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 …
A scrapyard in the southern Johor state of Malaysia was recently burnt by angry villagers. The villagers alleged that government officials had failed to take any action against Sun Enterprise, the scrapyard, that was found to be polluting the environment. They said the company had been burning their wastes in …
The Delhi high court has issued a showcause notice to six major hospitals of the city because of their inability to maintain their incinerators, which has lead to improper and unsafe disposal of medical wastes. The notices were issued after the bench went through a report of the Central Pollution …
alarming levels of radioactivity have been detected in two rivers near the Siberian Chemical Complex, Russia's largest nuclear site, according to a usa nuclear watchdog group. The Government Accountability Project said that more than enough radioactivity to meet the world's electrical power demand had been found in the Tom and …
Though disposing of radioactive waste as well as military activity in and around Antarctica is banned, the continent is not free from threats. Long distance dispersion of radioactive particles has put its marine life at risk. According to marine biologist Franceso Nonnis Marzano of the University of Parma in Italy …
untreated effluents and domestic sewage discharged into the Ballandur lake in Bangalore heaped up as froth and spilt over to the bridge connecting the village to the Ring Road on October 22. The frothy foam of highly toxic wastes bewildered the villagers so much that they thronged the area to …
Waste and pollution have led to critical health problems in various cities of Ethiopia. This was stated by the Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society ( ewnhs ). Stephen Spawls, vice president of ewnhs, believes that fast growing urban population has made matters worse. Spawls said the existing environmental educational …
Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, is facing garbage management crisis. Kathmandu Metropolitan City has stopped dumping garbage in the Guheshori area and it has not been able to identify an alternative location. Therefore, the whole city is littered with all sorts of garbage, including rotten foodstuffs, packaging materials, bones and dismantled building …
two-thirds of the uk 's fish stocks are on the verge of extinction and most of the country's coastal habitats have been destroyed. This was stated in a report of the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf). The reason for this destruction is that for decades, sewage and chemical effluent …
An ecofriendly way of waste disposal is being adopted by China. The country is constructing its largest rubbish-burning power plant in Shanghai. The plant is expected to generate 100,000 megawatts of electricity annually by burning 365,000 tonnes of waste. The project will cost us $30.17 million. The plant will discharge …
The Phewa lake of Pokhra, Nepal, is on the verge of becoming extinct, according to environmentalists. The lake is one of the main tourist attractions of the country. Washing clothes on the banks of the lake at different places, besides direct discharge of sewerage from houses, hotels and restaurants has …
more than 100,887 tonnes of hazardous and potentially hazardous wastes has entered India, in violation of a Supreme Court order. This was stated in a report complied by the Indian unit of Greenpeace, an international pressure group. Greenpeace has compiled the data, based on the government statistics for the year …
In a recent move to put an end to the inopportune methods for disposing municipal solid waste , a division bench of the Supreme Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to start door to door collection of garbage for this purpose. The division bench stated that there …
rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has asked the Union government to verify newspaper reports according to which the government is planning to bury nuclear waste in Thar desert. Down To Earth (Vol 9, No 3) had reported that plans are afoot to dump radioactive waste at Sanawada village near Pokran. …
safe disposal of the medical waste generated by hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centres is very much high on the agenda of Delhi government. A meeting was held under the aegis of A K Walia, Delhi's environment and health minister to deal with problems caused due to improper disposal of …
Three executives and 19 workers of two companies were charged with dumping tons of toxic waste into a river in southern Taiwan. Prosecutors said that the executives could be sentenced to life imprisonment if convicted of attempted murder. They were caught pouring a cancer-causing solvent, dimethyl benzene, into a tributary …
The Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 shall apply to every municipal authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation,, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.
every morning a group of young volunteers cruise the polluted waters of the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar to collect the refuse of the lake dwellers. They go from houseboat to houseboat, collecting garbage and then back to the shore to dispose of this waste. This practice has been a …
