Living next to Delhi’s trash mountain: Policies should focus on easing the struggles of waste pickers

These workers have no feasible access to social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and, most importantly waste sorting centres

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 24, 2023)

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

Timeless plastic: Museum displays vintage beached waste

Archeoplastica is a museum of ancient plastic items, now displaying some of the items in a virtual mode. As the world negotiates a new …

Bitter sweet: Petha production in Agra leaves behind waste and pollution

CSE study recommends that Agra must develop a number of strategies to reduce the impact of petha-making units on its environment and …

New membrane to help remove oil, dyes from industrial waste water

The membrane, developed by team from IIT-G, using graphene oxide, cotton fibre and dopamine removed around 98 per cent of oil from the water

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2019)

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

Letting sanitation workers die inside sewers is not ‘seva’: Bezwada Wilson

The activist speaks to Down To Earth on issues perpetuating manual scavenging and challenges in resolving them

Self-sufficiency and plastic ban

Imagine a scenario where packaging isn’t easy and cheap. The need would be, then, to create a self-sufficient neighbourhood 

Littering in South Africa is the expression of wider selfish – and costly – culture

Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society'…

Will India’s recycling sector collapse under the new GST regime?

Under the new GST regime, all categories of scrap now have a high tax rate of mostly 18 per cent

Did you know about public toilets that turn urine into electricity?

The researchers plan to test these urinals in India or in some regions of Africa, especially at refugee camps

Solving India's garbage problem

Segregation at source should be at the heart of municipalities’ solid waste management system

'India way ahead in tackling waste'

PAUL CONNET, professor at the Chemistry department, St Lawrence University, New York, has toured 29 countries in the last 11 years, educating …

Cleaning the microbe way

Even the tiniest microbes could help spruce up our foul environment when let loose on domestic waste. Researchers in Delhi are now advocating the …

Managing railway waste

The Indian Railways is the second largest railway network in Asia. It is the biggest public sector enterprise in India and connects the entire …

What are exposure pathways and health risks of microplastics in our body?

Microplastics and nanoplastics are found in the air, water, and food, leading to concerns about how they enter our bodies and the potential …

Up in smoke: Bandhwari dumpsite fire underscores need to overhaul waste management practices in Gurugram

The landfill caught fire around 8-8.30 pm on April 22, 2024

World Earth Day 2024: Urgent need to stop marine plastic pollution

On World Earth Day, join for an urgent call to halt marine plastic pollution  

Simply Put: Plastic waste

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 13, 2024)

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

Simply Put: Eternal gift

Simply Put: Plastic Planet

Simply Put: Plastic waste dumped on streets

Simply Put: Coca-Cola

India’s plastic waste situation wasn’t created today

Let’s chart the issue and see what it’s made of