India Ranks Third In Clean Industrial Projects, But Only Six Have Reached FID Stage: ITA

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  Great Nicobar Mega Port or Char Dham Highway are Ideological Assertions, Says Amitav Ghosh

  Eminent writer Amitav Ghosh in an email interview to Nandini Keshari speaks about climate fiction, implications of Trump’s climate actions, development in ecologically sensitive areas and India’s net-zero-emission targets. Edited excerpts

  BY Nandini Keshari

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  Chandrajit Banerjee Writes: India Has Taken the First Steps to Building a Circular Economy for Plastics

  Strategies such as avoiding waste generation, sustainable business practices and full waste management underpin circularity

  BY Chandrajit Banerjee

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  India Serves as a Testing Ground for Scalable Solutions, Says Swetha Ramdas

  Swetha Ramdas, principal, APAC sustainability, Amazon tells Sudipto Dey in an email interview that the company is delivering orders with reduced or no packaging in over 300 cities in India. Edited excerpts

  BY Sudipto Dey

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  Puneet Anand Writes: Sustainability Should be a Core Pillar of Product Innovation

  Much of the plastic used in vehicles ends up in landfills, contributing to the growing problem of microplastic pollution

  BY Puneet Anand

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  Plastic Recycling is Very Much an At-scale Business, Say Harsh Mariwala and Masood Mallick

  Harsh Mariwala, Marico chairman and Masood Mallick, managing director and CEO of Re Sustainability, share with Sudipto Dey their experience of setting up a joint recycling venture. Edited excerpts

  BY Sudipto Dey

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  Ramnath Vaidyanathan Writes: Consumers Need to Play Their Part in Fixing Plastic Waste

  Plastic waste affects everyone and each one of us has contributed to these mountains of waste

  BY Ramnath Vaidyanathan

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  Suneel Pandey Writes: Maintaining the Status Quo in Plastic Waste Management is Not an Option

  While policy in India is robust and in line with international commitments, the reduction in plastic-waste recycling rates is a matter of concern

  BY Suneel Pandey