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Sanitary waste recycler PadCare Labs raises $3 million from Nithin Kamath’s Rainmatter, othersPadCare Labs, a sanitary waste recycling startup, has raised $3 million in a round led by Rainmatter, cofounded by Nithin Kamath. The fundi...- New solid waste management rules to come into force from April 1The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, superseding the Sol...
- ET Startup Awards 2025 | Social Enterprise: Chakr clears air on ways to tackle our pollution woesFor cofounder and chief executive Kushagra Srivastava, the problem of air pollution is personal. Having grown up in Delhi, he said the vent...
- Why menstrual waste is proving to be a 'big bloody mess' in IndiaThe disposal of sanitary pads in India is causing an environmental crisis due to their plastic content and lack of proper waste management....
- IIT-Kanpur reviews 'startup gateway for garbage-free cities'The program aims to provide support to startups working at the intersection of technology and social innovation. This support will help the...
- The Covid crisis is now a garbage crisis, tooSurging consumption of plastics and packaging during the pandemic has produced mountains of waste. But because fears of COVID-19 have led t...
- Quit plastic bottles and glasses, drink water from cupped hands: Meenakshi LekhiMeenakshi Lekhi said India wasted a lot of energy and resources by copying things which were not indigenous.
- Do you think paper cups, compostable bags as plastic alternative? You are wrongBioplastics are urban myth because these are difficult to segregate and need different temperatures to decompose, making the process cumber...
- Delhi: Not segregating your waste will cost youWastepickers from various groups, however, have rejected the bylaws because they fail to lay down how informal work force will be involved ...
- Here's one city turning India's mountain of trash into cashCombining the availability of cheap labor with traditional methods and modern plants shows how India might overturn its image of ubiquitous...
- 79% of plastic in landfills, water bodiesWhen Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last year given a call to save cows from plastic, his message brought into focus the hazards of this ...
- Green note: This music fest may not result in tonnes of wasteEchoes of Earth, a world music festival will bringing 40 local, national and international artists together on Nov 26 and 27.
- Condoms, diapers, pads to come with pouches for clean disposalUnder the rules, manufacturers, brand owners and marketing companies are also expected to educate the masses on proper disposal of the prod...
- Govt notifies rules to dispose of garbage; puts special attention on managing sanitary wasteManufacturers of sanitary pads/napkins and diapers in India will have to provide a pouch or wrapper for disposal along with the packets of ...
- Environment ministry revises the Solid Waste Management Rules after 16 yearsThe Rules stipulate zero tolerance for throwing, burning, or burying the solid waste generated on streets, open public spaces outside his p...
- Cities must gear up to treat waste, separated or notWith the absence of scientific landfills for contingency infrastructure, the situation is creating more open dumps and encouraging burning ...
- Waste picker from ward 198 returns from COP 21,urges to follow moral science lesson from school on cleanlinessMansoor Ahmed, the devoted waste picker from ward no 198, Jayanagar from the city, whose selfless work of collecting dry waste from more th...
- Colour code to treat trash at IIT-BHUSoon, the green committee of Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) will place separate dustbins to segregate b...
- Cities facing garbage disposal problem: GovernmentDue to lack of dumping space, financial constraints and inadequate capacity of urban local bodies, problem of garbage disposal in cities ha...
- Railways to introduce eco-friendly zero discharge toiletsEco-friendly zero discharge toilets are all set to be introduced in trains across the country.
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