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

Policy enablers needed to strengthen India’s Bio-CNG sector

In Indore, some 400 buses ply on the Bio-CNG generated from municipal solid waste

Matheran wastes cooking gas

Methane from Indian dumpsites — a missed opportunity & potential climate pollutant

Methane emissions from MSW landfills represent a lost opportunity to capture, recover and use a significant energy resource

Turning trash to treasure: This woman-led waste management model in Goa is a success story

Goa has successfully transformed a towering landfill into an integrated solid waste management facility

World Photography Day: India’s year through DTE’s lens

From COVID-19 hollowing out lives and livelihoods to farmers agitating on Delhi borders undeterred to climate change leaving footprints all over, …

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

Are combustibles derived from legacy waste dumpsites opportunity or challenge?

It is imperative to create an enabling ecosystem for increasing the gainful utilisation of refused derived fuel by industries

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

CSE commits to strengthen solid waste management in Tanzania at 2nd pan-Africa workshop

CSE and NEMC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the waste management in Tanzania

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 …

Britain's 'green' car rally

Toilet training

Next generation clean fuel

Why it’s important to remediate Dar es Salaam’s Vingunguti dumpsite

Some 20 years after its closure, Vingunguti dumpsite continues to cause huge environmental and health hazards

Why Jaipur’s Hingonia biogas plant has emerged as a model for waste-to-energy facilities

Infrastructure required for setting up biogas plant is available in India; finanacial support & proper waste management can help the industry grow

As told to Parliament (December 7, 2021): Thousands of posts vacant at India’s rural health centres

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Napier grass: A game-changer in bio-CNG production

With an energy output-to-input ratio of approximately 25:1, it emerges as one of the most promising energy crop

The waste-to-energy plant violates emission norms by not using environment-friendly technologies

Since 2009, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar, a residential colony in Delhi, have been fighting against a waste-to-energy plant operated by Jindal …

Net-zero emission means doubling energy supply from renewables

World currently depends on 25 per cent of low-emission sources for its energy requirements

GOBAR-Dhan: CSE’s roadmap can address the challenges faced by Bio-CNG in India

CSE worked closely with the Ministry of Jal Shakti & identified the opportunities that can be tapped to realise the potential of organic …

Chandigarh terminates Jaypee’s contract for processing city’s waste

Tussle over payment of garbage processing fee led Municipal Corporation to sever ties with Jaypee Group, which ‘pioneered’ garbage …

Supreme Court okays Agra waste-energy plant; will that make the city cleaner

The city administration is looking forward to the technology, but with limited understanding of it; the recycling infrastructure remains severely …