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 …
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
When Denmark's Novozymes first wondered in 2000 how its mass-produced enzymes could be used to make advanced biofuel, the industry did not exist and only now is the fruit of its labor emerging after years of being lampooned as a "fantasy fuel". But as commercial production of transportation fuel made …
DuPont and Procter & Gamble (P&G;) have teamed up on a new initiative to use renewable agricultural biomass in the production of Tide-branded laundry detergent. In a technological breakthrough which has been ten years in the making, the two companies will substitute starch ethanol made from corn kernels with a …
Though the state government had launched the Swachh AP programme in Vijayawada with much fanfare, the fact remains that there is no dumping yard to keep the city clean. The civic administration has been hunting for a suitable site to dump the about 600 tonnes of garbage generated by the …
Guwahati, September 29: Assam will set up a power plant which for the first time will use ‘waste’ gas as fuel. The plant, proposed to be set up at Titabor in Jorhat district, will use the associated gas that is produced as a byproduct during production of crude oil. The …
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), which has invited proposals for its rooftop solar energy generation project, has found support from New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi for the project. Stating that the next three years will witness generation of 12 MW of solar energy in the NDMC area, Lekhi said, …
The Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that Swachh Bharat Mission will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Addressing a Joint Press conference with the Urban Development Minister Shri M. Venkaiah …
The UK and other EU states must reduce the amount of landfill waste by 2020 Grants worth £213.5m have been paid to councils for waste management projects since 1998 even though key facilities have yet to be built, MPs have found. The Public Accounts Committee said "lax" contracts, agreed by …
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 …
In view of the existing garbage treatment plant in Margao and the government's plans to launch a treatment plant in both the districts, the Margao municipal council (MMC) appeared hesitant to give permission for an ambitious plan of the Goa state urban development agency to set up a plant in …
Around 99 per cent of Sweden's garbage is now recycled and the country is so efficient at managing waste they are importing it from other European countries. The Scandinavian country has 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, where garbage is incinerated to produce steam, which in turn is used to run generator …
The 'Energy from Coffee Wastewater' project has proven that it is possible to generate energy, tackle climate change and protect water resources by treating discharges from coffee mills. The project, run by sustainable farming organisation UTZ Certified, has been implemented in a range of different size coffee farms in Latin …
A waste-to-energy plant where power supply is generated from garbage is likely to be commissioned by January 2015. The plant in Venkatamangalam is expected to significantly reduce the strain on open spaces in some of the bigger urban pockets in the city’s southern suburbs such as Tambaram and Pallavaram by …
