These UNEP guidelines for national waste Management seeks to provide strategic guidance to countries whose waste management systems are disorganized, haphazard or under-resourced or are in need of a review of their current strategies.
Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally with programs such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) providing funding for many WtE projects across the world.
Three months after new rules on collection and disposal of electronic waste came into effect, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has collected seven tonnes of ewaste.
This set of zero waste case studies profiles nine diverse communities, each providing a real-world example of authentic progress toward the goal of zero waste.
Okhla residents accuse BJP and Congress of trying to poison people by promoting waste incineration to generate electricity. The plant is being put through trial runs. Even as candidates contesting municipal seats in the national capital make their rounds of residential colonies to seek votes, citizens and waste-pickers' associations are angered by the election manifesto of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). One of the promises it makes is electricity from waste by setting up incineration plants in various parts of the city.
Byculla residents have been forced to live in unhygienic conditions with the stench of adult diapers, bloodied cotton swabs, gauges, syringes, needles, used intravenous tubes and an endless list of
Shimla: The European Union (EU) has approved a Rs 7-crore city sanitation project for the state capital along with capacity building and awareness in four other municipalities in Himachal Pradesh.
In a bid to promote its renewed initiative for the segregation of wet and dry garbage, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to rope in activists and residents of several housing
