Sri Lanka has ordered the return of 213 containers of waste from Britain after finding, plastic and biological waste including suspected human body parts in the shipments, government officials said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka raises stink over waste consignments from Britain

Watch this report to know how the single-use plastic is the real villain.

Single-use plastic: The real villain?

Continuing its efforts to establish an environment-friendly network, the Delhi Metro has become the first ever project in the country to receive power generated from a waste-to-energy plant.

Delhi Metro becomes India's first project to receive power from waste-to-energy plant

Researchers from Botany department, Savitribai Phule Pune University have invented a new concept to degrade polythene. Researchers have found that polythene can also be degraded by Fungi.

Researchers invent new concept to degrade polythene in Pune

Singapore is using insects to tackle its problem of food wastage

The Waste-to-Energy Plants at Okhla, Ghazipur and Bawana in the national capital are not complying with emission standards and are causing air pollution, a committee has informed the National Green Tribunal.

Three waste-to-energy plants in Delhi causing pollution, NGT orders fresh inspection

Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill in 2017 or any year since 2011

Sweden has run out of waste and is importing it from other countries

Power from wind, solar and hydro plants is often wasted as there is not enough transmission capacity to absorb it, leading to high curtailment rates, especially in northwestern China

China to stop wastage of renewable energy by 2020

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