Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
The Thai International textile manufacturing plant in Perunurai, discharges significant volume of wastewater each day. The pH level must be controlled to meet requirements for safe discharge. This modern textile dye facility processes cotton fabric using color dye stuffs and proprietary chemicals.
This review presents biological treatment methods for petroleum refinery wastewater, their applications, advantages and disadvantages. It covers refinery wastewater characteristics, different categories of biological treatment systems (suspended, attached and hybrid growths) and comparison between each system with conventional activated sludge process.
Reverse osmosis (RO) with polyamide membrane of spiral wound and precipitation with commercial sodium carbonate were studied to remove hazardous substances [chromium(III), sulfate, chloride and sodium] contained in a tanning wastewater. RO removed chromium(III) very efficiently (99.83%) and with lower but appreciable yields the other three constituents of liquid effluent. …
Special task force tea-ms of the Pollution Co-ntrol Board inspected 23 hospitals on Tuesday in Hyderabad. Ninety-six hospitals with 100 beds or more have been targeted for inspection this week. None of the hospitals inspected had valid au-thorisation to operate from the PCB. Neither did they have an efflue-nt treatment …
The textile dyeing and washing industry plays an important role in the economical growth as well as the environmental sectors of Bangladesh. The textile dyeing industries has been condemned as being one of the world’s most offenders in terms of pollution. There are many dyeing industries in Bangladesh which are …
Tirupur, the textile knitwear hub of India discharges about 100 MLD of dyestuff effluents with high salt content and multi colored effluents from as early as 1990s. It flanks and pollutes the Noyyal river course rendering it as a virtual effluent course as rainfall is hardly for 15 days only …
Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) Chairman K S Pannu in a press statement on Sunday claimed that following the stringent directions by the board that came with warnings of strict action in case of non-compliance, electroplating units in Ludhiana and Jalandhar had started sending industrial waste to the tune of …
A laboratory scale hybrid-UASB reactor was used for the treatment of sugar industry waste water fabricated from acrylic pipe of 100 mm external diameter and 90 mm internal diameter.
Raids conducted by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on 68 electroplating industries in Jalandhar and Ludhiana have found 42 of them flouting norms that make it mandatory for industries to ensure waste is treated at the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Ludhiana. PPCB Chairman K S Pannu said …
GRAPEFRUIT or chakotra is widely used in bodywashes and gels. But its peel finds limited use. Now, Indian researchers have shown the peel can be effectively used to filter methylene blue, a dye which is used to colour silk and cotton and is the main ingredient of the textile industry …
CAG says Coal India also lagging in corporate social responsibility and effluent treatment Coal India is running 191 mines without any environmental clearance, the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) said in a report on the company, which says delays in green clearances has severely hit its output. “Out of 239 …
At AstraZeneca we are proactively addressing the problem of pharmaceuticals entering the environment as a result of our manufacturing discharges (Nature 476, 265; 2011). (Correspondence)
Following the commissioning of Tertiary treatment plant at IOCL, Haldia, Doshion Limited has changed the outlook of the petrochem industry towards waste water management. One of its kind in the world, this plant recycles waste water to feed high pressure boiler thus nullifying the myth that waste can't be as …
At least 35 persons fell ill, after they came in contact of chlorine gas that leaked from the closed BHEL’s water treatment plant situated right in front of the State Assembly building on Monday night. The victims have been admitted to JP Hospital where their condition is reportedly stable. Two …
Question asked by Nnarahari Mahato and Nripendra Nath Roy on Installation of pollution control equipment by sugar mills and industry. (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)
