Rethinking waste management: Improving governance in India’s North East

Nearly 85% of the waste in the North East is unceremoniously dumped without processing and treatment  

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 20-24)

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

Opportunity waste

A senior technical manager says there is a lot of money to be made in management of industrial waste

Book review: Garbage Wars: The Struggle For Environmental Justice By David Naguib Pellow

Sociologist David Naguib Pellow has come out with an engrossing account of Chicago from the perspective of what surrounds us all: garbage. It is …

Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

Reeds to the rescue

An ecofriendly way of treating polluted wastewater holds promise for rural India

Sifting success

Indian refinery ready to become a zero effluent discharge plant

Solar treatment

Disinfects medical waste in an ecofriendly way

Holy manure

Temple offerings in Mumbai make for good compost

Paradigm shift in transborder plastic waste trade

Agreement reached at 14th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention to make global trade in plastic scrap more transparent and better regulated

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 25-29)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 29, 2019)

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

Nothing goes waste

The biological method of hospital waste management, which helps reclaim degraded land and cultivate medicinal plants, may be the best alternative …

Chromium digesters

Bacteria can absorb the toxic chemical

Reusing wastewater

A new technology to remove chloroform from the wastewater of drug plants

Declared dead

Karnataka hospitals face closure for not treating waste

New technique developed to make biodiesel cleaner

Scientists have developed a cost-effective strategy to convert crude glycerol, a by-product of manufacturing biodiesel, into a green fuel

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 …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2019)

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

Waste pays

Minimising the production of waste in industries saves raw material and, because it reduces the quantity of pollutants, lowers the cost of …

Treating waste

Participants at a recently-held workshop stressed the need for proper treatment of hospital wastes

Sorting e-waste

European Parliament to make producers responsible for e-waste

Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads

Dirty states

Only five states generate more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater in India as they lack treatment facilities, says a recent study

Costs and benefits of India's waste disposal options

Urban India produces 120,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste each day. Businesses want to burn this garbage to produce electricity, using …