Water treatment need not cost the earth

Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high-tech water treatment systems instead of low-cost, low-tech water treatment …

Feed it to the earthworm

That is what Lata Srikhande, a Pune housewife, did to solve her domestic waste disposal problems. Now her neighbourhood is following suit

Shape of things to come

A novel method to convert plastic bags into new shapes could help minimise their adverse effects on our environment

"The West now understands that waste can be a resource"

Sweden's UNO WINBLAD was not a sanitation engineer but had trained as an architect in London in the late '50s. Those were the days of mounting …

Emerging hazard: Radioactive contamination increasingly found in scraps for recycling, says UN body

Radioactive contaminated metal, if used to manufacture household goods, could pose a potential health problem to unsuspecting consumers: …

Stringent step

Costly garbage

Recycled paper up on global popularity chart

Computer for roads

Reducing plastic threat

Green industry

New strategy adopted

No pulp fiction

An ecofriendly process to convert paper mill waste into hydrogen

Packaged afresh

Limit upheld

The current attention-grab

Scrap the waste

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 …

Glass syringes vs disposable needles

The Haryana government's recent decision to promote glass syringes is in the midst of a storm. It has, in fact, created clear factions; one that …

Rubbish for Remain or Bins for Brexit? How the EU affects your garbage

There is a chance that the average Briton might have to pay more for his or her bendy banana skins to be picked up if the UK does leave the EU

Tubelights give more than light to labs

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

Our Commonwealth

Toxic gardens

Plastic problem

A ban on recycled plastic in Delhi will have little effect

Treating effluents