New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, superseding the Solid Waste Management ...

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 ...

The statistics are numbing: 1.85 lakh tonnes of solid waste generated every single day, barely two-thirds of it collected, ...

Much of the governance challenges of waste management in India centres around the fact that even somewhat decent rules fall ...

In its proceedings on April 24, the NGT took note of an affidavit filed by the Punjab Pollution Control Board, which detailed ...

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.

Bhopal: Taking strong exception to continued flouting of Solid Waste Disposal Rules-2016 in Bhopal and all across Madhya Pradesh despite several directives of the NGT and courts, the central bench of ...

The Nagaland government on Friday called for effective implementation of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, in light of the Supreme Court’s directions.

As India’s updated Solid Waste Management Rules came into effect on April 1, introducing a mandatory new category called ‘special care waste’, Kerala is more than prepared to implement it, according ...