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 …
Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a cement company to use the plastic waste generated across the state, as fuel for its manufacturing plant. Vasavdatta Cement, a company with its plant in Karnataka, would be procuring the plastic waste collected by the …
Six waste processing units to produce compressed gas The BBMP, which had earlier identified new landfill sites to dispose of waste, has dumped the project. Instead, it is now focusing on installing new waste-processing plants across the City. The Palike, in October 2012, had identified six new landfill sites for …
The second waste-to-energy plant in Delhi is now scheduled to come up at Narela in North Delhi, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has announced. To be built with Chinese technology, the new waste-to-energy plant would come up near the Narela-Bawana landfill site. It is expected to become ready by August-end …
Chief minister AkhileshYadav's initiative towards setting up a waste-to-energy power plant in the state started taking shape on Wednesday when a delegation from a US-based company gave a presentation to urban development minister Azam Khan and senior officials. The power point presentation put forth the various techniques that the company …
China has extended technological help to build the first of its kind waste-to-energy plant in Narela Bawana, North Municipal Corporation announced on Tuesday. Private concessionaire Ramky, which is investing hundreds of crores into the plant, claimed that the new technology would help them keep the landfill sites from overflowing. "We …
The process of burning solid waste to convert it to energy at a recycling plant in South Delhi has made the air near the unit 25 times more polluted than the permissible limit, a surprise check of the Okhla waste-to-energy plant has revealed. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked Central …
Few issues in Delhi whip people into as much of a frenzy as Jindal's Okhla-based waste-to-energy plant. Residents of Sukhdev Vihar in Okhla have been enraged that the plant has been situated a mere 200 metres away from the colony. Layers of ash and soot that blanketed the neighbourhood in …
LUCKNOW: Nearly a decade after it shelved the ambitious waste-to-energy power plant in Lucknow, the UP government is again toying with the idea to revive the project, this time with the help of a US-based company. A delegation of the United States-based renewable energy company would be arriving in the …
New Delhi: The Central Pollution Control Board’s report on the Sukhdev Vihar waste-to-energy plant has revealed that levels of toxic substances dioxins and furans are 30 to 40 times higher than the levels prescribed by Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC). The level set by DPCC, which sources claim is ad-hoc,was …
To ensure safety of Okhla residents living near a waste-to-energy plant that incinerates waste for fuel, the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday ordered government officials to check whether the plant's emissions contain heavy metals. "The Okhla waste-to-energy plant should also be properly segregating all municipal waste before it hits the …
Okhla residents opposing a controversial plant, which converts waste to energy, have filed an affidavit in an ongoing National Green Tribunal case, claiming that the plant is operating in an eco-sensitive zone.The affidavit claims that the Okhla waste to energy plant, a first in the country started by the Delhi …
The Bruhat Bangalore Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is said to be contemplating on dropping bulk garbage generators from its purview to streamline solid waste management. “We are receiving a lot of recommendations to allow bulk waste generators to set up their own waste-processing units. A final decision will be taken soon …
Wants Waste Plant To Go, Pledges Terraces For Solar Panels New Delhi: Residents of Sukhdev Vihar’s Pocket B have embarked on a unique mode of protest against the government’s waste-to-energy plant in the area. They have pledged their rooftops for solar panels to increase the city’s renewable energy supply so …
Greenpeace organised a renewable energy community fair ‘Switch on the Sun’ in association with the Sukhdev Vihar (Pocket B) Residents’ Welfare Association here on Sunday to address the energy crisis in Delhi. The NGO slammed the Delhi Government for not developing alternative sources of energy. “Delhi has more than 320 …
Will process 2,500 tonnes of garbage from MMR daily, convert it to electricity. By the end of 2015, MMRDA expects to commission a regional solid waste management plant at Taloja with a capacity to process 2,500 tonnes of solid waste produced in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) daily, and convert …
Mumbai: Most Mumbaikars are unwilling to segregate waste before disposal, according to a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Despite the belief that waste segregation at source is the best way to handle solid waste and limit health hazards, 80% of those surveyed were not willing to do …
Kochi:The state government has decided to opt for the ‘Swiss challenge system’ of tendering, a bidding process to help private sector initiative in core sector projects, for the new solid waste treatment plant to be set up at Brahmapuram. Urban development minister Manjalamkuzhi Ali said the cabinet has already taken …
A resident's collective opposing the Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy plant has had air quality samples taken from around the plant analysed by ChesterLabNet and Chennai based Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives which took two 24-hours ambient air samples. Mark Chernaik, a scientist associated with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide who …
India’s resolve to reduce its emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 as compared to the levels in 2005 is enthusiastic as well as challenging. In order to ensure that the Indian economy, while meeting its development objectives, also pursues a sustainable development pathway, it is important to analyze …
Rs. 100-crore project to be completed by mid-2014; will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram Preliminary civil works for a waste-to-energy power plant began at Venkatamangalam village on Monday. The non-incineration facility will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram municipalities. A bhoomi …
