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Protesters against Meta Strips in Goa threaten a civil disobedience movement

US shipping out 'spoils' of terror

Rubble from World Trade Center arrives in India to a hostile reception by environmentalists

Out of the box

Outer packaging of daily-need products serves no purpose, adds to country’s waste disposal woes

Redemption from litter

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

Carry the burden

Of your waste, the government needs to tell the plastic industry. Other countries have done so. At times, to developing nations' detriment. …

Whose waste is it?

Producers are shifting their plastic recovery responsibility to other companies

Lessons from Bellandur: Governments should allocate more resources to monitor, protect lakes

They should focus on judicial utilisation of the water census reports and identify plans to restore the encroached and lost water bodies

Moving beyond organics: Understanding the place and space of brown cotton

We need to broaden our search beyond organics to understand other cotton options that are eco-friendly, if cotton is to retain a place as a …

Union Budget 2022-23: Customs exemption extension on steel scrap will bring temporary relief

It would have been good to see the Centre taking concrete steps to improve domestic scrap availability

Singapore’s journey from a water scarce to a water secure nation

Singapore has tapped every opportunity to collect, treat, reuse and produce necessary water resources

Report on e-waste management places 5 companies in the red

Toxic Link assesses companies on extended producer responsibility over handling and recycling e-waste  

Centre proposes dilution of e-waste collection targets for industries

New Draft Notification on E-waste plans to relax the Extended Producer Responsibility of the industries

China bans foreign waste – but what will happen to the world's recycling?

The world's largest recyclable materials importer will leave other countries searching for alternative waste management solutions

Holes in the pipeline!

Water supply in urban areas is met partly by public systems and partly, by the private sector

California looks at building one of world's largest recycled water programmes

Drought has put burden on traditional sources of drinking water and water managers are looking at expanding recycling systems to increase supply

No room for recycling

Give waste pickers their due

Spoilt for choice

Are cheap food prices reason to cheer?

Promising bacteria

Microorganisms prove effective in recycling old tyres stockpiled in landfill areas

‘Wrap, trap, zap’: New strategy to kill antibiotic resistant bugs in wastewater

Microspheres wrapped in graphene oxide help destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic-resistant genes in wastewater plants

Landfills scrapped in UK

Come 2004, 90 per cent of landfills will be shut down in the UK. The step is being taken in the wake of a recent EU directive that has clamped …

Supreme Court seeks status report on hazardous waste directives

The directives were issued by a monitoring committee appointed by the court on October 14, 2003

Subverting a basic human right

A draft water policy proposes to make water an economic good

Passing the muck

Vehicle manufacturers conveniently outsource most of their polluting processes

Swamped

The convoluted laws of the country fail to tackle the menace caused by the exponentially growing and powerful plastic industry in India

Clean Thiruvananthapuram, but dirty Villappilsala

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala was once known as the cleanest city in India. Today, it is littered with garbage