VIJAYAWADA: A curious transformation often occurs when Indians travel abroad. People who may casually litter at home become ...

Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has directed civic officials to encourage housing societies across Mumbai to ...

Introduction The increasing generation of plastic waste in healthcare settings, particularly in dentistry, highlights the need for structured recycling and waste segregation initiatives. Aim This ...

Trichy: Even as urban local bodies across the country prepare to implement the new Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, ...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Municipal Corporation (CSMC) is aiming to achieve 100% waste segregation at source, with measures ...

From now on, sorting your waste into dry and wet categories won’t do. The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has officially rolled out the four-bin waste segregation system, under the revised Solid ...

Thirty-five-year-old Divya Dhingra, on her move from Mumbai to Gurugram in 2022, brought along with her the practice of waste segregation, which was large ignored in the Millennium City, she said. She ...

The new Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, will come into effect from April 1. The new rule by the central environment ministry has mandated strict four-way segregation at the source. Starting ...

Trichy contract sanitary workers, burdened by long hours for waste segregation, seek wage hike from Rs 15,000 to Rs 26,000 amid rising costs and no-pay leave.

Even when we clean, because of laziness or lack of time, we often throw all waste into the same bin without separating ...