The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10 percent with most new plastic still made from fossil fuel...

In 2022, global plastic waste reached 268 million tonnes, with China and the US being the largest contributors. While India accounted for 3...

By 2030, Coca-Cola products are projected to contribute 1.33 billion pounds of plastic waste to oceans annually, equivalent to filling the ...

In China, the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year, according to g...

The National Green Tribunal imposed a Rs 4,000 crore ($540 million) environmental compensation on the Indian state of Bihar for its failure...

Industrialized nations like China are meeting their seafood needs with their highly sophisticated fishing fleet operating in international ...

According to UN data, 20 to 30 per cent of food produced is wasted.

Most of the clothes contain synthetic fabrics like nylon, acrylic and elastane.

With three abandonments and one no-result in a week, the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup is officially the wettest tournament of all time.

The statistics may appear to be picture perfect but the situation on the ground turned out to be somewhat different.

In India, 80% of total plastic consumption is discarded as waste and official statistics say the country generates 25,940 tonnes of waste d...

Of that total waste, only 9 per cent was recycled, 12 per cent was incinerated and 79 per cent accumulated in landfills or the natural envi...

By 2015, humans had generated 8.3bn metric tonnes of plastics, 6.3bn tonnes of which had become waste. Of that, only 9% was recycled, 12% w...

Waste-to-energy plants using organic matter are mushrooming in India, as newer technology brings ease of use and good returns on investment...

The Urban Development department will track important statistics and data like how many complaints are being lodged and which areas have ma...

Nothing beats typical Indian frugality: contrast a bucket's maximum of 30 litres to a bathtub's standard 250-litre capacity.