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 proposed solid waste treatment plant will adopt incineration method The proposed solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram capable of processing 500 tonnes of waste material daily will adopt the waste-to-energy technology model based on the incineration method. Work on the Rs. 350 crore plant is expected to begin soon. …
New Delhi: Sukhdev Vihar residents have once again reported emissions from the Okhla waste-to-energy plant. The RWA has written to Jindal ITF Ecopolis, the plant operator, chief minister Sheila Dikshit and the environment department, complaining that the plant has been emitting black smoke and a thick layer of soot covered …
The Odisha Environment Congress (OEC)-2012 concluded on a high note on Saturday with major recommendations and suggestions in the lines that match the strategy of the State Government in view of the Chief Minister’s advocacy for green energy sources and declaration of formation of a Green Energy Development Corporation. The …
Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Harish Kumar K. said on Thursday that the officials lacked the morale to implement the ban on plastic that was imposed with much fanfare on November 15. When it was pointed out during a “meet-the-press” programme here that the ban was not even being implemented in …
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has obtained clearances for a 40 MW power plant with municipal solid waste generated in the city. The corporation expects to use the 3,100 tonnes of municipal solid waste it generates every day as fuel for the power plant, GHMC Special Commissioner Navin Mittal said …
A new partnership has started providing enough clean, green energy to power 2,000 homes across North Yorkshire after establishing an innovative way to capture and recycle the energy produced by a landfill site. The Walled Garden Partnership was set up by former landfill owners Tony and Gill Eyers 18 months …
The European Commission has approved state aid of 1.88 billion euros for the Czech Republic and 56 million euros for Hungary in the form of free carbon allowances, it said on Wednesday. Stating the grants were within EU state aid rules, the Commission said the money would be used to …
Irate residents to meet CM over ‘illegal dumping’ Roiled by garbage trucks being allowed inside the Mandur landfill site despite protests, members of the Mandur grama panchayat on Tuesday said they would meet Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar shortly to discuss the matter. Lamenting the pathetic state of their village, the …
The residents of Mandur remained indoors as ban orders under Section 144 of the CrPC remained in force for the fourth consecutive day in the village in the wake of protests against dumping of garbage at the landfill site. Amid tight security, nearly 200 truckloads of garbage from the City …
Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally with programs such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) providing funding for many WtE projects across the world. In India alone, 31 such facilities are expected to be funded, even as their technological appropriateness …
Off-grid biomass plants light up villages; experts demand clarity on tariff regulation It is 10 pm. Too late in the night by village standards. But the four benches around Mote Singh’s tea stall are occupied. People are chatting while sipping tea. More than a year ago, the stall in Sahebganj …
Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited along with Chinese firm Chongqing Sanfeng Environmental Industry Group plans to address the waste to energy project market in India through a joint venture. "Hitherto, the Chinese company was an equipment supplier and an EPC contractor for some of the projects Ramky is currently executing. We …
With a strong tradition of recycling and incinerating, it now has too many waste-to-energy incinerators and not enough rubbish to meet demand. It has become Europe's biggest importer of trash from other countries, currently mainly from Norway. But as the European Union seeks to reduce the dumping of 150 million …
Solid waste produced in Tamil Nadu a day could be put to use for generating electricity, said N.Ramachandran, Vice Chanellor, Periyar Maniammai University (PMU), on Tuesday. At the two-day workshop on municipal solid waste for renewable energy production at PMU, Mr. Ramachandran said 12,504 tonnes of solid waste is produced …
A modern garbage treatment plant will be set up for producing ethanol and jet fuel in the district like the developed countries. The construction work of the plant will begin in the middle of the next year. To this effect, Sylhet City Corporation signed an agreement with Eco World Wide …
Daily Earning Dips To 100-200 As Okhla Project Uses Up 1,300 Tonnes Tehreen Nisha has spent her early years watching people sort the waste at the Okhla landfill site every day. About 150 families of ragpickers living on the periphery of Tughlaqabad village depend on waste from this site for …
Waste-to-energy plants that are touted by the Government as the only solution to the city’s multiplying waste and shrinking waste dumps have taken away livelihood opportunities from a large number of waste-pickers and worse still have resulted in a number of children being deprived of an education, claims a study. …
The ‘Kidagamparambu model’ of waste management could be the answer to the growing garbage menace in the State. Over 100 biogas plants have been set up in Kidagamparambu ward comprising 850 houses. Nearly 300 houses are treating waste at the source, with each biogas plant capable of treating the waste …
Gujarat Produces 25,000 Tonnes Of Solid Waste Daily Gandhinagar: Government and industry need to take pro-active measures to scale up solid waste treatment to derive alternate fuel, while looking for a substitute to landfill sites. This was decided by the members of union government’s Forum for Co-processing of Hazardous and …
ISLAMABAD: The twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi may join hands to materialise a project of power generation from solid waste to address the issue of power shortage as well as contain the swelling pollution. Earlier, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) had envisaged the project but had to shelve it …
