Dear govt, you canāt burn your way out of a plastic crisis
As part of the 2025-26 budget, the state govt announced two waste-to-energy incineration plants
IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign
While IFCās withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste solutions instead. On 17 February, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bankās private sector...
Blue washing: New categorisation by CPCB promotes highly polluting incineration industry
Until recently, waste-to-energy incineration industries were classified by the CPCB as a āred categoryā ā a highly polluting industry. Recently, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has carved a new category of industries called...
Delhi-NCR civil society organizations, communities, and citizens urge the government to scrap the proposed expansion of toxic waste-to-energy incinerator projects in the National Capital Region
The deteriorating air quality and its health hazards across the world has raised the concerns around peopleās right to breathe clean air. Delhi-NCR, particularly in the winter months, has in fact emerged as a...
PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?
One in three plastic generators in Tamil Nadu does not recycle plastic waste according to govt-mandated norms. Despite a Feb 2022 Union govt rule for all plastic waste generators to recycle their waste under...
Neither New Nor Renewable
āDestructorsā, āincineratorsā and āwaste-to-energy (WTE) incinerationā all mean the same thing - indiscriminate burning of garbage! Having a history of about one and half centuries, WTE incinerators have seen several reboots over the 19th,...