Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Sweeping waste under the carpet is a myopic waste management approach—sustained efforts are required, and it is this that the survekshan should rank in the future. Billed as the world’s largest cleanliness survey, Swachh Survekshan 2019 was recently released by the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA). Indore was …
ZIRAKPUR: The municipal council proposes to take the company operating Lalru’s garbage-processing plant to court for breach of trust, since it had claimed to have sought environmental clearance from Punjab Pollution Control Board but not moved any application. The MC claims that the company misinformed it that it required no …
NAGPUR: Two small cities of the state have been found to be managing their waste better than many bigger Indian cities. Vengurla, a small town in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, was recently awarded by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) for its innovative initiatives in waste management. Also, Vengurla …
NAGPUR:Though Indian cities are spending millions on incentivising waste minimization, they are not aware of the quantity of waste each is generating. According to leading Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain, the country is in a “messy” state because technology to be implemented is decided before looking into the composition of the …
GURUGRAM: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC;) has sought a reply from the principal secretary of the department of forest and environment in Haryana on the Bandhwari waste-to-energy plant. The MoEF order comes two months after green activists lodged a complaint with the ministry alleging that HSPCB, …
GURUGRAM: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has refused to stay the construction of a waste recycling plant in Basai wetland, in response to an application alleging that MCG doesn’t have requisite approvals under the C&D; waste management rules, 2016. “We are of the considered opinion that no further order for …
KOCHI: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday inaugurated the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Brahmapuram Waste-to-Energy(WtE) treatment plant at a function held at the Town Hall here. Addressing the gathering, the CM said the menace posed by mounting plastic refuse and garbage in the state can be tackled to …
MYSURU: Officials of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) have spent the better part of two years running from pillar to post to get clearance for construction of municipal solid waste processing units at Kesare and Rayanakere. Now, after a long wait, the civic agency has finally managed to get clearance …
Speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Managing Delhi’s Solid Waste’ under the Delhi Matters series, SDMC chief engineer Umesh Sachdeva said the plant produces close to 40 metric tonnes of compost per day, but has not managed to find many people willing to use it. The Okhla waste composting plant, …
The much-awaited Solid Waste management Compost Plant at Shishambara here has begun functioning today. The plant intends to solve the waste-management problems of the city, by ensuring that the waste generated is converted into manure. “We were forced to spend money to look for ways for disposing off the waste …
All's well that ends well. The adage goes well with the Ahmedabad civic body, AMC, at this moment. After the just-concluded hit flower show organised by AMC, the civic body has now set an example by showing how to initiate a zero-waste producing process through reuse, recycle and reduce the …
CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh mayor Davesh Moudgil along with municipal commissioner Jitender Yadav and other senior officers visited the new waste to compost unit at the garbage processing plant, GPP Dadumajra on Thursday. Significantly, one of the basic points of Thursday's visit was to ensure proper disposal of the compost after processing …
GURGAON: National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday vacated the stay on the construction of a treatment plant for construction & demolition (C&D;) waste in Basai. The court also directed MCG to ensure that construction work of the plant starts only after all requisite permissions were obtained from all departments concerned, …
GURUGRAM: The residents of villages surrounding Bandhwari staged a protest near the waste treatment plant on Tuesday against the MCG's plan to set up a waste-to-energy plant with the help of a Chinese company in Bandhwari. Demanding relocation of the waste treatment plant, the protesters threatened to go on an …
PUNE: Residents of localities the civic administration has identified for setting up garbage processing plants within the city are strongly opposed to their commissioning in the absence of proper protective measures and foul smell. People of the Ramtekdi area and the units in the Ramtekdi industrial estate were the latest …
SHIMLA: Taking cognizance of the burning of medical waste generated by medical colleges- Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Shimla, and Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital, Tanda, in Kangra, the Himachal Pradesh high court has sought reply from the state government through an affidavit on the issue within …
Panaji: The state-of-the-art solid waste treatment plant at Saligao on Wednesday began supplying surplus power generated by it to the state electricity grid. The plant that handles around 120 tonnes of mixed garbage on a daily basis began supplying power green renewable energyto the grid at 2 pm, Hindustan Waste …
With the deadlock between the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation and the Jaypee Group over the garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra yet to be solved, the MC has now decided to generate power from solid waste at the plant. At present, the Jaypee Group produces refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from solid waste, …
To make municipal services more efficient and weed out corruption in the system, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Ajoy Mehta on Tuesday said the way forward was to place trust in citizens and move towards a system of self certification. This would apply to smaller civic services as well as …
Mumbai's degraded waste at Kanjurmarg will produce electricity from April. The Rs 4.5 crore Guascor engine from Spain, to convert methane gas into electricity, will arrive at the landfill site on March 25 and the project will be commissioned next month. If it succeeds, it will be the city's first …
