waste management

Balaka Ghosal writes about Ganga Narayan Ghosh, a mechanical engineer by qualification who has designed some unique bins to tackle the problem of waste management in India in an organised way.

Run by a group of environmentally-conscious individuals, Waste Ventures India provides waste solutions for housing societies and corporate offices by recycling dry waste and composting organic waste.

Garbology uses colouring books, board games & activity-based learning to drive long-term behavioural change among school students, especially with regard to consumption & waste management.

Unsure about whether the waste you segregate and dispose of is actually recycled or not? Here is one company that will take complete responsibility of the waste generated from your house or office, and make sure it does not end up in landfills.

For the first time in the history of the country, Kerala witnessed a green and waste-free swearing-in ceremony of the new government. This, and a lot more to manage waste in the state, is being made possible by an IAS officer and her team. Here’s more.

Free your house and neighbourhood from the menace of growing waste with these apps that have revolutionised waste management in India.

In Coimbatore, two youngsters started an NGO, Meipolur, to create awareness among residents about waste management, and encourage them to segregate waste.

The Vivekanand Education Society, which produces 100 kilograms of waste, has a zero-waste campus. While dry waste is given away to recycle, wet waste is used for composting. In the end, none of the waste generated ends up in landfills.

The fires at the Deonar dumping ground could have been prevented with proper waste segregation. Here's how four teens from Mumbai have a solution for dry waste management, which also creates electricity.

Here are the factors that led to Mysore getting the top spot for cleanest city in India, and why Chandigarh, in spite of being India's first planned city, lost out.