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 …
The stench of uncollected refuse in the streets of Beirut is a stark reminder of the crisis of government afflicting Lebanon, where politicians divided by local and regional conflicts have been unable to agree on where to dump the capital's rubbish. Mounting piles of garbage festering in the summer heat …
KOLHAPUR: Top villagers have decided to approach the Supreme Court over the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) recent decision over allowing Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) to use the abandoned stone quarry as landfill site for solid waste management. The quarry comes under the Top gram panchayat's limits. The gram panchayat had …
Quepem: Industrial waste, including some potentially hazardous types, is being dumped in blatant violation of the law for quite some time on a large scale in the abandoned laterite stone quarries at Pedamoll, Sirvoi. The waste comprises fibre, plastic, acid, other rejects and even medical waste, locals alleged. The abandoned …
KOLHAPUR: After receiving stiff opposition from the villagers since the last two years, the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) can finally dump garbage at the disputed Top quarry site. The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed the civic body to construct a six-ft compound wall along …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of the Village Panchayat of Top Vs The State of Maharashtra dated 07/07/2015 regarding allotment of land for Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), waste landfill site within limits of village Top, particularly, within area of Gaothan.
NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has faced severe criticism and also incurred huge financial losses due to failure of Hanjer Biotech Energies Private Ltd in operating and maintaining the solid waste treatment plant, which also led to environment pollution. Still, the civic body passed on various emoluments to the …
NAVI MUMBAI: In a determined fight to close polluting units at a quarry site in Turbhe, close to the dog center on the landfill site, NMMC has locked horns with the MPCB. The health department has shot off a letter to the regional officer, MPCB on Monday for immediate action. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 01/07/2015 regarding shifting the West Boragaon landfill site used for dumping municipal solid waste (MSW) of Guwahati city. The petitioner Rohit Choudhury has said that the dumping …
The national parks are pristine emblems of the American wilderness, attracting millions of visitors from around the world. But there’s an unintended consequence of their popularity: those visitors generate more than 100 million pounds of garbage a year, most of which ends up in landfills. Now, as the National Park …
It was revealed that the PCMC had asked the NEERI to submit a document about buffer zone at the Punawale site. Strange as it might sound, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) plans to take steps to reduce the buffer zone of the Punawale landfill site even before it is commissioned. …
The state government’s decision to reduce the buffer zone around the landfill site of Moshi in Pimpri-Chinchwad was prompted by the report submitted by Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Limited (NEERI). However, documents accessed by The Indian Express under the Right to Information (RTI) show the decision goes against the …
The ongoing protests at the Terra Firma landfill site near Doddaballapur over the excess dumping of the City’s waste much beyond the permissible level have added to garbage woes here. With heaps of waste lying uncleared, many areas have started feeling the heat of the protest. Not only the slums, …
A new research study has called for an overhaul of the way mobile devices are manufactured and contracted, in order to stop the harmful effects on the environment caused by current business models. Researchers from the University of Surrey analysed studies on the lifespan of mobile devices, from manufacture, use …
Starting June-end, the mounds of garbage at East Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill will be put to use when the waste-to-energy plant there is commissioned. The plant will produce 12 MW of power by using 1,300 tonnes per day (TPD) of municipal solid waste. According to a spokesperson of Infrastructure Leasing & …
It appears that the sky is the limit for Delhi’s growing mountains of trash. The Capital’s three sanitary landfills continue to grow by over 8,000 tonnes per day (TPD) way past their recommended capacities. Municipal corporations that operate the landfills at Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalswa have been unable to shut …
Water level in Hussainsagar has gone down by two metres ever since the government said it was cleaning the lake and not de-watering it in multiple court representations, environmental groups said on Monday. "In the courts, the government has always responded by saying that they are only repairing the sluices. …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) to submit draft measures and plan prepared for scientific closure of the existing dump site at Bhanpur on July 16. This was after Subhash C Pandey, applicant, pointed out that care must be taken while carrying out closure work to …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune bench, has issued a bailable warrant to Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) expert members Raghunath Dhume and Dr Savita Kerkar, in connection with a complaint filed by the Cavelossim Villager’s Forum against the Cavelossim Panchayat. The bailable warrant was issued in the tune …
The recent ban on dumping and burning waste in the open has had an unintended and dangerous consequence - unscientific landfill within city limits. The National Green Tribunal's order on burning of waste following set norms, too, has had no impact on the way authorities dispose municipal solid waste (MSW). …
A comprehensive report on Israel’s treatment of hazardous waste recommends imposing a fee on the companies that produce such waste to cover the costs of its disposal. It also recommends splitting the government company that handles the waste into two parts, and enabling it to export waste for recycling. The …
