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 ...

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 ...

Ten years after the Central government introduced the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) on October 2, 2014 as a flagship initiative to improve India’s solid waste management, a lack of segregation at source ...

Today is January 31, the end of Zero Waste Month, observed yearly based on Proclamation No. 760 which highlights the urgent need to reduce waste generation and strengthen the implementation of the ...

Kochi: Door-to-door waste collection has improved across Ernakulam district, but poor segregation of non-degradable waste at source continues to pose a major challenge, data from Clean Kerala Company ...

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 ...

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.

On April 1, new regulations for Solid Waste Management will kick in, requiring everyone to adopt a four-stream waste segregation system from the outset. For those generating substantial waste, ...