Waste Disposal

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding waste disposal in Ghazipur drain, Delhi, 28/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …

Interstate dirty dumpers

Seventy kilometres from Bangalore, a lorry veered off the main road and headed in an unusual direction: towards groundnut fields in Yadagere village of Karnataka's Tumkur district. It stopped at an unsown field in the middle of nowhere. Torches were flashing in the dark. A flurry of activities followed, disturbing …

Law and border

Industries exploit lack of restrictions on sending waste to other states and poor surveillance State pollution control boards are confounded. They cannot handle the growing illegal movement of hazardous waste across states. Reason: there is no stringent regulation in the law books that addresses this issue, so the culprits manage …

Aligarh`s groundwater at risk

more than 80 per cent of the groundwater in Aligarh is susceptible to contamination. A new study shows more than 56 per cent of the city's groundwater resources are at a high risk of pollution and 24 per cent is

Reviewing website

http://ewasteguide.info/ Did you know that the annual amount of waste generated from end-of-life electrical and electronic products is estimated to be a few million tonnes? And many predict that this will double in the coming decades? The data is alarming. At this site under review you can find much more …

Court asks polluting plants in Goa to shut down

the High Court of Bombay at Goa recently asked two industries in Goa to close down their operations. The plants

Why waste a chance?

Something's changing in urban India. Cities are now being redesigned to fend for themselves, become

How green is my School?: a do-it-yourself manual

This is the second edition of the manual and is designed as a self-learning and assessment tool so that teachers can work with students to audit their use of natural resources and to experiment with environment friendly practices. It is a learning programme for building a new generation of people …

GIS based modelling of soil contamination - A threat to agriculture by Dindigul tanneries

In developing country like India greater attention has been focused so far only on the ground water pollution. Unlike water the study on the soil contamination has not been much attended yet. In this background, it becomes necessary to study the soil contamination in Dindigul, where the soil is mostly …

The industry s being conceited

J S Thakur, assistant professor, department of community medicine, pgimer, Chandigarh , is one of the authors of the study,

Activists detained near Bali deported

three activists were detained in Bandung, Indonesia, for campaigning against a waste-to-energy plant. They were arrested the same day the conference of parties to the un's climate change conference started in Bali. The three activists who were deported later were part of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, a network …

Pepsi plant indicted for polluting groundwater in Kerala

pepsi pollutes and it's official now. A recent study by Kerala's groundwater department has traced toxic chemicals in the groundwater at the Pepsi plant in Pudussery panchayat in the arid Palakkad district. The report says the factory has exploited groundwater resources and it can't be allowed to draw more than …

Understanding the 123 deal

The 123 nuclear agreement between India and the us draws its name from an article of the us Atomic Energy Act. It is somewhat coincidental that three reasons are also being listed to justify the deal, or to debunk it. Supporters and critics have hitched their arguments to the deal's …

Radioactive waste in Congolese river

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered residents of Likasi town to stay away from the local river Mura following reports that a large consignment of radioactive material has been illegally dumped in it. Likasi is a large town in the mineral-rich Katanga province and home to …

High ammonia content in Yamuna

the second week of November saw south and central Delhi reeling under a severe water crisis because of high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna at the city's water intake point. It led to a reduction in water supply from two of its water treatment plants

"Lessons in waste disposal from Lahore"

Ata-Ul-Haq is CEO of Green Technology Environmental Corporation, which set up Pakistan's first mega composting plant in Lahore in 2006. He tells Arnab Pratim Dutta that the model adopted for the plant can be replicated across South Asia Why a composting plant for Lahore? Getting this plant up and running …

Implementing integrated solid waste management systems in India: moving towards the regional approach

There are many challenges regarding the safe disposal of municipal solid waste in India. Recent attempts have been concerned with finding ways to provide safe and sanitary disposal for solid waste so that our environment is no longer damaged by polluting, open dumps. This document is intended for decisionmakers who …

In Short News

lipitor patent revoked: Pfizer Inc said on October 29 a German court had revoked the drugmaker's patent covering the active ingredient in its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor. The decision resulted from a patent challenge by generic manufacturers Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd and Basics GmbH, company sources said. The patent expires in …

Kerala: God's disowned country

Ever since he turned a teenager, it had been Pierre Gagne's dream to visit Kerala. He had read it all: in National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast and countless other magazines about the place that was described as among "50 must see destinations of a lifetime". Last week, the 20-year-old from …

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