Visakhapatnam: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation’s ambitious plan to go in for Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) through a public-private partnership for disposal of its garbage

Denying any plans to dump the nuclear waste generated from the Kud­ankulam reactor, once it becomes operational, in the defunct gold mines at Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) in Karnataka, minister of state in

Several well-known private hospitals and government general hospitals in Chennai are releasing bio medical effluents from their operation theatres into the sewers.

Hospital waste including blood and

After months of negligent waste disposal, and failing to satisfy the Karnataka High Court that it was capable of hewing to the task, a bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen gave the inept state

Complaints of ship waste being dumped into the Kochi backwaters are growing louder and more frequent. Local contractors collect the waste, mainly plastic and cloth, from ships and after sorting them,

The Kochi City Corporation is tying up with the Railways to channel the city’s non-degradable waste and construction debris for construction activities of the Railways.

This waste can be used as a f

While the tender for the new solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram was floated on Tuesday by the state government through its State Sanitation Mission, experts continue to insist the unit which h

While the tender for the new solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram was floated on Tuesday by the state government through its State Sanitation Mission, experts continue to insist the unit which h

Washington: Indian researchers say that the food industry generates a lot of waste products, but one of these, eggshells, could help combat climate change.

Basab Chaudhuri of the University of Calcu

Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, the environment minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, has assured villagers that a study w