Clean Thiruvananthapuram, but dirty Villappilsala

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala was once known as the cleanest city in India. Today, it is littered with garbage

City of waste

The ancient capital of India is unable to handle its garbage

Bihar to strengthen waste management profile by formulating a low-carbon action plan

Anaerobic treatment of wastewater with methane recovery is one of the primary targets for maximum reduction of emissions from the waste sector

COVID-19: Weak liquid waste management can worsen spread

Liquid waste generated from healthcare facilities should be disinfected at source

Biomedical waste in Delhi: What monitoring without figures, asks report

Liquid hospital waste discharged in sewers, many operating without DPCC authorisation

What happens to our shit once we are done with it?

SFD Week: From treatment technologies to the genetics of faecal sludge

Swachh Survekshan 2019 throws up contradictions

Indore, Ambikapur and Mysuru win the top spots in Surveskhan 2019

UK to reduce waste

Clean move

NGT fines petitioner Rs 1 lakh for wrongly accusing company of improper waste management, wasting court’s time

An expert committee found nothing wrong with the waste treatment plant that was functioning with the necessary environmental approvals

Recycled food waste may be contaminated with pharma residues but mushroom cultivation may come to rescue

Biogas digestate from food waste had nearly as many pharmaceutical residues as digestate from sewage sludge, new study shows

Waste to wealth: Challenges India needs to overcome to use biosolids for improving soil health, meeting SDGs

The reuse of biosolids from sewage and septage treatment plants in India presents a remarkable opportunity to transform waste into a valuable resource

International E-waste day: The tsunami is here

The volume of E-waste increased by 21% globally in the last 5 years; it has a doubling rate of 16 years

How Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants are way off the mark

The recent uproar against the Okhla plant highlights how none of three in the Capital is effectively doing what they are supposed to

Is Swachh Bharat Mission ensuring waste segregation systems?

Segregation is still not being followed in its true spirit across India due to the lack of adequate end-to-end infrastructure for waste …

Swachh Bharat Mission will achieve ODF target much before October 2019, but...

The country needs both financial and administrative attention towards ensuring effective management and disposal of solid and liquid waste

Pune’s draft bye-laws threaten existing model of plastic waste management

The bye-laws not only threaten the existing SWaCH model but also lacks clarity on guidelines for extended producer responsibility

Asia witnessed 63 per cent jump in e-waste generation in five years

A UN study revealed that most of these countries lack the infrastructure to recycle e-waste safely and cleanly

The Wasted Earth

Waste has become a global problem, and is demanding curative technologies that require almost preternatural efficiency to execute. And that keep …

Novel medical waste treatment facility in Chennai

Tamil Nadu will soon have its first centralised biomedical waste treatment facility. The unit is being set up in Chennai by the Hyderabad-based G …

Why waste management in Northeast India needs an urgent overhaul

Specialised policies needed for mountainous regions;standardised national-level policies lack nuance for regional challenges

A way to live with the demon

Plastic is here to stay. We have to find ways to use it smartly

Naming the culprits

Killer hospitals

Bottled up by plastics