Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Karnataka state government signed an MoU on Monday with Netherlands' government for a waste to energy technology which will be utilised to dispose Bengaluru filth. With an investment of Rs 470 crore, the waste to energy project will be utilised to dispose 600 metric tonnes of garbage generated in the …
Waste problem is a problem of finding solutions - approaches and technologies - that can match our pockets and our regulatory and governance abilities India has a huge waste problem - from untreated sewage that is defiling rivers and waterbodies to growing quantities of chemical waste that is seeping into …
Biogas from human waste has the potential to generate electricity for millions of homes while improving health and protecting the environment, a United Nations University institute said on Tuesday. The biogas potentially available from all the human waste in the world would be the equivalent of up to $9.5 billion …
Pulled up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over the messy solid waste management in the capital, the fund-starved Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) has zeroed in on the Rs 42 crore “waste to green energy” project at Bariyal out of the three proposals it has received from private players to …
National Green Tribunal (NGT), western zone bench, has cleared Nagpur Municipal Corporation's (NMC's) municipal solid waste (MSW) to electricity project, thereby paving the way for its execution. NMC had earlier appointed Hanjer, which failed to execute it properly. On directives of NGT, it then appointed Essel Infrastructure, whose rates were …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of State Environment Protection Council Vs .Kannur Municipality & Others dated 14/10/2015 regarding setting up of a waste processing and disposal facility and other requisites for the management of solid wastes, as contemplated under the Municipal Solid Wastes …
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 …
The State Government is taking up measures to address the perennial problem of garbage disposal by setting up 11 waste-to-energy generation plants in collaboration with private companies under Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode across the State. Tenders have already been called and they will finalised by October 10 to identify companies that …
To submit report on Swachh Bharat mission to PM in 10 days The Niti Ayog’s Chief Ministers sub-group of Swachh Bharat Mission has focussed its attention on efficient management of solid and liquid wastes that were posing a major health hazard to people. The sub-group which met under the chairmanship …
Solid waste management has become a burning issue in Jalandhar. As the existing dump is full to the brim and the proposed waste management plant is facing opposition from the locals, waste is being burnt openly at the roadsides. The mass movement initiated by nine villages against the setting up …
An environment friendly battery made from waste material, that can work continuously for 72 hours with no electricity required for its charging, has been developed by a private educational institute here. The 'Fly Ash Battery' developed by Amity University is a novel ash and activated carbon based battery comprising of …
Will process 3 lakh tonnes of garbage at the dumping yard The State government will set up a waste-to-energy garbage disposal unit at Bingipura to dispose nearly three lakh tonnes of accumulated garbage dumped at the landfill site over the years. Speaking to reporters in the City on Wednesday, Transport …
JALANDHAR: Already facing opposition from villagers over setting up of solid waste management plant at Jamsher village of the district, environmental experts have raised more questions on the project at a seminar organized by Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Pargat Singh of the SAD, The MLA is also opposing the plant at …
Liu Huaiyu raises more than 200 pigs in her farmyard, which houses one of the largest piggeries in her village, and the prodigious amount of manure they generate every day never bothers her. It is a source of extra income for her family. "The village government has subsidized us to …
For squeaky-clean Singapore, even the local dump is an eco-park with lush green walking trails and migratory birds. That is because Singapore buries only a fraction of its trash. This nimble, wealthy city-state crammed on an island 3½ times the size of Washington, D.C., sends only 2% of its solid …
Whisky, forestry and household by-products will be turned into biofuels thanks to new funding awarded today by the Department for Transport. Three UK companies will share a £25 million fund to help them turn waste products into green fuel. Transport minister Andrew Jones said: “Biofuels have an important role to …
To mitigate this, the government has taken a decision to set up pipelines which would deliver upto 20 TMC water from the dam for the city and its periphery in rural areas. State-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will use the waste water for power plants with Union power minister …
Assurance of quality energy is the most important input for development. Though India is the fifth largest producer of electricity globally, it remains a power-deficit state. It is poorly endowed with traditional fuel resources such as hydrocarbons, but blessed reasonably with renewable energy sources. Every step in harnessing them will …
Clean development mechanism (CDM) was included in the Kyoto protocol to support sustainable development in developing countries through technology transfer from developed countries along with the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. More than 1000 projects which were registered under CDM from India in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …
Palestinian villagers living in desolate, off-grid areas in the West Bank have begun using Israeli-made biogas generators that supply free, clean energy by gobbling up organic waste. The portable, household "anaerobic digesters" made by Israeli start-up company HomeBioGas turn food leftovers and manure into methane for cooking and lighting. They …
