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Measures beyond recycling needed in tandem with plastic waste rules

Rohin Kumar 15 Apr 2021
An all-women’s team led by Saraswathi Murthy makes chocolates at Mason & Co. in Auroville, Puducherry. Saraswathi who leads the women in the factory, was first spotted by founders Jane Mason and Fabien Bontems and trained by them in 2013. Photo courtesy Mason & Co.

The sweet taste of low-waste, sustainable chocolates

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 13 Apr 2021

Stakeholders raise concerns on the new vehicle scrapping policy

Rohin Kumar 29 Mar 2021
Menstruators are switching to reusable cloth sanitary napkins to make menstruation comfortable.

[Explainer] What is sustainable menstruation and how can it help tackle menstrual waste?

Snigdha Nalini Oreya 19 Mar 2021

Managing waste to save the wetlands of Himachal Pradesh

Snigdha Nalini Oreya 16 Mar 2021

[Commentary] Why do novel ideas like turning a city’s waste to manure fail?

Monika Mandal 15 Feb 2021

Alcohol bottle waste: A transparent problem in Goa’s beaches

Pamela D'Mello 12 Feb 2021
Marine debris entangled in branching coral in the waters of the Gulf of Mannar. Photo courtesy SDMRI.

Ghosts of the gulf: Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar

Aathira Perinchery 18 Jan 2021

[Commentary] Cost-effective technology options for Faecal Sludge Management

Sandhya Haribal, Tarika Vaswani 23 Dec 2020

Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020
Biomedical waste dumped in Dombivali’s Milap Nagar during ongoing the COVID pandemic. Photo by Kishor Sohoni.

Mumbai’s COVID waste peaks, second waste treatment plant not in sight

Tanvi Deshpande 1 Sep 2020

Your Environment This Week: Wild campuses, e-waste disposal, Onam food for thought

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

[Explainer] The why and how of disposing electronic waste

Sejal Mehta 25 Aug 2020

Pollution watchdog releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste

Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2020

Use treated effluents for irrigation with caution, advises CPCB

Mayank Aggarwal 13 Nov 2019

Wanted: An urgent political saviour for river Yamuna

Hridayesh Joshi 25 Oct 2019

Mountain of waste in Aravallis casts a shadow in villages nearby

Hridayesh Joshi 18 Oct 2019

India’s megacities, Mumbai and Delhi, sitting on a pile of waste

Mayank Aggarwal 11 Oct 2019

MoEFCC expert committee gives wildlife clearance for Kaiga nuclear plant’s expansion

Mayank Aggarwal 3 Oct 2019
Coonoor stream after it was cleaned up. Photo by Clean Coonoor.

Coonoor citizens and officials clean the streams and river in the hill town

Nina Varghese 2 Oct 2019