Was Goa’s burning Sonsoddo landfill a stunt or something else?

Uncannily, the fire at the waste treatment plant came just a day before Malaysia announced it was giving plastic waste imports back to western nations

Divide and Conquer: waste segregation is the key

Waste segregation at source improves collection efficiency and leads to better processing of waste

Protestors kick up a stink over landfill in Peshawar

Angry residents have brought rubbish collection to a halt in northern Pakistan’s major city – in protest against waste being dumped …

Delhi plans to remediate Okhla landfill by end of 2023. How will it do this?

CSE team found fresh waste continues to be disposed of at site; critical to use waste fractions recovered from landfill safely

COVID-19: How bio-medical waste poses challenges to urban solid waste management system

With the potential onset of the third wave, it is important to prioritise a separate collection of infectious and highly infectious waste in …

Can an inventory help manage e-waste?

Better data on e-waste will help track the amount of e-waste generated, reduce e-waste, promote recycling and prevent illegal dumping and …

States commit to waste segregation at source, but decentralisation not yet a priority

Decentralised solutions will cut transportation costs and make households and institutions part of the solution

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 …

Ailing hospitals

A survey of hospitals in Delhi reveals the poor state of waste management

Maharashtra acts

Polybags out, system suspect

Towards circular economy: What to do with legacy waste in India

Bioremediation to treat legacy waste and reclaim old dumpsites may not always work; the composition of the waste also matters

Recycling the bin

Several initiatives are demonstrating how the informal e-waste recycling sector can be formalised

Taste for waste

Entrepreneurs now see business opportunity in waste paper. The raddiwala employed with start-ups can be summoned to home with the click of a …

Integral role of women in waste management

Having gender inclusion into waste management policymaking can lead to more comprehensive and inclusive solutions

Good riddance

Waste management

Manufacturers to recycle

Slow and unsteady

Just re-use it

Sri Lanka finds a way to re-use furniture waste

Municipal bye-laws are underutilised legal instrument for instituting sustainable solid waste management in cities

Municipal bye-laws’ agenda requires a lot more attention to ensure its use is universal across all ULBs

Most Indian villages do not have any waste management infrastructure: Study

With a changing consumer landscape, single-use, low-quality plastics are contributing to the growing waste problem in rural India

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

E-waste to increase 38% by 2030: Report

Most electronic waste around the world still not being collected and recycled properly: United Nations University

Better manage e-waste, improve working conditions for recyclers: ILO

The UN agency has called for urgent steps to promote investments in the sector to create “decent” working conditions

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 …