The initiative also plants trees in urban areas to help combat air pollution, and it recently finished recycling 2 million ...

India is losing waste recycling business opportunities worth thousands of crores due to poor processing capacity and inefficiencies in an informal scrap management sector, government think tank NITI ...

Poor logistics and erratic weather are causing enormous produce loss, which in turn intensifies climate change as food rots ...

From segregating kitchen waste at home to deploying advanced chemical recycling technologies, India's waste management story ...

Gulam Murtaza Nabeel India’s growing waste crisis is often discussed in the context of metropolitan cities, but the situation in small and hilly districts remains largely invisible. During my summer ...

A vast and varied terrain, coupled with an influx of tourists, has caused a growing waste crisis in the Himalayan state.

Pulling up several departments for their low performance in recycling and reusing construction and demolition (C&D) waste, chief secretary Rajeev Verma last week directed all agencies to expedite work ...

At the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), at Belem, in November 2025, host Brazil quite fittingly placed waste at the heart of the ...

Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.