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.

The New Delhi Municipal Council will mandate four-stream waste segregation starting April 2026. This initiative, aligned with the Solid Waste Management Rules, aims for a cleaner urban environment.

If waste segregation is still not part of the daily routine in your home, then get ready to fall in line. New rules are coming into effect on April 1, 2026. Under the revised Solid Waste Management ...

Following the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) decision to eliminate the need to transport household waste, six residential colonies have emerged as test cases for decentralising waste management.

Jaipur: Ahead of new solid waste management rules coming into force in April, the Jaipur Municipal Corporation is preparing to introduce a four-way segregation of waste at source. But the city's waste ...

BENGALURU: The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML), which had terrorised the public littering waste at street corners by tracing them and dumping loads of waste at their doorstep, ...