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 second edition of its groundbreaking 2012 report, the NRDC’s Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill provides updated statistics on the environmental, economic and social impacts, analyzes areas of progress at the government, business and consumer levels in …
The Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers (2016-17), present this Thirty Ninth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Thirty Fourth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers (2016-17) on the subject 'Implementation of Policy on …
Parliament has approved a Forty-Eight-Point-85 Million US Dollar agreement between the Government of Ghana and the African Development Fund to finance the Greater Accra Sustainable Sanitation and Livelihood Improvement project. The project is to improve the socio-economic well-being and health standards of residents living within the Greater Accra Metropolitan area. …
The High Court accepted recommendations of this expert committee report on long term action plan for waste management for Delhi and asked the municipal corporations of Delhi (MCDs) to submit waste management rules within two weeks. Delhi High Court vide its order dated 28.06.2017 in case Gauri Grover v. Government …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Mathura Cantonment Board to comply with its order and pay Rs 10 lakh as environmental compensation for causing pollution in the temple town and river Yamuna. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar asked the cantonment board to deposit the …
NEW DELHI: Noting that Delhi generated over 14,000 tonnes of garbage a day, the National Green Tribunal has rapped the Delhi government for lack of infrastructure to deal with "mountain dumps" of decaying garbage at various landfill sites in the city. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar …
Activities such as segregation, composting, refuse-derived fuel (RFD) making and setting up of waste-to-energy plants up to 15 megawatt capacity at existing landfill sites, don't require green clearance, the Union environment and forests ministry has said. This is likely to reduce the time taken for setting up of such plants …
Improving solid waste management is crucial for countering public health impacts of uncollected waste and environmental impacts of open dumping and burning. This practical reference guide introduces key concepts of integrated solid waste management and identifies crosscutting issues in the sector, derived mainly from field experience in the technical assistance …
After analyzing the Environmental Status of 88 Industrial Clusters selected in the country, Central Pollution Control Board in consultation with the Ministry of Environment & Forests has identified 43 critically polluted industrial clusters based on Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI). Out of 43 critically polluted industrial clusters, Najafgarh Drain Basin …
PANJIM: To protect people living in areas around landfill sites from health hazards, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed the State Urban Development Department to notify buffer zones for solid waste processing and disposal facilities treating more than five tonnes per day (TPD) of waste. In fresh guidelines …
From syringes and television sets strewn on its beaches to brimming landfills, Hong Kong is struggling to keep pace with a growing waste problem in one of the world's most densely populated cities. Landfills in the global financial hub of 7 million people are nearly full as the volume of …
Authorities in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have started disbursement of compensation to persons affected by a deadly landslide that hit the country in March this year. The Voice of America’s (VOA) Amharic service reports that over $4 million is being disbursed adding that funds were raised from private and government …
PUNE: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday approved handing over of 19.9 hectares of forest land in Pimpri Sandas village, where Pune solid waste will be scientifically treated. The land will be handed over to the Pune Municipal Corporation, the tweet by CM's office stated. The proposal related to the …
DURBAN - Toxicology experts hired by EnviroServ have said in a report that they could not rule out that exposure to the fumes hanging over the Upper Highway region posed no health risk. However they doubted the fumes caused cancer. The Infotox team, led by chemical toxicology and human risk …
DURBAN - More than a dozen doctors, specialists and schoolteachers have come out in support of the Upper Highway Air (UHA) court bid to shut EnviroServ’s landfill site in Shong-weni. In their affidavits, they have added their voices to the mounting allegations that the landfill emits “toxic fumes”. EnviroServ workers …
The Waste Transfer Station will help the transfer of the about 3000 tonnes of waste generated daily. Zoomlion Company Limited and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), on Thursday, commissioned the Zoompak Achimota Waste Transfer Station to assist the transfer of the about 3000 tonnes of waste daily generated in the …
Questions have been raised about methodology adopted in Swachh Survekshan Report 2017. Instead of encouraging sustainable practices like segregation at source and recycle and reuse, the survey seems to have rewarded cities that are focussing on collection of unsegregated waste and transporting it to landfills.
Durban - About 650 truckloads of contaminated liquid from the Shongweni landfill is being moved to another site, probably in Joburg, as it was part of the cause of the noxious smell in the Upper Highway and could not be pumped into the sea. The liquid, called leachate, drains from …
Urban India is now the world's third largest garbage generator. But the amount of waste generated is not as much of an issue as the fact that over 45 million tonnes (or 3 million trucks worth) of garbage is untreated and disposed of by municipal authorities each year in an …
Waste management company EnviroServ have been barred from dumping at their Shongweni landfill site by the Durban High Court. The ruling comes after civic body Upper Highway Air‚ which has campaigned to have the dump shut down over a malodour in the area‚ brought the application before the court. They …
