Tag: hazardous household waste

Policy & others
Gurugram’s new COVID-waste pick-up plan

Gurugram’s new COVID-waste pick-up plan

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has drawn up a zone-wise schedule for the collection of bio-medical waste by its appointed agency, Biotic. Henceforth, the agency’s workers will collect waste from the patient’s homes on designated…

News
“Waste management solutions should be environmentally sustainable so that we don’t create a new problem while solving another one…”

“Waste management solutions should be environmentally sustainable so that we don’t create a new problem while solving another one…”

Post the COVID-19 lockdown, cities across India have been generating significantly lesser quantities of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is the steep rise in the quantity of hazardous…