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 ...

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 waste rules mandate a four-bin system with wet, dry, sanitary, and hazardous waste, replacing the earlier two-bin ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rules, 2026, which came into force on April 1, mandate strict four-stream waste segregation at source and introduce enhanced ...