No land for best option: composting

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, does not have a municipal waste-treatment facility. Its only plant to treat solid waste, located …

CRPF for garbage trucks?

Kerala High Court suggests CRPF protection for garbage trucks dumping Thiruvanthapuram's waste in village

Andhra hospitals flout bio-medical rules

119 hospitals issued show cause notice by state pollution control board for violations

Liability sans facility

Draft rules ask health centres to ensure their waste is treated  

Drowning in its own rubbish

For Thiruvananthapuram, the only way to manage waste is by flouting rules

Stink in the leather belt

Calcutta Leather Complex has shifted from the heart of the city to the outskirts on Supreme Court order, but it fails to treat toxic effluent and …

Supreme Court orders incineration of Bhopal's toxic waste at non-functional treatment facility in Dhar district

Madhya Pradesh government and activists fighting for Bhopal gas victims to file review petition

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …