Nearly three years after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) rolled out its plan to collect segregated waste from households across the city, the initiative is still struggling to gain momentum.

Stakeholders have canvassed source segregation, the practice of separating waste materials at the point of generation, as a crucial step towards achieving zero waste in Lagos State. The president of ...

Qatar has made remarkable progress in waste segregation at source initiative with Doha recording segregation rates exceeding 85%. The initiative is aimed at enhancing Qatar’s circular economy. The ...

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, superseding the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. The rules have been notified ...

MCD implements a 15-point action plan for new SWM rules, focusing on zero-waste colonies and four-way waste segregation.

India is home to over 2400 dumpsites that collectively hold more than 2,33 crore tonnes of waste every year. Upon learning this staggering statistic, Sandeep Tiwari decided to act on it, and in 2018, ...

Panaji: The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) approved a series of new initiatives to strengthen the state’s waste management system, including the introduction of five-way waste segregation in ...