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Chennai will soon burn 2100 tonnes of garbage everyday: How will this affect us?

TNM hit the ground in Chennai and found the existing small-capacity waste incinerators in the city to be damaging the e...

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Energy Matters | January 2025

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has introduced a new draft of Solid Waste Management Rul...

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Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers Submits Recommendations on Draft Solid Waste Management Rules, 2024

The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) has submitted a comprehensive set of recommendations to the Ministry of Envir...

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Burn and Earn: Another facet of Plastic Credits and the false solution that it is

Fighting plastic pollution is a herculean task in itself. However, on top of fighting to save the planet and the people ...

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A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technic...

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How plastics caused fire & affected air, water, soil, life in Brahmapuram

“Operation successful but the patient died” is perhaps the best phrase to describe the handling of the Brahmapuram fire ...

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India’s waste-to-energy paradigm

A POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produce...

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March 9, 2025

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Chennai will soon burn 2100 tonnes of garbage everyday: How will this affect us?

TNM hit the ground in Chennai and found the existing small-capacity waste incinerators in the city to be damaging the environment, raising concerns over public health. Image: The News Minute The Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) proposal for a Rs 1,026-crore Waste-To-Energy (WTE) plant, which...

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February 27, 2025

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Energy Matters | January 2025

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has introduced a new draft of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2024 that will replace the existing Solid Waste Management rules that came into force in 2016. It starts with a promising note, mandating a four-way segregation of waste, cover...

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February 27, 2025

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Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers Submits Recommendations on Draft Solid Waste Management Rules, 2024

The Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) has submitted a comprehensive set of recommendations to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change regarding the Draft Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2024. AIW, a national coalition representing over 1,04,465 waste pickers across 18 states...

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July 3, 2024

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

Burn and Earn: Another facet of Plastic Credits and the false solution that it is

Fighting plastic pollution is a herculean task in itself. However, on top of fighting to save the planet and the people from the impacts of the entire plastic life-cycle, we are confronted with yet another fight. Fighting false solutions to plastic pollution! False solutions are those that do not ac...

Energy Plastics WTE(Waste to Energy)

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October 27, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India. The committee headed by K. Kasturirangan, r...

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October 27, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

How plastics caused fire & affected air, water, soil, life in Brahmapuram

“Operation successful but the patient died” is perhaps the best phrase to describe the handling of the Brahmapuram fire which ravaged the city of Kochi. Spread over 110 acres of land, the Brahmapuram dumpyard caught fire on March 2, 2023. After the heroics of several departments including Fire, Air ...

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December 14, 2022

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India’s waste-to-energy paradigm

A POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India have been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and disposal of more manufactured materials by industrialised societies than their predecess...

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Chennai will soon burn 2100 tonnes of garbage everyday: How will this affect us?

Energy Matters | January 2025

Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers Submits Recommendations on Draft Solid Waste Management Rules, 2024

Burn and Earn: Another facet of Plastic Credits and the false solution that it is

A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

How plastics caused fire & affected air, water, soil, life in Brahmapuram

India’s waste-to-energy paradigm

Chennai will soon burn 2100 tonnes of garbage everyday: How will this affect us?

Energy Matters | January 2025

Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers Submits Recommendations on Draft Solid Waste Management Rules, 2024

Burn and Earn: Another facet of Plastic Credits and the false solution that it is

A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

How plastics caused fire & affected air, water, soil, life in Brahmapuram

India’s waste-to-energy paradigm

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