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 …
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 …
The general body of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Thursday rejected the civic administration's proposal to develop garbage dumping ground and biomedical waste treatment plant on a 12-acre plot at Puikhadi on the outskirts of the city. The decision is a setback to the KMC's efforts to tackle the …
The U.K. Green Investment Bank said it’s lending 64 million pounds ($106 million) to an energy-from-waste project in Derby, central England. That’s the government-backed bank’s one-third share of a long-term loan to the project by Derby City and Derbyshire County Council, it said today in an e-mailed statement. The other …
MADURAI: Soon, the wastes from Madurai Corporation would be converted to power. If all goes as per the plans of the corporation, the wastes generated in the corporation limits would be a boon. The process called as pyrolysis would turn the non-biodegradable wastes segregated from the garbage using a mechanized …
In an effort to decentralise management of waste in the city, the BMC, with technical support from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), will soon set up a 20-metric tonne biogas plant at Deonar Abattoir by year-end. The new plant will replace the current dysfunctional four-metric tonne plant and will …
Around 1,300 metric tones of solid municipal waste will be used to generate around 12 MW power After missing several deadlines, the ambitious waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur is set to become operational within a month. Around 1,300 metric tones of solid municipal waste will be used to generate around 12 …
Company will be engaged in the manufacturing, distribution, marketing and retailing of waste to bio-diesel, a non-petroleum based fuel Pune based My Eco Energy (MEE), a bio diesel manufacturing company has launched its product under the brand name 'Indizel', priced at Rs 64 per liter. With this, MEE has begin …
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has embarked on a new project to construct a bio-gas plant in Matara expanding the scope of its “Pilisaru” national solid waste management program. The plant is a joint venture by the CEA, Matara Municipal Council and the Bio Green Company. The project envisaged to …
India will soon be able to convert its plastic wastes into high-grade petrol and diesel, thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at the Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP). The IIP, a constituent lab of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has for the first time in the country …
KOLHAPUR: The western zone of National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune is going hear the Top quarry case on Tuesday. The case was filed by local residents against the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), opposing the dumping of the garbage in a quarry located near the Top village, around 11 km …
New polling data reveals that almost half of UK voters see investing in renewables as a priority over any other form of energy when it comes to ensuring the nation's energy security. Figures released last week by RenewableUK found that 48% of voters see investing in renewables as their number …
Alvares tags Saligao project as most expensive in the country and that proposal doesn’t speak about collection, transport and proper generation of different types of waste; D’Cruz suggests govt should instead focus on setting up composting plants in every village PANJIM: While Goa government has trumpeted a garbage-free Goa through …
A leading orthopaedic surgeon in city has launched one of country's largest biogas plant in Sundarpura, Anand — a mean waste guzzler that will digest 64 tonnes of domestic and farmland waste to produce 7,000 kg of biogas daily. Feeding of waste into the project set up at cost of …
The electricity generated at the Rochem garbage processing plant in Hadapsar will now be available for commercial use. From September, the plant is expected to generate around 1 MW electricity every day, out of which around 700 KW will be used to run the plant and the surplus of around …
Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has taken measures to utilize methane gas produced at Dhanwapur sewage treatment plant to meet its electricity requirement. SDO B D Yadav said 1750kW power is needed to run the two STPs of 168 million litre per day (MLD) capacity. However, with the construction of …
New Delhi would become the second solar city in the country after Chandigarh In line with its project to earn the tag of "solar city" for the New Delhi area of the national Capital, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has now drawn up a detailed plan for rooftop solar …
A U.K. Green Investment Bank-backed fund channeled 3.2 million pounds ($5.5 million) into two plants that will generate power from farm waste in Northern Ireland. The money from the U.K. Waste Resources & Energy Investments Fund, managed by Foresight Group LLP, will be used to support construction of the projects …
VARANASI: Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi use the expertise of Sulabh International, a pioneer organization working in the field of biogas generation from human excreta, to save Ganga from sewage pollution? Sulabh has offered its services in cleaning the Ganga with the help of its indigenously developed technology. "It is …
For Dwarka residents, sanitation has been a pending concern. Efforts and false starts notwithstanding, South Delhi Municipal Corporation has been unable to streamline the waste management system in the sub-city. But now the civic agency will implement its first 'zero waste' project here. The waste generated in Dwarka will be …
Methane is the second most prevalent anthropogenic greenhouse gas emitted in the United States and has a global warming potential 28–34 times higher than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (IPCC 2013). Municipal solid waste landfills are the third-largest source of human-made methane emissions in the United States, responsible …
