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 purpose of this report is to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and assess, evaluate and recommend systems, processes, technological options, financial mechanisms and institutional arrangements to enhance resource recovery and promote Waste to Energy (W to E) …
Biogas plant to be inaugurated next week In the recent past, the Attingal municipality has made several strides in implementing waste management programmes, and when the civic body inaugurates a biogas plant, with capacity to process 1,000 kg of waste a day, at the Attingal market next week, it will …
In a world first, British Airways is planning to use garbage to power its flights in an ambitious project which aims to convert municipal waste into 50,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel per year. The project will attempt to convert trash into a drop-in fuel for air-planes by 2017. While …
The report looks back on the past years and discusses the evolution of NAMAs, it presents five case studies (Chile, Indonesia, Kenya, Tunisia, and Peru) and draws insights from hands-on NAMA experience and dialogues with peers, and it looks into the future of NAMAs as essential building block for a …
Urban India is facing an ever increasing challenge of providing for the incremental infrastructural needs of a growing urban population. According to the 2011 census, the population of India was 1.21 billion; of this 31% live in cities. It is further projected that by 2050 half of India’s population will …
The plant was on a trial run for the past three months and was found to be functioning effectively The Sesa Sterlite has established an eco-friendly bio-gas unit within its alumina refinery complex at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district at a cost of Rs 60 lakh. With a capacity to …
Despite the Supreme Court directions issued to various state governments, including Haryana, to set up solid waste management plants, the plant project here has been hanging fire due to red tapism and the apathy of officials of the Local Bodies Department and the Pollution Control Board. Recently, the Kaithal Municipal …
Every day, the district produces 300 tonnes of municipal waste. The Greater Noida Authority is planning to built a waste-to-energy plant — the district’s first solid waste management plant — in the Sector-123 area of Greater Noida. Every day, the district produces over 300 tonnes of municipal waste. But in …
Residents of Sukhdev Vihar, Okhla, have on Saturday written to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) against Delhi’s Jindal’s Timarpur-Okhla waste management incinerator stating that the plant is yet again spewing toxic ash. Earlier the group had written to the National Human Rights Commission …
A farmers' organisation in Erode held a demonstration using a tractor and a motor cycle powered by biogas at a city college. Around 200 farmers attended the demonstration and some even tried their hand in operating the exhibits on Sunday. The purpose of the demo is to encourage the use …
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is investing £51m in a proposed new energy-from-waste plant in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. The new facility, the Willows Power & Recycling Centre, will provide a long-term waste treatment solution for Norfolk County Council. It will process 170,000 tonnes of black bag waste from households …
New Delhi: About 80 doctors from Holy Family Hospital in Okhla and some other hospitals across the city have written open letters to the Prime Minister’s Office raising concerns about emissions from the Okhla waste-to-energy plant. In their letters, written on individual letterheads, doctors have said polluting emissions from the …
New Delhi: It’s not power or water that is weighing on their minds. People living close to the Okhla waste to energy plant have decided to vote in the general election to demand clean air. About 120 residents from adjoining areas like Sukhdev Vihar, Sarita Vihar, New Friends Colony and …
City residents need not bother to segregate waste generated at their homes when the new waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram becomes operational. Going by the project report of the plant prepared by Kerala Industrial and Technology Consultancy Organisation (KITCO), all sorts of municipal waste, including plastic refuse and wood, would …
Union minister for new and renewable energy, Farooq Abdullah, releases CSE’s Citizen’s Report on State of Renewable Energy In 2012-13, electricity produced by renewables met the electricity requirements of 60 million people. But India still reels under immense energy poverty – 50 per cent of households in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, …
The Defence Research and Development Organisation's new eco-friendly residential complex at Timarpur, Delhi, has the anaerobic biodigestor technology, that aims to conserve nature. The biodigestor technology turns human waste into biogas and odourless compost. It was developed by the research team of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) several …
Tourism Minister inaugurates work, taken up at a cost of Rs. 32 lakh The Tuticorin Corporation has embarked on a new project to convert solid and liquid waste into energy for consumption. The work taken up at a cost of Rs. 32 lakh was inaugurated by S.P. Shanmuganathan, Tourism Minister, …
Hazardous Emissions From Mixed Solid Waste Prompts Panel To Seek Countrywide Ban The parliamentary standing committee on urban development has recommended waste incinerator plants be shut in residential areas across the country. In its 27th report, the committee severely criticized the location and use of “mixed solid waste” for such …
New Delhi: National Green Tribunal has asked a private laboratory based in Hyderabad to monitor dioxin emissions at the Okhla waste-to-energy plant. The tribunal had recently told Delhi Pollution Control Committee and Central Pollution Control Board to assess pollution levels by holding a surprise inspection at the plant. The counsel …
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is set to launch a European Union- supported energy project within a week. On Friday, the KMC and the EU had signed a Euro 3.06 lakh agreement for the pilot project, according to KMC officials. The civic body will contribute Euro 74,000 for the project. Rabin …
