The New Delhi Municipal Council will mandate four-stream waste segregation starting April 2026. This initiative, aligned with the Solid Waste Management Rules, aims for a cleaner urban environment.

Gurugram: Preliminary audit of daily municipal and solid waste management at Bhandwari landfill highlighted gaps in limited door-to-door collections, fresh waste treatment before being sent to the ...

Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Ltd. (BSWML) has flagged violations of waste handling norms by contractors and field staff. According to a letter from BSWML to all its officials and contractors, ...

The initiative, known as the Switch to Upstream Circularity Pilot, took place under the broader SWITCH to Circular Economy Value Chains (SWITCH2CE) programme. Launched in January 2023 with seven ...

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 ...

Turning waste into wealth may no longer be just a marketing slogan, as a team of researchers in China has found an eco-friendly way to do exactly that. The abundant sunlight our planet receives was ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, researchers demonstrate the successful engineering of a biological process to "upcycle" poly ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a biological process to convert PET plastics from food and beverage packaging into a medication for dopamine replacement therapy for ...

For this year’s International Day of Zero Waste, the focus is on food – what we eat, what we waste, and how we can move towards a more circular future. The world wastes food on a staggering scale.

In 1869 an innovative new material was created: plastic. Initially envisioned as a substitute for ivory in making billiard balls, the versatility of this new material has seen it applied to almost ...