<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "Ahmedabad Surat landfills among worst three methane hotspots in India" appearing in the Times of India dated 07.02.2024.</p>
Expressing concern over the Government’s negligence towards City’s garbage problem, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the State to identify five more landfill sites to manage the waste generated by Bangalore in the future. Accepting the BBMP’s submission that it was the State government which had to identify the landfills, the court sought to know why the State was waiting for a request to identify landfill sites.
Mumbai: The Bombay high court, in an interim order, on Tuesday restrained the BMC from dumping waste and debris at the Kanjurmarg landfill. Hearing a PIL filed by Vanashakti, a division bench of Justices
Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka laid the foundation stone for an integrated plant for garbage segregation and generating power from biogas, as part of efforts to address the garbage menace, in the City on Monday. The project will come up on the vacant site near the NMKRV College at a cost of Rs three crore.
Northern Ireland's second largest shopping centre, which serves 14 million shoppers a year, has been recognised for achieving zero waste to landfill. CastleCourt teamed up with waste management company
Bangalore’s unprecedented fall into the depths of waste management standards has triggered global attention, even a dramatic New York Times article. While many took offence at this inglorious attack on the city’s image, the civic agencies might have to depend on international help to arrest this dangerous slide into absolute chaos. German help, to be precise. On a visit to Bangalore, the German State Secretary for Economic Cooperation, Gudrun Kopp elaborated on this vital input and how the experience of Germany’s enduring 12-year partnership with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) on waste management might just turn the tide.
This toolkit is focussed to provide a comprehensive knowledge of solid waste management for implementers, hence it has been prepared to provide vital information that a municipal manager will require while
The paper discusses the characteristics of leachate generated from municipal solid waste landfilling sites of Ludhiana City, Punjab (India). Leachate samples were collected and analyzed for various physico-chemical
Contractors held accountable for garbage segregation After coming under fire from all quarters for hitting the headlines in New York Times for poor garbage clearance in the City, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Council on Tuesday approved 80 municipal solid waste disposal contracts worth Rs 305 crore. The Council also gave the nod for purchasing 400 acres of land, off Bagepalli near Chikkaballapur at Rs 6.75 lakh an acre for garbage disposal. It was decided to entrust the responsibility of land acquisition to Bhagirathi Enterprises through a general power of attorney. After verification of records, the resolution to buy land would be forwarded to the State government.
Basking in the glory of its “IT Capital” tag brandished globally, Bangalore has just had an inglorious wake-up call. The city’s notoriously ineffective, unscientific waste management has been laid bare by “The New York Times” in a strikingly incisive report titled “India’s plague, trash, drowns its Garden City during strike.” Stung by this global attention of the stinker kind, the civic agencies are frantically, cluelessly looking for a way out for the mounting garbage piles.
Study shows high leachate levels remain untreated The haphazard dumping of garbage at various landfills outside the City has taken a toll on the health of residents in surrounding villages. Leachate, a toxic fluid which is often discharged from decomposing urban organic waste has been responsible for the contamination of both groundwater and surface water in areas around the dumping grounds.
