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 …
The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT)-developed organic waste-to-biogas system is witnessing significant interest from various quarters. Developed by the IICT Bioengineering & Environmental Sciences (BEES) division here, the one-tonne capacity organic waste anaerobic gas lift reactor (AGR), has been licensed to Hyderabad-based Ahuja Engineering Services, which has installed the …
The Coimbatore Corporation could go in for an overhaul of the solid waste management system. According to sources, the overhaul would be the result of its simmering feud with the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Limited, which manages the second collection and waste processing in the Vellalore yard. The Corporation …
In 2009, the Erode Municipal Corporation had set up an organic manure manufacturing facility. But, the project to recycle waste from the district has failed to benefit farmers of Erode and surrounding areas. Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangam, organizing secretary, Logusamy C, said, "I am aware that there is a facility that …
Gurgaon is considered the growth engine for Haryana and one of the most rapidly urbanising cities in India. This brings with it the challenges associated with urbanisation, among which are generation of large quantities of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and its disposal. The problem is further compounded with multiple civic …
The paper uses the case of the waste sector to illustrate the co-benefits associated with certain typologies of climate change mitigation projects, provide suggestions for their quantification and monetization, and draw recommendations for the design of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), including the role of government. The CDM has been …
Management of solid or liquid wastes in rural areas is much easier than in urban areas due to the fact that there are no highly contaminated industrial wastes. In rural areas, most of the wastes can be safely reused for beneficial purposes with limited resources. Further, in rural areas there …
The special armed police (SAP) force's quarters in Peroorkada has become self-sufficient in waste management with the installation of an aerobic compost unit, modeled on Thumboormuzhi model compost unit. This waste management unit is the first-of-its-kind in a residents' association. Additional director general of police B Sandhya inaugurated the aerobic …
She has been an inexorable force in sustaining the battle against litter. From galvanizing the Walled City residents to give up plastic to turning Khanpur apartments into a near zero-waste zone, Phani Trivedi has been striving to make the society better. Now, the city-based entrepreneur is inspiring guests of Pravasi …
The Punjab government had come out with a legislation to tackle the menace of stubble burning in the state a few years ago. But it failed to yield the desired results. The burning of straw is going on unabated in various districts of the Malwa belt. The Moga administration recently …
Nagpur: Expressing grave concern over jump in the number of deaths due to dengue, Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked Nagpur Municipal Corporation's (NMC) deputy director health Milind Ganvir to remain personally present during the next hearing a week later. A division bench of justices Bhushan Gavai …
For start-ups, there’s money in the dust bin. Mohammed Dawood S, 27, slaps on his gloves and digs through layers of compost-in-the-making to show me his earthworms. They’re pleasantly plump and feasting on the collected decomposing organic waste of apartments and hotels in MRC Nagar, an affluent locality in south …
In an attempt to reduce the amount of ‘nirmalya’ waste reaching the dumping grounds, the BMC has started a waste segregation and composting project after the Ganpati Visarjan. G/ North ward (Dadar) ward has converted a 2,000-sqm defunct sewerage operation plot at Dharavi for the project. Around 35 metric tonnes …
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which is setting up eight wet waste processing units, does not seem to have made much headway in achieving waste segregation at source. The Karnataka High Court had directed BBMP to open garbage processing units at nine places in the city at the earliest. A …
The high court has directed UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to collect sample of Gomti river's water and furnish the test report before it within a month. The court wants to know whether the water is fit for consumption. The matter will next be heard after a month. A division …
The solid waste being collected from the Dharamsala Municipal Council is being disposed of in an unscientific manner despite the fact that the council is spending lakhs for the purpose. The solid waste is being dumped at the site earmarked for the purpose on the Dharamsala-Chari road. As per the …
Continuous dumping of garbage in landfills will turn them into toxic emission site. Toxic gases tend to envelope vast area via speeding winds, and changing landfill sites is no solution, scientists warned. Organic waste, when dumped unscientifically, decomposes owing to the presence of anaerobic bacteria. Decomposition over a long time …
The trucks start rolling in before sunrise. Dozens of them, each tipping out tonnes of food waste, grass cuttings and foliage. A month from now this organic waste will leave here in the form of rich compost, as fine as sand. Here, in Vacaville, an hour by road north of …
As the debate over how the City should dispose of its waste rages and residents of Mandur village protest against dumping of trash in their neighbourhood, it is important to note that almost 55-60 per cent of all waste generated is by homes, when compared with markets, restaurants, commercial premises, …
PRESS RELEASE Anlarop has acquired equity interest in the W2E Technologies Corp. The company focuses on a completely innovative waste-to-energy technology named Organic Cavitator, dedicated to municipal waste and any kind of organic waste which will aid minimizing the evergrowing decline of the planet earth through toxic amounts of refuse …
Deep soils can contain long-buried stocks of organic carbon which could, through erosion, agriculture, deforestation, mining and other human activities, contribute to global climate change. "There is a lot of carbon at depths where nobody is measuring," said Erika Marin-Spiotta, assistant professor of geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the …
