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UN Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Stalemate as Petrostates Push for a Waste Management Treaty

The three-year-long negotiation process for a Global Plastics Treaty has reached a stalemate, concluding after 11 days o...

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Why technicalising India’s waste crisis is not the solution

Pushing technological solutions like waste-to-energy plants overlook the social, political and economic aspects of wast...

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IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

While IFC’s withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste...

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Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

Taking health into consideration, is garbage incineration the way forward to tackle waste? A recent investigative report...

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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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PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?

One in three plastic generators in Tamil Nadu does not recycle plastic waste according to govt-mandated norms. Despite a...

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A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat

Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) is a Waste to Energy (WTE) developer based out of Gujarat in India, who is developin...

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Why a waste-to-energy plant is not the answer to Chennai’s garbage problems

Chennai generates about 6,000 metric tonnes of garbage every day. As the city’s population continues to grow, waste gene...

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How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP governmen...

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How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is hi...

Coverage Energy Oil and gas WTE(Waste to Energy)

September 29, 2025

Dr Vishvaja Sambath

UN Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Stalemate as Petrostates Push for a Waste Management Treaty

The three-year-long negotiation process for a Global Plastics Treaty has reached a stalemate, concluding after 11 days of talks at INC-5.2 in Geneva. The negotiations, which began on August 5, 2025, aimed to refine the Chair’s Text from December 2024 with the objective of adopting a legally binding ...

Energy General GPT (Global Plastics Treaty)

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June 12, 2025

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

Why technicalising India’s waste crisis is not the solution

Pushing technological solutions like waste-to-energy plants overlook the social, political and economic aspects of waste. “Trash is treasure when you recycle.” “Don’t waste waste—manage it well!” “Technology can transform waste from a problem into a valuable resource.” “Technological innovations...

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April 16, 2025

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IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

While IFC’s withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste solutions instead. On 17 February, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, confirmed it will not provide a planned $40 million loan to su...

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November 26, 2024

Afroz Khan, Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran, Geo Damin, Vishvaja Sambath

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

Taking health into consideration, is garbage incineration the way forward to tackle waste? A recent investigative report by the New York Times on Delhi’s Waste-To-Energy (WTE) incinerators, analysed 150 air and soil samples gathered over a five-year period, from 2019 to 2023. The lead and arsenic-la...

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July 31, 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...

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August 13, 2024

Times of India

PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?

One in three plastic generators in Tamil Nadu does not recycle plastic waste according to govt-mandated norms. Despite a Feb 2022 Union govt rule for all plastic waste generators to recycle their waste under the extended producer responsibility system, more than 30% of plastic-waste generating firms...

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July 7, 2024

CFA Admin

A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat

Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) is a Waste to Energy (WTE) developer based out of Gujarat in India, who is developing 4 WTE plants in Rajkot, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Jamnagar of cumulative capacity 52.20 MW as of 2023. Of these four projects, the project in Jamnagar with a capacity to produce 7....

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May 29, 2024

Shobana Radhakrishnan

Why a waste-to-energy plant is not the answer to Chennai’s garbage problems

Chennai generates about 6,000 metric tonnes of garbage every day. As the city’s population continues to grow, waste generation is expected to increase even more. Not to mention the huge quantities of legacy waste currently accumulating in the Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dump yards. How will the Greate...

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October 4, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is produced Since the inception of the first failed WTE plant in Delhi in 1987, successive governm...

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October 27, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is produced. “This is an emergency situation and the people would be...

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UN Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Stalemate as Petrostates Push for a Waste Management Treaty

Why technicalising India’s waste crisis is not the solution

IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

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

PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?

A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat

Why a waste-to-energy plant is not the answer to Chennai’s garbage problems

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

UN Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Stalemate as Petrostates Push for a Waste Management Treaty

Why technicalising India’s waste crisis is not the solution

IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

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

PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?

A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat

Why a waste-to-energy plant is not the answer to Chennai’s garbage problems

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic