New York City is transforming organic waste like food scraps and yard trimmings into valuable compost, dubbed "black gold," at facilities l...

Oil India Limited (OIL) and Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on co...

ADB's financing will contribute to the Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0-Comprehensive Municipal Waste Management in Indian Cities Program, emphasi...

Kisanserv through its social initiative organized farmers meet in Manchar district of Maharashtra, distributed organic compost to around 20...

EKIESL will help ISCDL monetise emission reductions and realise additional revenue which it can use to support and fund its multiple welfar...

Bengaluru generates about 5,000 metric tonnes of waste per day, of which about 60% is said to be wet waste.

Combining the availability of cheap labor with traditional methods and modern plants shows how India might overturn its image of ubiquitous...

Officials from Centre, state, municipalities and the private sector that TOI spoke to summarised these aspects as key challenges that city ...

The Modi government had set an ambitious target of building 65.82 lakh individual household toilets and five lakh community and public toil...

While for rural areas the next challenge is to deal with the liquid waste generated, the situation across cities and towns seems to be gett...

Separating organic waste is one thing, making use of it another. Composting does not generate enough money. “In the city, you can’t compost...

Various reform initiatives such as credit rating, value capture financing, waste to energy and waste to compost were also discussed, a rele...

On Monday, municipal commissioners of these cities agreed to formulate time bound action plans by factoring in the solid waste already dump...

The urban development ministry on June 20 wrote to Bachchan, thanking him for being “one of the mostproactive ambassadors” of Swachh Bharat...

The government will soon provide a single-window clearance for urban development projects, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said.

Proposals for generating electricity and compost from municipal solid waste would shortly come up before the Cabinet for approval, Venkaiah...

Bengaluru usually celebrates the World Environment Day with celebrations, workshops and seminars. We list five things you can do every day.