The strike by Paris garbage collectors has been going on for 16 days and is taking a toll on the city's aesthetics. The majority of French ...

In this paper, we focus on a specific group of informal SWM actors, the informal collectors. Their position is different from that of, say,...

The BBMP is also exploring options like adding more than one auto-tipper in an area, or modifying the route to increase its efficiency.

Days are not far when garbage mounds at the Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi will match the height of Qutub Minar and red beacon light will ...

The top court declined to take the Centre's 845-page affidavit on record saying the government cannot dump "junk" before it.

Under the new Solid Waste Management Rules, urban local authorities and panchayats will prepare a plan for managing solid refuse within six...

Started in 2014, they are selling recyclable garbage - papers to bottles and plastic - worth Rs 20,000 every month on an average.

The patch is enclosed by ocean currents that concentrate the plastics into an area estimated to be larger than twice the size of the UK.

Extra vehicles will be deployed for 2-3 days at a stretch because we expect flowers and plantain leaves during Ganesha festival.

Kamal Kumar Valmiki, who claims to have won three district-level gold medals in early '90s, also works as a part-time rickshaw-puller.

The waste from city kitchens will soon make its way to industries in better forms after they are processed at waste processing plants in th...

Road and water are virtually indistinguishable during rain in Suranjan Das road, whose widening plan has been on for nine years now.

Bengaluru city in-charge minister Ramalinga Reddy told ET this will be made part of the contract agreement, and would hopefully plug leaks.

Manchester project giving garbage collectors a cache of red cards to dole out to trashy wrongdoers begs the question about what their duty ...

Ramlila maidan, which has witnessed a series of historic protests, lay deserted with mattresses thrown around, unattended bags & sandals.

Several useful ideas had taken shape at this open house, but they needed improvement to become commercially viable.

Morals are what we seek to instill in our young. But morals have perverse practical implications. For example, garbage is good, even when n...