Traditionally, Indian households practiced frugality and resourcefulness. Clothes were repaired, resized, and lovingly reused, often passed down through generations. Containers found new lives, and food scraps returned to the earth …
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A small community of artists in India is trying to make a difference by repurposing e-waste by giving discarded electronic products a second life. Vishwanath Mallabadi Davangere from Bangalore, Karnataka, …
Seven years after the Bombay High Court told the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to shut the Deonar dumping ground, the civic body has finalised a contractor to set up a …
Biogas and waste-to-electricity plants were once considered to be the silver bullet that would solve India’s waste processing problems, as well as generate a useful by-product. At a time when …
UK’s Environment Agency (EA) and the University of Manchester are experimenting with a drone to monitor the gaseous emissions from 200 landfill sites across Britain. The agency will use a …
The annual quantum of dangerous-toxic junk or the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) generated is going to be about 65.4 million tonnes in 2017, as illegal dumping in landfills …
