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 …
Biodegradable plastic water bottles and shopping bags are a false solution to the ubiquitous problem of litter in the oceans, the UN’s top environmental scientist has warned. Most plastic is extremely durable, leading to large plastic debris and “microplastics” to spread via currents to oceans from the Arctic to the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Prakash Chander Kapur & Others Vs Union of India Rep. by its Chief Secretary Union Territory of Puducherry & Others regarding Karuvadikuppam Muncipal Sold Waste (MSW) dumping site in Puducherry dated 05/04/2016. It is stated that dumping …
Kendrapada: Bilasini Nath, 50, a housewife from Dashipur village in Kendrapada district, has been making beautiful baskets, pen stands, cellphone stands, flowers, animals and other items using waste materials for the past two years. She collects used polythene, plastic covers for food packets, cigarette cases and other waste materials and …
The research claimed that many biodegradable products are unlikely to ever fully break down in the ocean, while labelling products as biodegradable could also make people more likely to dispose of them carelessly in the first place. The executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Achim Steiner said: “Recent …
Widespread adoption of products labelled 'biodegradable' will not significantly decrease the volume of plastic entering the ocean or the physical and chemical risks that plastics pose to marine environment, concluded a UN report released. The report, "Biodegradable Plastics and Marine Litter. Misconceptions, Concerns and Impacts on Marine Environments", finds that …
The Delhi Division of Northern Railway is going to set up a first of its kind 'Bio-waste processing plant' at Kishanganj Railway Colony. The proposed bio-waste plant will turn biodegradable waste generated in the colony into compost and even electricity. The plant is expected to process about 1,000 Kg. of …
An eco-friendly firm will launch photodegradable bags in an effort to substitute ecologically-hazardous plastic carry bags here and adjoining districts of Tamil Nadu. SM Green Solutions (SMGS), Chennai, which has entered into a collaboration with GXT Green, United States to market the eco-friendly carry bags in south India, will formally …
Heaps of biodegradable waste would no longer bother Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) as Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) have come to its rescue with a novel technology of converting biodegradable waste into manure. As many as 100 specially designed net-coated buckets called 'Nisarg Doot' reached VMC office on Monday. The …
With the festive season round the corner, the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday passed a series of directions to make sure Yamuna is not choked with hazardous chemicals. It further said that, “the DDA, the municipal corporations, police and Administration of NCT of Delhi would fully co-ordinate with each other …
MUMBAI: In a first for Indian Railways, Central Railway has introduced biodegradable, environment-friendly garbage bags on long distance trains. The linens provided to train passengers come packaged in these light green coloured bags, but once the linens are unpacked, passengers can use the packaging as garbage bags. These environment-friendly disposable …
PATIALA: Researchers at Thapar University, Patiala, claim to have found the key to producing eco-friendly polythene. Due to concerns over its environmental impact, state governments and municipalities across India have been forced to ban use of polythene bags. This may change as the new polythene would be biodegradable, the group …
Care Assam has launched an endeavour, Affordable Waste Management Initiative (AWMI) as an attempt to find solutions to waste management in Guwahati. The core objective is to offer a waste management design to the city in the form of satellite plants which could be easily fabricated by local materials and …
The BBMP on Monday lodged a police complaint against Biocon for dumping chemical waste at the Terra Firma waste-processing unit near Doddaballapur in Bengaluru Rural district. But Biocon maintains the waste is non-hazardous. Villagers living around the Terra Firma unit had protested against the dumping of waste but relented after …
Researchers, including those of Indian-origin, have developed an eco-friendly biodegradable green "herding" agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water. Derived from the plant-based small molecule phytol abundant in the marine environment, the new substance would potentially replace chemical herders currently in use. According …
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 …
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). …
The construction of a semi-aerobic landfill at Kang'oki in Thika, Kiambu county, has begun. The project has been funded by the Swedish embassy, Kiambu government, UN Habitat and the Lands ministry. Governor William Kabogo and UN Habitat Africa director Axumite Gebre-Egziabher visited the construction site on Tuesday. The two said …
PUNE: The civic standing committee on Tuesday approved six small garbage processing units to be set up in Bhavani Peth area. A private company will install four units with a capacity of processing five metric tonne garbage daily and two units with a capacity of three metric tonne. The company …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the Draft Solid Waste Management Rules, 2015 for public comments . These rules shall apply to every urban local body, all statutory towns, outgrowths in urban agglomerations as declared by the registrar general & census commissioner of India, notified areas/notified …
Land bought for segregating waste taken over by revenue department An open well at Poomalaipatti in Ward 22 of Manapparai municipality has been converted into a garbage dumping yard and a large volume of waste plastic, beds, and mats are being thrown into it, posing a health hazard to the …
