Don’t touch

Half the toys tested have unsafe phthalate levels

A free ride

India and China, largest toy producer, do not regulate phthalates  

Double Standards

Safety regulations are for imported toys only  

What is a good toy?

Sudarshan Khanna, former Professor of design at National Institute of Design explains the process of developing a toy, giving examples of his …

Making of a toy

On skype with Barry Matthew Kudrowitz, an instructor on toy design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Beginning with his favourite, …

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone

Tourists, not trash

How a popular tourist destination in Sikkim became the first village in India to ban bottled water and manage the trash left behind by tourists, …

Shanghai-ed

The road ahead

Jute, coir and waste material are set to make rural roads economic and eco-friendly

Bottled water costs us the earth

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