Waste

SWaCH is a Pune-based cooperative owned and controlled by waste-pickers themselves, who work in tandem with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and get complete control over the user fees for …

TedX speaker, honorary PHD and Recycle Man of India are just some of the titles that rest lightly on the shoulders of Binish Desai, the maverick of India’s waste sector. …

While the focus is understandably on providing frontline personnel with PPE to safeguard their health, we also urgently need to scale up our capacity for safely processing used PPE, which …

The CPCB has said that less quantity of biomedical waste is expected from quarantine camps, quarantine home, and homecare facilities.   Using double-layered bags, mandatory labelling and colour-coded bins for …

Many in the professional cleaning industry report they are swamped right now, with end-customers asking them to help them sanitize their facilities. However, at the same time, they realize our …

WHO Interim guidance 19 March 2020 This interim guidance supplements the infection prevention and control (IPC) documents by summarizing WHO guidance on water, sanitation and health care waste relevant to …

Focusing on the theme, the conference looked at waste conversion from the end user point of view be it an industry reusing the biogas or transport sector consuming the CNG …

There is no other way to put it; the Waste Technology Expo 2020 was an unprecedented, success. It attracted crowds that blocked the aisles, garnered interest beyond expectations, and initiated …

Every day, Indian homes, restaurants and food processing units generate unimaginable quantities of food waste, which, until fairly recently, was mixed along with all other waste and sent to a …

For the last few years, 1,600 Japanese municipal officials have been collecting thousands of tonnes of old electronic devices, from which nearly 8 tonnes of gold, silver and bronze will …