Bengaluru's burning issue
The city finally wakes up to waste management, but bumbles into incineration plants
No room for recycling
Give waste pickers their due
Garbage: Your Problem
Several non-gonernmental organisations are showing the way to handle this problem
Dumping worries
Pune is clean
Trash to cash
Paper mill recycles cartons, makes tissue paper, furniture
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 29, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
As told to Parliament (July 29, 2021): Some 927,606 children in India are ‘severely acute malnourished’
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Is the ODF status for Kanpur a myth?
From shortage of toilets to age-old habits, Kanpur throws up a contradictory picture
Hymen doesn’t stand in the way of intercourse, but menstrual hygiene
Let’s debunk a myth that keeps women from using menstrual cups
Waste in news on May 3
A round-up of what's new in waste and sanitation
Agra’s decentralised garbage processing plants for bulk waste generators can be a game changer
Municipality established three decentralised waste management plants sustainably managing organic waste generated from 2,000 bulk waste generators
Lax global laws let the rich junk polluting vehicles in low-income nations
Rich nations are dumping their old, used and close-to-being-scrapped vehicles in low-income vehicle importing countries of Africa and South Asia …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 7, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Ten zero-waste cities: How Capannori inspired other European municipalities on zero waste
Taking a proactive, holistic approach and involving residents in all stages of policy development were key elements that led the Italian …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 2, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 22, 2022)
Why Guwahati is a good bet for a zero - waste challenge
Only a fraction of waste generated in Guwahati is recycled; the remaining ends up at dumpsites or is littered around
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 …
Farm waste, a significant source of antimicrobial resistance
Current manure treatment technologies not enough to reduce entry of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes into the environment, says a study
About 23 per cent girls drop out of school on reaching puberty
The report emphasises the need to normalise menstruation by looking at behaviour, infrastructure, politics and perception
Balaghat: How to decentralise waste management in a small city
Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh has shown the way for small cities to adopt sustainable decentralised waste management practices. The town is pushing …
Why Panaji should not give up on decentralised waste management
The City Corporation of Panaji wants to discontinue the decentralised waste management system that helped it become a bin-free city
In Parliament on March 9, 2017
From illegal mining, Ganga's pollutant and their regulation, to the disposal of solid waste, many environment-related issues were raised in the …
How Sweden got out of the garbage dumps
Less than one per cent of garbage goes to landfill; energy from waste powers public transport, heats homes