Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
KOCHI: If all goes well, Kochiites will soon be able to savour quality-rich organic vegetables. ‘Zero Waste and Safe-to-Eat Vegetables’, a major project by the district administration in association with District Agri- Horticultural Society and the Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council (VFPCK), will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy …
SHILLONG: Open dumping and throwing of garbage is a common sight in Shillong city and there are fears garbage has become so overwhelming that there might even be an outbreak of serious diseases. Environmental concerns has brought at least 19 NGOs on a common platform to begin with cleaning up …
Finance Minister K.M. Mani has proposed a two pronged approach to address the state’s worsening waste management crisis with an allocation of Rs 100 crore each for source level waste treatment plants and centralised high tech waste management plants in the state annual budget for 2012-13. It has been proposed …
Study To Be Commissioned Ahead Of Upcoming UNCRD Conference Ahmnedabad: After carrying out an intensive drive for efficient garbage disposal, city’s civic bosses are now working on a project for a waste-free Ahmedabad. The project for preparing a roadmap for this purpose will be commissioned by the United Nations Centre …
A HISTORY OF POLLUTION? Threaten To Leave If Expansion Ban Is Not Revoked Bharuch:Industrialists and officials of the Ankleshwar Industrial Association say the industrial belt is still listed among the critical zones despite the fact that the pollution level here has reduced to a large extent. If the ban on …
The government is working towards achieving zero waste stage in residential habitats in urban and rural areas. The Cabinet decision on Friday to provide subsidy to residential flats to set up waste treatment units is part of the strategy. However, waste treatment would become obligatory by law or guidelines in …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Vilappilsala waste treatment plant will be closed down and a zero waste management project will be implemented to deal with wastes generated in the Corporation limits, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Wednesday. “But the location of the new facility is yet to be decided. Reports stating …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Vilappilsala waste treatment plant will be closed down and a zero waste management project will be implemented to deal with wastes generated in the Corporation limits, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Wednesday. “But the location of the new facility is yet to be decided. Reports stating …
Carry bags to cost up to Rs.10; paper and cloth bags manufactured by self-help groups to be made available The City Corporation is planning to increase the price of plastic carry bags to discourage their sale and use in the city. Mayor K. Chandrika said here on Sunday that depending …
Chennai The Tamil Nadu government announced on Friday a R127.40-crore interest-free loan to 15 common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) situated at Tirupur to enable 700-odd dyeing units to attain zero liquid discharge (ZLD). The dyeing units were forced to shut down by the Madras High Court in January owing to …
The Manickapurampudur Common Effluent Treatment (CETP) has forwarded a requisition to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to allow the plant to operate and give sufficient time to erect reverse osmosis (RO) system to ensure zero liquid discharge in the dyeing effluent treatment process. Closure order The CETP's director …
Government has given top priority for execution of the much sought-after Sabarimala Master Plan with the sole aim of ensuring better basic facility at the pilgrim centre where as many as the State’s population congregate during a short span of two months every year, said Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy. The …
Profit-sharing with tribal people and auctioning of mineral concessions are not the only landmark changes proposed in the new mining Bill. The Bill also envisages ushering in a regime of royalty concessions for the first time in the country. The proposal to dole out concessional royalty rates to companies in …
A green building policy proposed to be brought by the State government will aim at reduction of energy consumption of existing buildings by 15 per cent and new buildings by 30 per cent. Public Works Minister V. K. Ebrahim Kunju announced plans for drawing up the policy in the Assembly …
Minister for Forests K.B. Ganesh Kumar has called upon the people to cultivate an eco-friendly waste disposal culture without littering waste in public places. The Minister was inaugurating a year-long ‘Waste-free Kerala' campaign of the State government in the district at Pandalam on Sunday. He said creating unpolluted environment, public …
The Sabarimala high-power committee has decided to submit a proposal to the government for implementing a zero-waste project at Sabarimala. This was decided at a meeting of the committee chaired by its chairman K. Jayakumar here on Tuesday. Cleaning up The project aims at cleaning Sabarimala, Pampa, and the traditional …
The district panchayat will, on Wednesday, launch a comprehensive project with the objective of making Pathanamthitta waste-free. At a press conference here on Tuesday, Babu George, panchayat president, said the project, called Zero-Waste Pathanamthitta, would be implemented in association with the 54 grama panchayats, eight block panchayats, and three municipalities …
KOCHI: At a time when the residents of Fort Kochi are choked with the garbage heaps, the Corporation is sitting over `17.20 lakh sent to the local body as a part of the payment for its implementation. The `43-lakh Fort Kochi Zero Waste project was announced by the Corporation with …
COIMBATORE: On a 450-acre campus where nearly 8,000 people live, at least one tonne of food getting wasted is not unusual. But what Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham does with that waste is certainly unusual. And, the different way in which the food waste is converted to wealth is also extended to …
Ever heard of bottled cooking gas, green diesel or bio-CNG? And that too produced from waste generated in the city? It might sound shocking, but the next generation of clean fuel technologies can potentially lead to zero-waste clean habitats by converting waste into fuel. Growdiesel, in collaboration with the Maharashtra …
