Zero Waste Cities Challenge: Guwahati has 2 winners for work on waste models
Only a fraction of waste generated in Guwahati is recycled; the remaining ends up at dumpsites or is littered around
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 14, 2022)
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: Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste miracle town
Japan’s first municipality to make a ‘zero waste declaration’, the town is well on its way to becoming fully zero-waste by 2020
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 4, 2019)
Next gen toilets
Bacteria from Antarctica could help free India of the problems caused by open defecation
Waste pays
Minimising the production of waste in industries saves raw material and, because it reduces the quantity of pollutants, lowers the cost of …
Water treatment need not cost the earth
Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high-tech water treatment systems instead of low-cost, low-tech water treatment …
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
It is critical to view antimicrobial resistance through a multi-dimensional lens
Reducing pollution from the pharmaceutical, agricultural and healthcare sectors is needed to reduce the emergence, transmission and spread of …
Textile units in Rajasthan’s Bhituja Industrial Area continue to pollute groundwater, Luni river: NGT panel
The area’s common effluent treatment plant was unfit to treat the effluents from the bleaching units
Challenges for Anil Madhav Dave, India’s new environment minister
Dave inherits a ministry that is being criticised for diluting environmental laws to facilitate quick industrial growth
Time to address Delhi’s rising challenge of legacy waste: If not now, when?
If the current trend of dumping fresh waste continues, Delhi will have to deal with an additional 1 crore tonnes of waste in another 5 years,…
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)
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 …
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
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 29, 2019)
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 25-29)
Nothing goes waste
The biological method of hospital waste management, which helps reclaim degraded land and cultivate medicinal plants, may be the best alternative …
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)
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
Treating waste
Participants at a recently-held workshop stressed the need for proper treatment of hospital wastes
