Explainer: why we should be turning waste into fuel

Recycling has been the main approach for recovering resources and reducing landfill over the past 20 years, but a lot more needs to be done

Did you know about public toilets that turn urine into electricity?

The researchers plan to test these urinals in India or in some regions of Africa, especially at refugee camps

Okhla waste-energy plant gets show cause notice

The Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has been given 15 days to respond why they defied the terms of the Environment Clearance

Implementation of waste management laws remains woefully inadequate: Experts

Waste management experts had gathered at the launch of the book State of Waste in India

Sugar industry waste turned into next-generation battery material

The methodology developed can be used for wastewaters generated by other polluting industries like tanneries

Self-powered devices to become a reality soon

Researchers from India have built a nanoenergy harvester that can convert ambient energy to electricity

Energy from the dead

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Do small cities need waste-to-energy plants?

The fundamental issue with waste management in India is that it is always someone else’s problem

Harvesting ambient energy with fish scales

Researchers say that the technology has enormous potential in electronic gadgets and health-care monitoring

Burning bright in Nepal

The economic blockade by the Madhesi community has inadvertently spruced up demand for biogas plants in Nepal

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

Waste and sanitation in news on April 17

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around water and sanitation

500 litres of water enough for this bio-toilet to serve a family of five for 15 years

Researchers from IIT-Kharagpur develop a bio-toilet that recycles water and turns waste to energy

Energy Democracy: Where ‘two Indias’ meet

India needs a people-centric process towards de-centralising power and gaining control of renewable energy production, distribution and usage

Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies

Australians send about 4 million tonnes of food waste to landfill each year – but what if we could use it for other purposes?

What Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 should be like?

While the mission got people talking about sanitation and cleanliness, its implementation needs a lot of work

Trash-fired power plants wasted in India

Controversy mars India's ambitious target of generating 800 MW of energy by burning waste. Ironically, the country does not even generate …

Mall stays cool with waste

Exhaust gas from generators fuels air conditioners

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

Africa's first grid-connected biogas plant makes energy affordable, cuts carbon emissions

The biogas plant in Kenya is converting waste into biogas to provide energy

Slums in Kenya turning human excreta into energy, fertiliser

Only 30 per cent of people in Kenya have access to safe sanitation and more than six million people defecate in the open

Matheran wastes cooking gas

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 8, 2019)

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

Sun in a box: Excess renewable energy can now be stored more efficiently

MIT engineers have designed a concept that can store excess energy in the form of heat and supply it back to the grid when need be

Swachh Bharat Mission yet to create systems that support waste segregation, processing

The Swachh Bharat Mission Urban completes three years on October 2, 2017, but has the mission gone beyond brooms and sticks? How far country has …