CSE Clean City Award: Mysuru is one of the best solid waste managers in India

Mysuru boasts of door-to-door garbage-collection, segregation and recycling, making it one of the best managers of municipal solid waste. In 2016,…

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 …

No room for recycling

Give waste pickers their due

Draft plastic waste rules: Why multi-layered plastic needs to be phased out

12 years since plastic waste rules, 2011, restricting the use of MLPs is off the charts

Dangerous business

Rules of e-dump

Loopholes in new rules for electronic waste make it difficult to regulate informal sector

Kicking up a stink

Waste pickers in Pune force corporates and the municipality to address safe disposal of sanitary napkins

Environmental racism

Waste not, want not

Waste generated in Guwahati will now be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity

Meerut's bane...

HC takes note of hospital waste recycling racket

Timarpur waste management company in Delhi set to revive plant

Timarpur waste management company in Delhi set to revive plant

It’s a bad synthetic world

On current technology green plastics don’t inspire confidence  

Glitter, not litter: These 10 cities show how to get rid of waste

Zero-waste is all about making surroundings clean, green & environmentally sustainable

Why a landfill and waste-to-energy plant in Delhi Ridge is a bad idea

A recent SC order approving a recommendation to set up a landfill and a Waste-to-Energy plant in Delhi Ridge is an ill-thought move

Climbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reach

Modern technology and international cooperation are key to ending the pileup of waste in this iconic setting

Microplastics are global travellers of pollution

Understanding how microplastics move in the environment can help us devise strategies to minimise their impact

Psychology of plastic use: How marketing, packaging and product design affect customer behaviour

Sustainability-focused behavioural shift necessary to reduce consumption of plastic

Upcycling cloth waste into high fashion through traditional Indian handloom

Large textile hubs in the country can produce up to 45,000 meters of fabric waste daily

Improved catalyst can speed up conversion of industrial biomass into biofuel

Pune researchers develop an environment-friendly way for the conversion

The predator

Toilet inside, defecation outside: Govt missing the mark?

Toilets are being constructed at a high rate, but their usage remains a problem

Fashion sans catwalk

Fashion>> Waste • Brazil

Imminent deluge

Asian countries risk becoming the dumping ground for the world's burgeoning waste trade

Taking the stink out of urinals

A sewage treatment technology is now being used to recycle wastewater in urinals

The paper society

Japan's trashbins give it back half the paper it uses and reuses