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 Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is all set to use separate vehicles to collect disposable and non-disposal waste from the streets. “We are preparing to pick disposable and non-disposable wastes separately from the streets,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of the Environment Management Division at the KMC. “We will prepare …
Signalling the end of the impasse over the Vadavathoor dumping yard issue, the representatives of Vijayapuram grama panchayat and Kottayam Municipality will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Saturday. The district administration on Friday managed to bring both the parties together for a discussion on the issue. This was …
Experts Suggest Implementation Of The Project Through Clean Kerala Co At a time when the cash-strapped city corporation is struggling to identify suitable projects to avail funds from the Jawaharlal Nehru National Renewal Mission (JNNURM), experts have suggested the setting up of a model solid waste treatment unit at Brahmapuram. …
More than 30 five-star hotels in the Capital expressed their commitment to preserve the environment and have agreed to comply with the ‘Green Hotel Guidelines’. A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Delhi Government’s Department of Environment and 32 five-star hotels on Monday. According to the MoU, the hotels …
800 kgs of Vermi-Compost (organic manure) prepared from municipal waste at Solid Waste Management (Vermi- Composting) Project at Thandapani, Sunderbani of district Rajouri was put on sale for the general public as District Development Commissioner, Saugat Biswas formally inaugurated the project today. The fully functional project is a first of …
Solid waste collected by the Dharamsala Municipal Council is being disposed of in an unscientific manner despite the fact that the civic body is spending lakhs of rupees for the purpose. The solid waste is being dumped at the site earmarked for the purpose on the Dharamsala-Chari road. As per …
A waste company has been fined £105,000 after admitting contaminating ground water in Sunderland. Biffa Waste Services admitted five charges, brought by the Environment Agency, concerning the failure of systems to prevent pollution. Leachate, formed during the decomposition of organic waste, was found to have leaked from a landfill. The …
What you toss out as organic waste from your homes may feed gardens! In a novel effort, a youngster in Chennai has created an equipment that converts organic waste into manure in 21 days. Abdul Kani, son of railway employee, D Khaleel, finished his MBA at 2005 from Indian School …
Study shows high leachate levels remain untreated The haphazard dumping of garbage at various landfills outside the City has taken a toll on the health of residents in surrounding villages. Leachate, a toxic fluid which is often discharged from decomposing urban organic waste has been responsible for the contamination of …
Using the garbage of Dhaka city, the government for the first time is going to generate 50 megawatt of electricity to add to the national grid. KM Mozammel Hoq, additional secretary of the local government division of LGRD and Cooperatives ministry, said they had sought opinions of different ministries concerned …
Discussions on to set up pyrolysis plant The Corporation, still in the dark about how to dispose of the organic waste generated in the city with the Vilappilsala plant remaining closed, has some hope on the plastic waste disposal front. The civic body has arrived at an understanding with the …
Corporates and citizens come together to segregate and recycle waste Smoking mountains of garbage are the new normal for India’s urban sprawls, sticking out like dirty reminders of a consumption culture gone awry. But from amidst the stink, hope of a cleaner future is sprouting in the southern states. The …
Lack of fencing in a portion has made corporation's job very difficult Two years back, the Corporation embarked on an ambitious project of providing scientific cover for decades-old garbage at its Vellaikkal dumping yard. It helped the Corporation from preventing environmental pollution, especially groundwater pollution. Under the project, over 10 …
Recycling could be the new mantra for industries in the State as policy makers and experts stressed on the need to develop technologies to reuse waste to realise the ‘Vision 2023’ goal of sustainable industrial production in Tamil Nadu. Speaking at a day-long seminar on ‘Waste to Wealth – Entrepreneurial …
KOCHI: Expressing concern over the increasing incidents of fish deaths in the Periyar River, environmentalists brushed aside the claims made by Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) that the fish had died due to oxygen starvation. “It is common for the levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) in the water to …
Some entrepreneurs across the country are building businesses based on the belief that garbage -- once destined to rot in a landfill -- can be repurposed into profitable products. Americans produced about 250 million tons of trash in 2010, recycling and composting about 34 percent of that total, according to …
Rotting Veggies Greet Buyers; Market Not Cleaned In Months New Delhi: A visit to Okhla sabzi mandi can make your stomach churn. An unbearable stench given out by rotting vegetables welcomes you to the mandi, which is the distribution point for most markets in south Delhi. If that doesn’t put …
Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red. The party’s latest posters asking for power to be generated from waste has drawn the ire of NGO Chintan, which says BJP’s agenda is anti-public. “The party has not yet understood the basic scientific concept of …
The Oleena Mahila Samajam and Green Kerala Bioscience, both Kozhikode-based organisations, have introduced a novel method for scientific organic-waste processing with the technical support of JMS Bio Tech, Mysore. Oleena chairperson T. Sujatha told presspersons here on Wednesday that the new organic solution, named OS1, converted organic waste to manure …
While it seems logical that many restaurants have already begun to reap the benefits of installing onsite worm composting operations, airports may not be the first place people would think of to have such systems in place. The Charlotte Douglas International Airport will change that fact when they open a …
