With an increase in urbanization and size of population, the world, especially the South Asian and Sub-Saharan African countries are set to produce the biggest proportion...
To unburden Kolkata’s already exhausted Dhapa landfill, the city’s civic body has begun work on manufacturing CNG and bio-fertilisers from wet waste
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation uses around 200 tonnes of wet waste to produce 30-40 tonnes of compost daily
Leh district will soon get a ‘BlackHOLE’ machine, which has a capacity of converting one tonne of waste into 20 kilos of dry ash within 24...
1,000 kilos of e-waste was collected in one year at the recycling centre at Dhankawadi in Pune, thanks to the efforts of waste pickers
Tamil Nadu will spend over Rs 600 crore to revamp its waste management infrastructure completely, as the state does away with landfills and concentrates on composting
Cartons are 100% recyclable, but usually ends up clogging the already filled landfills, but thanks to this Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation initiative, an NGO in Mumbai is...
In compliance with NGT’s order, the waste would be dried to be transported away from the site and later segregated
Zero-waste landfill city Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh was rewarded as one of India’s best city in ‘Innovation and Best Practices’ (population 1 – 3 lakh) category in...
Veena and Sudarshana from Chennai are hoping to cut down on the waste burden of landfills by organising zero-waste weddings in an inexpensive way
Two new Waste-to-Energy plants with capacity of 3,500 Metric Tonnes are being set up at Bhalswa and at Tehkhand respectively. The capacity of existing Waste-to-Energy plant...
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor was criticised heavily by the Supreme Court for his inability to tackle the city’s mounting garbage crisis
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will work with experts from IIT-Delhi to stabilise the Okhla landfill site that has reached a staggering height of 165 feet
EDMC plans to distribute colour coded dustbins to 2,500 households in Trilokpuri to encourage waste segregation
Despite plans of shutting the landfill in 2008, or using waste from it to build highways, nothing has materialised yet