A t the sprawling 250-acre plastic bazaar at Tikri Kalan on the Delhi-Haryana border, towering mounds of white PP raffia bags stuffed with plastic scrap line the dusty, winding la ...

How to tackle plastic trash as its mismanagement makes the country the world's worst offender in plastic emissions ...

Ahmedabad: It is often the habit in our households to collect domestic waste in a polythene bag and then dispose it for door-to-door collection or by other means. Without realising, these bags ...

Deputy Commissioner Ashika Jain has said that to strengthen cleanliness system in the city and encourage source segregation, a pilot project is being started in five wards from June 9.

Waste collection workers, each of whom will have an app installed on their cell phones and personal login credentials, will scan the QR code in each house. This will record the time and frequency of ...

In fact, in 2021 Telangana topped the charts in the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) report with an annual plastic waste output of 4.7 lakh tonnes. That’s more than double its 2019 ...

Most composting facilities receive mixed waste, and the Bidadi waste-to-energy plant operates at only 60-70% capacity. These problems are not technical; they stem from poor segregation at source.

To prevent this, we need strong awareness campaigns, waste segregation at source, composting, and recycling incentives,” Dr Harish noted. “Nature has no waste. Humans do.” ...

Mumbai: Hindi will not be a compulsory third language in Maharashtra state board schools, but it will be the default choice unless at least 20 students in a class opt for an alternative language ...