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New Battery Waste Management Rules make producers accountable for recycling

But they need to be more holistic in design to enable sustainability standards 

The trash piles up

With Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands insisting on high recycling targets, an agreement on waste packaging among European Community members …

E-waste recycling hub: Moradabad

Rudimentary and risky ways of recycling cut costs, offer the formal sector tough competition  

Waste not, want not

Waste generated in Guwahati will now be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity

Winning by default

Automakers score high on compliance. Only because the regulations are too lax

Hope or hype?

Guarded optimism greets new biomedical waste treatment facility near Kanpur

Meerut's bane...

HC takes note of hospital waste recycling racket

Offloaded

Responsibility to dispose Mumbai's construction waste

Manage e-waste the EU way

Proposed legislation makes producers responsible for recycling

It’s a bad synthetic world

On current technology green plastics don’t inspire confidence  

Depolluting Dal

They are not concerned about the troubles in the valley. Their main concern is to save Dal lake from death

Lightly treads the tourist

Nepal's Annapurna Conservation Area Project has made tremendous strides in pursuit of eco-tourism. The key is empowering local people

Ten zero-waste cities: What makes Penang stand out in waste recycling?

It has the highest recycling rate in Malaysia at 43 per cent

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 14, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Plastic-free planet: Recycling increases toxicity of plastics, warns Greenpeace study

Plastics contain more than 13,000 chemicals and 3,200 of them known to be hazardous to human health

Wastewater resource, not liability: Moving towards circular economy

If recovered fully from wastewater, there would be a reduction in global demand for nutrients in agriculture  

Recycling e-waste: ‘CPCB’s competence must be raised’

Swedish academic Thomas Lindhqvist, who introduced extended producer responsibility, says India doesn’t need better recycling rules, but …

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

As solar power booms, businesses are exploring ways to ensure valuable components don’t end up in landfills

World at a loss as China bans import of plastic waste

In 2017, China imported 7.3 million metric tonnes of waste, including metal, plastics and paper among other waste materials

Recycling is the answer to India’s water woes

Frankfurt recycles a drop of water eight times before it reaches the sea, as compared to zero in India

Mere paperwork

The state government of Goa acknowledges that a green law passed in 1996 is toothless

Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

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Maharashtra acts

Polybags out, system suspect