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…
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…