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 …
The Punjab government plans to set up a biogas compressed natural gas (CNG) plant, on a pilot basis, in every district, to harness the potential of the state. Punjab New and Renewable Energy Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said he had conceived the project would be installed on a build-own-operate basis. …
Report on solid waste management in the urban local bodies in Odisha in pursuance of orders of Honourable National Green Tribunal (NGT) dated 15/01/2015.
Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) plans to produce 100 mega watt (MW) of green energy by 2019-20 for which it will spend Rs 93 crore in the current financial year. It will produce 16.2 MW of solar and wind power in the year 2015-16 and spend another Rs 4.5 crore for …
KISERIAN, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maasai pastoralists have found an innovative way to generate biogas: using animal blood and waste from the Keekonyokie slaughterhouse. The facility in Kenya’s Kajiado County uses the gas it produces to generate electricity that powers the meat cold room and processing equipment. It also …
The waste produced by every human being can be the key to producing energy and potable water in developing countries that lack sanitation. Janicki Industries Inc., with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has developed a system, the Omniprocessor, that converts human feces into electricity and clean drinking …
This compendium is a joint initiative by Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and UNDP India which provides a compilation of Simple Solutions to address climate change for India which could be utilized by people from all walks of life. It will help every concerned citizen in the country to understand …
A new waste treatment plant capable of turning flue gas treatment residues (FGT) into carbon-negative building products has been granted planning permission to be built in Bristol. The plant, managed by waste treatment firm Carbon8, uses patented technology to recycle FGT residues from Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities, converting it …
Punjab being a major agricultural state of India produces main crops such as paddy, wheat, pulses, barley, cotton, maize, arhar, mustard, rapeseed, sesamum, sugarcane and ground nut. Presently about half of the crop residue is being utilized for local needs like food for animals, home fuel and thatching materials. Remaining …
Increasing the cost of fuels, growing concern of global warming and increasing demand of electrical energy, a compact, less polluting and efficient gas turbine power plant with regenerator and a suitable Waste Heat Recovery Steam Generator (WHRSG) presents a very attractive concept. Developments in metallurgical sciences, protective coatings and cooling …
It's been a year since a delegation of 25 officials from the German government's nodal agency, Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), visited the civic body's compost plant for a pilot project involving the conversion of waste to energy, but the project is yet to kick start. The project, which will …
New Delhi: In a bid to integrate and offer better working conditions to kabadiwalas and ragpickers in the national capital, civic body officials are working on a scheme to bring them under a formal organised system. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation along with its East Delhi counterpart is going to …
KOLHAPUR: The civic body has cancelled its plan to set up the proposed 180-tonne waste-to-energy plant and is instead planning to start the unit in two phases - first, by setting up a facility to treat 100 tonnes of garbage and in the second start treating the remaining 80 tonnes, …
Belgian researchers have developed a new process allowing them to turn sawdust into the building blocks for gasoline. Scientist at KU Leueven university have discovered a way to convert cellulose - the main substance in plant matter - into hydrocarbon chains, which can then be used as a 'green additive' …
Total SA is exploring ways to convert sugars from plant waste that could be used to fuel aircraft while cutting greenhouse gases, the French oil major said on Tuesday. As commercial production of transportation fuel made from plant waste rather than valuable corn finally starts in the United States, Brazil …
The Delhi Development Authority is drafting a policy on financial and non-financial initiatives to promote green buildings in the national capital. “DDA will soon come up with a policy defining the financial and non-financial initiatives to be offered to those who live in green buildings. The policy will set a …
They call them “flying toilets” – the bags of human poo that are thrown out of the windows of the thousands of small shacks that make up Nairobi’s slums. The largest of Nairobi’s informal settlements is Kibera, just three miles from the city centre. An estimated one million people live …
Italy will become the first country in Europe to legally require "advanced biofuels" in cars and trucks, the BBC has learned. Made from waste, the new fuels are said to reduce the amount of land taken out of food production. The world's first commercial scale plant making fuel from straw …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Lalita Shinde & Anr Vs. Trimbakeshwar Mun. Council & Ors dated 14/10/2014 regarding shifting of bio-degradable Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated on account of ‘Pooja Vidhis’ at the site of Trimbakeshwar pilgrimage places to Nashik Municipal …
The Sindh government is starting a project to produce six hundred seventy-two megawatts electricity daily from two thousand tons garbage of Karachi city. According to Radio Pakistan quoting an official source, feasibility report of the project has been prepared and it will be completed within thirty months. The project is …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Akhil Bharat Krishi GosevaSanga (Mumbai) Vs MPCB & Others dated 13/10/2014 regarding the management of the effluents and other waste material generated from Deonar abattoir situated within the limits of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Previous Orders
