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From kitchen storage to recycling bins: How Deposit Refund Schemes can change India’s plastic economyIndia is exploring Deposit Refund Schemes (DRS) to tackle plastic waste, where consumers pay a small deposit on packaged products, refunded...
Apple reports record use of recycled materials across products in 2025Apple reported that 30% of the materials used in its 2025 products came from recycled sources, its highest level so far, as part of its pus...
57-year-old Man mistakenly throws 20 gold bars worth $142,000 into trash, authorities rush to recover themA 57-year-old man in Torre Lapillo, Puglia, mistakenly threw away 20 gold bars worth approximately €120,000 while cleaning his home. Believ...
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...
Six killed, 32 missing after 20-storey garbage heap collapses in Philippines; see pictures of the aftermathRescue teams are continuing their search for survivors after a massive landfill collapse in Cebu City, Philippines, which killed at least s...
India’s waste crisis is also its biggest circular economy opportunity, says Blue Planet’s Prashant SinghBlue Planet Environmental Solutions positions India's waste crisis as a significant opportunity for circularity, having processed over 13 m...
Stocks in news: Glenmark Pharma, Adani Energy, Dr Reddy's, Tata Motors, Newgen SoftwareMarkets declined due to global and domestic pressures, with the Nifty testing support at 25040. Glenmark Pharma partnered with Hengrui Phar...
Adani Energy Solutions gets 'Zero-Waste-to-Landfill' certification across all sitesAdani Energy Solutions Limited (AESL) announced that all its sites and headquarters have received Intertek’s Zero-Waste-to-Landfill certifi...
$950 million lost bitcoin: James Howells gives up landfill search after 12 yearsJames Howells, a Welsh computer engineer, has ceased his 12-year attempt to retrieve a hard drive containing keys to 8,000 Bitcoin, now wor...
Did a simple cleanup cost this man $742 million? The shocking 12-year hunt for lost BitcoinJames Howells, an IT worker, accidentally discarded a hard drive with 8,000 Bitcoins. The digital wallet is now worth millions. He launched...
Bitcoins worth Rs 6,015 crore thrown away by techie's ex-girlfriend. 'I had no idea what was in it'A techie's $714 million Bitcoin fortune remains buried in a landfill after his ex-girlfriend accidentally threw away the hard drive storing...
Centre approves proposals worth Rs 860 crore for West Bengal under Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0West Bengal strives to meet waste management goals by 2026 with comprehensive plans, including waste-processing plants in all cities. The s...
Start talking trash to save the planet
The Kabadiwala raises $ 2 million to accelerate circular economy in IndiaThe Kabadiwala was founded in 2014 by Anurag Asati and Kavindra Raghuwanshi. Challenging the status quo, they offered free doorstep scrap c...
NITI Aayog bats for incentives to segregate waste at sourceThe Aayog has proposed introduction of ‘Pay As You Throw’ policy which will entail a waste collection fee from the waste generator in propo...
Need to develop circular economy for helping India post-COVID: Amitabh Kant"The green recovery post-COVID would not just help us to tackle environmental challenges like climate change, it would also help economic r...
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 ...
- 99 per cent of Sweden's waste is now reused
Around 99 per cent of Sweden's garbage is now recycled and the country is so efficient at managing waste they are importing it from other E...
Rigorous norms and standards needed for sound handling of urban solid wasteThe neglect of solid waste management (SWM) is growing into a huge stink, which gravely compromises public health and the environment.
- MCD to generate power from garbage
Garbage dumps in the capital would soon be put to good use with the MCD planning to set up gas plants in the landfills to generate electric...