Chennai: To promote source segregation, efficient processing of wet waste generated at home and reduce burden on city's waste management system, several of Chennai's prominent gated communities and ...

Chennai: Nearly a third of the wet waste will soon stop being sent to the dumpyard, as Greater Chennai Corporation plans ...

A large-scale waste collection drive ‘Kuppai Thiruvizha’ was launched across 200 wards in the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) limits on Wednesday. The objective of the drive is to ensure “zero waste ...

Chennai: At a time when public resistance brought the waste-to-energy (WtE) project to a halt, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has moved decisively to revive and expand biomining operations as the ...

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 ...

Report reveals 45 of 48 pollution parameters unmonitored at Kodungaiyur incinerator, raising serious environmental and health ...

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.