In a conference held in New Delhi, to address the issue of waste management, environmental experts said ‘a mass movement’ was required, to reduce the burden of waste in the country. Speaking at the … READ FULL STORY
Amishi Shah’s work involves using discarded materials, to create beautiful new products which are of higher value than the original product. The 24-year-old creative entrepreneur’s main aim, is to popularise the concept of ‘upcycling’ … READ FULL STORY
A National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench, headed by justice Raghuvendra S Rathore, on October 22, 2018, directed the joint secretary (Swachh Bharat) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, to appear before it, … READ FULL STORY
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is one of the most serious challenges to environment protection and although the Solid Waste Management Rules have been framed in 2016, their implementation remains a problem, a National … READ FULL STORY
Terming the situation in Delhi as ‘absolutely bizarre’, the Supreme Court, on July 12, 2018, referred to the ‘mountains of garbage’ at three landfill sites in Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa and said there was … READ FULL STORY
Cities were awarded under the Swachh Survekshan-2018, for their work on cleaning the city but not on how to process and recycle the waste, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said, on June … READ FULL STORY
Karnataka’s deputy chief minister G Parameshwara, on June 18, 2018, said that the government would take effective and strict measures, to make Bengaluru free from plastic. Parameshwara, who is the minister-in-charge for Bengaluru city … READ FULL STORY
In a significant step towards conservation of the environment, the Telangana government, on June 13, 2018, issued guidelines to limit plastic usage in offices of urban local bodies in the state. The guidelines followed … READ FULL STORY
“Smaller cities have been more successful in implementing source-segregation, compared to bigger cities. They have also been innovative in their approach and hence, have performed well,” the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE’s) programme … READ FULL STORY
The Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE’s) director general Sunita Narain, on April 19, 2018, warned that the richer Delhi was becoming, the ‘less livable’ it was turning into. Speaking in the presence of … READ FULL STORY
The Supreme Court, on March 27, 2018, warned that the day is not far, when garbage mounds at the Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi, will match the height of the iconic 73-metre-high Qutub Minar … READ FULL STORY
The government is working on guidelines for the management of landfill sites and will soon come up with a policy on it, environment secretary CK Mishra said. The development assumes significance, after the cave-in … READ FULL STORY
“At the age of 20, as a student of architecture in Mumbai, in a humanities class, I learnt of the catastrophic environmental devastation, resulting from run-of-the-mill construction practices, which devour the earth. I was … READ FULL STORY
