Ten years after the Central government introduced the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) on October 2, 2014 as a flagship initiative to improve India’s solid waste management, a lack of segregation at source ...

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, superseding the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. The rules have been notified ...

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.

Pic: HDMC officials create awareness on segregating waste at household level in HubballiHubballi: Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is facing challenges in achieving 100% waste segregation ...

If waste segregation is still not part of the daily routine in your home, then get ready to fall in line. New rules are coming into effect on April 1, 2026. Under the revised Solid Waste Management ...