The new Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, will come into effect from April 1. The new rule by the central environment ministry has mandated strict four-way segregation at the source. Starting ...

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) The New Delhi Municipal Council will enforce mandatory four-stream segregation of waste at source from April 1, in line with the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, as ...

Thirty-five-year-old Divya Dhingra, on her move from Mumbai to Gurugram in 2022, brought along with her the practice of waste segregation, which was large ignored in the Millennium City, she said. She ...

The municipal corporation’s solid waste management (SWM) section has stepped up public awareness efforts to keep the city clean and attractive. As part of this initiative, municipal commissioner G ...

A woman segregates plastic waste gathered from garbage dumps for recycling, at a scrapyard on the outskirts of Bengaluru in September 2024. | AFP India’s environment ministry notified the new solid ...

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 ...

Caption: Students and members of ‘Parisarakkagi Naavu' participate in the Environmental Walkathon organised at Dharwad on Tuesday. Aimed at creating awareness about proper waste management, the ...

Gurugram: Preliminary audit of daily municipal and solid waste management at Bhandwari landfill highlighted gaps in limited door-to-door collections, fresh waste treatment before being sent to the ...

India’s new solid waste managed rules introduce four-way waste segregation, tighter responsibilities for bulk waste generators, higher landfill fees for mixed waste, and a centralised portal to track ...

Waste management has been a weak link in India’s development story, and within this, the failure to ensure proper waste segregation has been particularly disappointing. This is despite the fact that, ...

The Union Environment Minister, Bhupender Yadav, has announced the notification of new Solid Waste Management Rules, set to be implemented starting April 1. These rules introduce mandatory four-stream ...