From 1982, Pirana has been Ahmedabad’s garbage dumping spot and has today become an unmanageable mess where frequent fires and unsegregated waste are regular occurrence
National Green Tribunal has directed Delhi government to take stock of Delhi’s landfills and ensure that the sites are working as per the Municipal Solid Waste...
Experts all over the world have estimated that in next 20 years demand for plastics will double and more the generation of plastic, more the damage...
The National Green Tribunal directed the East Delhi Municipal Corporation to take the help from Delhi government and ensure efficient treatment of waste by deploying trained...
Alarmed by the impact of increasing garbage generation on Bengaluru’s landfill, the owner of a vegetarian restaurant at the Sampige Road aggressively implemented waste segregation in...
These green crusaders show India how to celebrate eco-friendly weddings, keeping nature in mind and save tonnes of waste going to the landfills
Delhi oldest landfill – Ghazipur collapsed recently, took lives of two people and left several injured. If Deonar, the 90-year-old landfill in Mumbai, continues to get...
Odour is an important component of municipal waste and the CPCB’s report suggests methods which urban civic bodies can use to fight the problem of odour...
After the Ghazipur landfill collapsed on September 1, the landfill was shut. In a bid to prevent Delhi’s other landfills- Bhalswa and Okhla from overflowing, experts...
At Kolkata’s sole landfill, more than 4,000 metric tonnes of waste go in every day, despite the landfill's lifespan being over decades ago
Almost 70% of the waste that goes to landfills is organic waste that can be easily be put to use through composting. Here's how swachh warriors...
Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal gave an assurance to the citizens residing near the Ghazipur landfill and said mountains of garbage will be cleared in the next...
Ghazipur site is the oldest and one of the three "un-engineered" dumping grounds located in East Delhi and should have shut down in 2008
From banning any kind of garbage dumping on Ghazipur, diverting city’s waste to a temporary landfill to the Delhi authorities facing the wrath of National Green...
Recently Delhi’s oldest landfill - Ghazipur collapsed, leaving two people dead and several injured. Here is a lowdown of stark facts about the 80 feet garbage...