Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Bhopal Municipal Corporation Vs Subhash C Pandey & Others dated 07/04/2025. The affidavit of compliance was filed by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation regarding implementation of the suggestions of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). The SC granted time to the …
To promote the market for city compost in India, the Government of India came out with a fixed subsidy under its policy on promotion for city compost. But this failed due to lack of implementation and has seen very dispersed stakeholder participation. There is clearly a demand for city compost …
To promote the market for city compost in India, the Government of India came out with a fixed subsidy under its policy on promotion for city compost. But this failed due to lack of implementation and has seen very dispersed stakeholder participation. There is clearly a demand for city compost …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the municipal corporations to submit an action taken report on the steps taken to manage waste after a news report claimed that water is being contaminated in the unauthorised habitations near Bhalswa, Gazipur and Okhla landfills in the city. A bench headed by NGT …
The Dhapa dumping ground has been burning for nearly a month and the thick smoke billowing out of the site is making the city’s polluted air even more toxic. The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has written to the pollution control board to help it take measures to contain the emission without …
Although summer is yet to set in, city's largest landfill site at Deonar has experienced its first fire incident of this summer on Thursday. This is just the beginning, fire episodes at the garbage yard may become frequent in the days to come as the days get warmer. Yet, the …
Nepra builds a supply chain that connects waste generators/collectors to recyclers Sandeep Patel smiles every time he sees the women in his workforce sporting new silver ornaments. And as his men workers take more holidays and come back refreshed, eager to take a stab afresh at sorting garbage, Sandeep knows …
This means as much as half of the trash generated by more than 2,500 hazardous-waste-generating industrial units in the State gets buried in landfills. HYDERABAD: Of the 2.8 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of hazardous waste generated each year in Telangana, as much as 1.4 lakh MT are landfillable, according to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Kamboj & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 23/04/2019 regarding solid waste management in Gurgaon, Haryana. The NGT expressed its displeasure at the "incapacity, incompetence and unwillingness of the Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon to perform its duty to …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Haryana chief secretary to submit an action taken report and take punitive action against the officers for failing to stop leachate from the Bandhwari landfill site. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said this is a classic instance of …
1,500 families plan to back anyone promising clean air. Vijayawada: About 1,500 families living in Perni Nani Nagar, on the outskirts of district headquarters Machilipatnam, say they won’t cast their vote until at least one of the candidates promises them that their long-pending demand to shift the garbage dump from …
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) wrote to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Tuesday, calling upon it to allot plots of land at Sonia Vihar and Ghonda Gujran to the corporation to be used as landfill sites. The EDMC had petitioned the National Green Tribunal (NGT) regarding handing over …
NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) to resolve disputes at the administrative level while disposing of a plea by the civic body seeking land to manage garbage at Ghazipur landfill site. The green court said the issue of availability or suitability of the …
Nairobi Metropolitan Service Improvement Project (NaMSIP) has obtained an environmental licence to build Mitumbiri Sanitary Landfill in the county, the High Court heard. Environment and Land Court Judge Grace Kemei was told that Nema had submitted a permit for the Sh1 billion solid waste management project, to be established in …
A major fire broke out in February 2015, which was put out by firemen after a 10-day battle. Since then, every year, between January and March, several fires have been reported at the landfill site. A minor fire broke out on Thursday at the Deonar dumping ground, the city’s largest …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 22/02/2019 regarding permission to set up Waste to Energy Plant at the Kuberpur landfill site at Agra. Supreme Court directs National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur and the …
Step taken to ensure proper disposal of garbage The Municipal Council, Bahadurgarh, has chalked out a plan to ensure proper disposal of garbage at the landfill site located on the Badli road near Soldha village in Bahadurgarh town here. It has not only decided to install closed circuit television (CCTV) …
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee in collaboration with a leading environment think-tank will undertake a pilot study to monitor the pollution level of Delhi-NCR dynamically and identify specific pollutants to take action in case of sudden spike of pollution, officials said Wednesday. The study on Ambient Air Source Apportionment in …
China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling “bases” by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its resources after extending a ban on foreign trash imports. A long manufacturing boom has saddled China with millions of tonnes of waste, much of which …
CHANDIGARH: Waste dumped in landfill sites is contaminating surrounding groundwater in the Tricity, according to a PGI study published recently in an international journal. Scientists fear non-segregation and unregulated dumping of the garbage has deteriorated the quality with the passage of time, an alarming sign. Experts say that once the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shri V. Eswaran, Coimbatore Vs. The District Collector, Coimbatore & Others dated 03/10/2018 regarding dumping of solid waste in the Vellalore dump yard and landfill site falling with the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation area which, as per the applicant, has been …
