Wastes from hospitals, laboratories, human and animal clinics are considered hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Non-hazardous includes beddings, linens, bandages, and even waste from the kitchen. In ...

This highly urbanized city is urging residents to practice waste segregation at source even as it showcases best practices in ...

A woman segregates plastic waste gathered from garbage dumps for recycling, at a scrapyard on the outskirts of Bengaluru in September 2024. | AFP India’s environment ministry notified the new solid ...

Rotary club of Eko Atlantic in partnership with Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) held a sensitisation on waste segregation to accelerate action on the Environmental discomfort of Nigeria ...

Thanks to new guidelines, waste management in India will shift toward a circular economy, embedding extended producer responsibility and ‘polluter pays’ principle into the waste governance structure.

NEW DELHI: The Union Government has issued the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, which emphasize efficient waste segregation and management, operating on the "polluter pays" principle for ...