Protestors kick up a stink over landfill in Peshawar
Angry residents have brought rubbish collection to a halt in northern Pakistan’s major city – in protest against waste being dumped …
"Swachh Bharat Mission echoes sterilisation campaign of 70s"
A new book exposes the lacunae in the way India manages its waste and recommends changes in practices and attitudes toward waste. Robin Jeffrey …
A clean country in the offing with new solid waste rules
The rules have gone into details of almost every stage involved in waste management; be it segregation at source, transportation of waste, …
भारत के लिए चुनौती बना ठोस कचरे का निपटान
भारत के शहरों के पास इस कचरे के निपटान के लिए कोई जगह या स…
Noida landfill protests: Confusion among officials troubles residents
While a two-year-old response to an RTI query said the site had been cancelled for the waste-to-energy project, a recent public notice called it …
Imphal struggles to handle its waste
After a seven-month-long protest, the city’s municipal corporation reached a solution which too isn’t permanent
Alappuzha gets recognised by UNEP for its solid waste management practices
This city in Kerala has adopted decentralised waste management and is pushing for 100 per cent segregation in all the 23 wards
Mr Modi, how about including garbage in your sanitation deadline?
India is the sixth largest garbage generating country, but has made provision to treat only 12.5 per cent of it
Zanzibar passes new regulation developed by CSE on solid waste management
The first of its kind in East Africa, the regulation will help Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago to tackle its burgeoning waste problem
The plastic trail of the Ganga from mountain to sea
Despite campaigns for cleanliness, India has ignored the massive proliferation of plastics along rivers like the Ganga, in towns and villages, …
Swachh Survekshan 2018 misses the clean mark
Majority of the top 50 cities recognised as clean by the Swachh Survekshan-2018 dump waste in poorly managed landfills and dumpsites
Delhi’s Solid Waste Management Bye-Laws focus on individual accountability
By emphasisng on segregating waste and making the generator accountable, the bye-laws have taken a stride towards improving waste management …
Nagaland Governor PB Acharya inaugurates Children's Science Congress
Solid waste management was the theme for a poster painting competition in the ongoing 105th edition of the Indian Science Congress
SC admonishes Centre for poor affidavit on solid waste management
The Supreme Court bench, which was hearing a PIL on Solid Waste Management Rules, came down heavily on the government counsel for not fully …
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 1-5)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
CAG report shows how Karnataka's solid waste management is in disarray
Faultlines at urban bodies: Lack of segregation, no identification of dump sites, absence of GPS
MoEF withdraws draft amendments to solid waste management rules
Activists say amendments involve use of expensive, regressive and untested technologies for waste disposal
Court stays proposed amendments to solid waste management rules
Petition before Karnataka High Court says amendments mooted by environment ministry are regressive, promote waste incineration
World Bank alarm on growing garbage burden
First-of-its-kind report projects exponential increase in municipal solid waste; questions reliability of available data and waste disposal methods
Bareilly civic body to pay for unlawful dumping of city garbage
National Green Tribunal invokes 'polluter pays' principle while imposing penalty to restore dump site
NGT orders continuous inspection of Okhla incinerator
Municipal authorities asked to implement segregation of municipal solid waste at source
Rajasthan pollution board issues directives on waste disposal a second time
Municipal bodies deny receiving them
Municipal solid waste rules amendments: MoEF asked to formulate new draft
Karnataka high court has directed ministry to consider all objections filed against the proposed amendments
Municipalities get thumbs down on solid waste management
Study by a non-profit says guidelines on including informal sector in waste management are being ignored
Okhla waste-to-energy plant safe: Jayanthi Natarajan
Activists, residents contest the statement; say India has no standards on emissions from incinerators