The owners of all new buildings will have to provide separate coloured bins to collect dry waste.

Municipal bodies will be allowed to charge user fees and levy spot fines for littering and non-segregation

Welcoming the Centre's decision to notify construction and demolition management rules, a green body today said it was "urgently" needed as cities are choking on such waste which has serious enviro

The discovery by scientists of a new bacteria that can eat plastic is timely because studies indicate that by 2025, there would be one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of finfish caught in t

Nature has begun to fight back against the vast piles of filth dumped into its soils, rivers and oceans by evolving a plastic-eating bacteria – the first known to science.

Thane: The need to tackle the growing waste issue in the city has encouraged many housing societies, schools and even colleges to go the zero-waste way .Proper waste disposal has been an issue sinc