Kerala has set ambitious zero-waste goals, but its reliance on unsustainable waste disposal methods and data inconsistencies raises questions about…
A Coonoor-based civil society group took over the town’s solid waste management five years ago, transforming the open municipal dumpyard…
Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated…
Microfactories, an innovative approach to extracting value from waste materials, point the way to sustainable production and consumption. At a…
Three huge landfills on Delhi’s periphery are at once eyesores and markers of unsustainable consumption. Birds of carrion circle over…
Nurdles, the tiny plastic pellets used as feedstock for making plastic products, are becoming dangerous as they spill into land…
Every January, coinciding with the winter solstice and the harvest festival of Sankranti, the village of Mathurapur in South 24…
On March 2, 25-ft-high ‘hills’ of garbage, extending over 40 acres at the Brahmapuram waste plant in Kochi caught fire,…
I have been a regular, enthusiastic visitor to the mountain towns of our country. I began as a 9-year-old and…
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