

New rules to restrict the use of plastic in India may end up promoting the polymer industry

Redemption from litter

Uttarakhand non-profits have taken responsibility for clearing tourists’ plastic waste

Fall of golden fibre

An inefficient industry is marring prospects of jute, paving way for plastics

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

A mixed bag

The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? Pinaki Roy on the ban's efficacy

Just dump it

Acids of arsenic. Organo-mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of …

Bagful of doubts

India has no fool-proof test for biodegradable plastic

Ailing systems

Hospital waste management suffers from poor understanding and even poorer implementation

Industrial discharge: seaward ho!

As rivers spill over, the sea becomes the new dumping destination in coastal Gujarat

Centre bans gutkha

Activists, health experts are sceptical; pin hope on Supreme Court’s verdict on smokeless tobacco