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 …
Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford. Keeping in view this difficulty, the Government has tried to …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that the judicial process cannot be used for fixing the lifespan for landfill sites in Haryana. Acting on a public interest litigation, the Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Hemant Gupta has asserted: So long as the …
Point sources such as landfills can release high concentrations of pollutant into the groundwater because of migration of leachate from its bottom, which is generated primarily as a result of precipitation falling on an active landfill surface, leaching out the potential organic and inorganic contaminants from landfilled waste and discharging …
Mumbai The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to help 13 municipal councils in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in the scientific disposal of waste produced by these smaller towns. The decision was taken in a meeting on March 17, chaired by Director of Municipal administration and attended …
Court ban may not solve biomedical waste problem NEW hospitals, clinics and healthcare facilities will not be sanctioned in Mumbai, for the time being. This follows a ban imposed by the Bombay High Court, on February 26. The court passed the order on a public interest petition after the city …
Banners..Banners and more Banners. Just look around and that is what you see. We Sri Lankans are famous for banners. Not only in the heart of Colombo City but in the outskirts as well. True it's irritating at times but banners have become part and parcel of our daily life. …
Mumbai The Centre has cleared a garbage processing and disposal project at the Kanjurmarg landfill site, paving the way for the BMC to scientifically decompose 4,000 metric tonne of waste a day in the 65-hectare-plot. The civic administration had been facing problems in getting approval for the project owing to …
THRISSUR: Laloor Malineekarana Virudha Samara Samiti has threatened to launch direct action to stop the construction of the secured landfill at the municipal solid waste treatment plant at Laloor in the town, if the Corporation does not stop the construction immediately. In a statement issued here, the secretary of the …
Water contamination level at the two-landfill sites, where solid waste of the city is dumped, has shot more than 500 times than the acceptable level, raising questions about the government
Though the government has banned polythene bags in the city, it has not yet come up with a better environment-friendly alternative. Recently, some newspapers published articles where the government is asking people to suggest an alternative to plastic bags. Where paper bag is considered as one of the alternatives, it …
Differences in foliage tissue concentration of elements were assessed for Prosopis juliflora, Calotropis gigantia and Ipomoea fistulosa growing on abandoned fly ash and a control soil. In general, plants from the fly ash exhibited reduced concentrations of N, K, Ca, Mg, S and Mn while elevated trace element concentration in …
Disposal facilities are not the final solution, but are good business as long as subsidized India generates 8.14 million tonnes of hazardous industrial waste in a year, according to cpcb. Of this, at least 350,000 tonnes have to be incinerated. However, the capacity of the tsdfs in the country to …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests is implementing Capacity Building for Industrial Pollution Management Project with the objective to support the development of institutional and methodological framework for implementing of pilots for rehabilitation of highly polluted sites resulting from rapid industrialization. Ministry of Environment and Forests, under this Project has …
TIRUCHI: A Rs.70-crore-integrated solid waste management programme has been planned for the Tiruchi Corporation and the Municipalities of Manapparai, Thuvakudi and Kulithalai. A detailed project report (DPR) has been prepared by Community Consulting India Private Ltd, a consultant commissioned by the Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd (TNUIFSL). TNUIFSL …
Thane residents say no to waste tax RESIDENTS of Thane city are not willing to pay tax for the garbage that goes out of their homes each day. The Thane Municipal Corporation in November 2008 had proposed a nominal solid waste tax for scientific disposal of garbage. The target was …
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is …
SOUMEN BHATTACHARJEE The pond that was being filled up. Picture by Amit Datta An anonymous complaint has saved a pond spread over 15 cottahs in Narayantala (West). The letter to state fisheries minister Kironmoy Nanda last month led to a joint inquiry by officials of his department and Rajarhat-Gopalpur municipality. …
LONDON - What we throw away could soon be used to power our cars, if projects to produce ethanol from commercial waste are ramped up. Some companies are exploring the environmental and financial benefits of putting waste to good use and are developing technology to produce bioethanol. Magazine paper company …
The Love Canal is a rectangular 16-acre, 10-ft deep chemical waste landfill situated in a residential neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. This seriously contaminated site first came to public attention in 1978. No studies have examined mortality in the former residents of the Love Canal neighborhood (LC). The aim …
NEW DELHI: After spending Rs 132 crore to build the ultra-modern abattoir at Ghazipur, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Shiela Dikshit government on Wednesday were red flagged by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the Supreme Court for breaching environmental rules. The abattoir, which is yet …
