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 …
Emulating the success story of the Sreekaryam market where a waste-to-energy plant set up six years ago continues to light up the entire market and the nearby street, the city Corporation is planning to set up biogas plants in the city’s markets. Such plants in addition to treating waste at …
Under attack from various quarters on the issue of piling garbage in the city, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Monday promised a solution within a week to the waste disposal problem. “Garbage disposal is a challenge to the government and also officials. By this weekend, we should find a solution …
Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka laid the foundation stone for an integrated plant for garbage segregation and generating power from biogas, as part of efforts to address the garbage menace, in the City on Monday. The project will come up on the vacant site near the NMKRV College at a …
Northern Ireland's second largest shopping centre, which serves 14 million shoppers a year, has been recognised for achieving zero waste to landfill. CastleCourt teamed up with waste management company WasteSolve to convert its average annual 500 tonnes of waste, 86% of which went to landfill, into new energy and products. …
With half to five kg of waste, burn stove for more than two hours With a cap on the supply of LPG domestic cylinders at subsidised prices, kitchens can make use of alternative options. Some in Coimbatore have done so and also gone green with biogas plants. A simple system …
The district panchayat has come up with a solution for the waste disposal woes of every household, especially plastic waste. It aims to set up a plant on 90 cents of land and convert the plastic waste into furnace oil. The project will be implemented with private participation. “We hope …
Coimbatore Corporation Council on Thursday resolved to spend Rs 50.67 lakh as its share for the proposed feasibility study on power generation from solid waste and on the implementation of the mono-rail. The Rs. 50.67 lakh proposed to be spent from the civic body’s general funds is a share while …
BARC’s Nisargruna biogas technology can produce 25-30 kg of methane and 50-60 kg of organic manure from onetonne of biowaste A staggering amount of waste is generated every day in every town and city, and the local bodies are grappling with logistics for its disposal. The problem arises as the …
The EU has launched a campaign aimed at showing how low-carbon solutions can improve quality of life. The European Commission believes that policies to cut greenhouse gases will only work if individuals share the vision of a low-carbon society. "It's perhaps been a bit too much doom and gloom in …
GUWAHATI, Sept 30 – The Guwahati Waste Management Company Private Ltd (GWMCPL), a subsidiary of the Hyderabad-based Ramky Enviro Engineers, has slapped some conditions to continue with its solid waste management programme in Guwahati. The company is working in Guwahati since November 2008. Talking to this correspondent, sources in the …
The IFAD has released a paper that provides a review of the role of livestock as a potential renewable energy source to improve energy access in rural areas. The paper focuses on opportunities to harness biogas from livestock wastes and residues, including tools and reviews on the best available information …
Biomass power sector is in trouble. About 60 per cent of the country’s grid-connected power plants that run on biomass are either closed or about to be closed. Reason: rising fuel price, unrevised tariff and government apathy. For full text: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/looming-biomess
Fears are growing that the Government's proposed electricity market reforms (EMR) could have an adverse impact on the development of future energy-from-waste (EfW) infrastructure. An in-depth study into the impact of EMR on the energy recovery market has highlighted numerous concerns around how the reforms will work in practice, especially …
‘Hike fine on households that fail to segregate waste at source’ In a terse ruling on Monday, the High Court of Karnataka described the waste management policies of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) as being equivalent to ‘garbage’. The Palike has now been directed to ensure power generation using …
Municipal corporation ties up with firm to convert waste into energy Imagine a situation wherein 80 per cent of the solid waste generated daily is processed to produce energy. While most cities across Karnataka, particularly Bangalore, are still battling their garbage woes, the Pune Municipal Corporation appears to have stolen …
Energy-from-waste leaders have called on the Government to do more to back low carbon technologies following the Prime Minister's cabinet reshuffle this week. Air Products' global asset manager for energy businesses Jeff Lockett spoke directly to a panel of Energy & Climate Change Select Committee MPs of the importance of …
A set of floating inverted skyscraper-like structures capable of coverting ocean litter into energy have been designed by architects. The 'seascrapers' would be self-sustaining mobile facilities floating in the ocean. Much like icebergs, they would remain submerged largely beneath the surface, but would actively seek to collect materials such as …
MUMBAI: Unhappy with contractors holding it to ransom, the BMC now wants to reduce its dependence on them. Plans are afoot to build a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant so that the civic body can generate electricity from garbage and reduce the load on dumping grounds, which are filled to capacity. Civic …
Energy generated by using wind, solar, small hydro, tides, geothermal heat and biomass is known a non-conventional energy. All these sources are renewable process of energy generation and do not cause environmental pollution. Standing Committee on Energy present this Twenty-nineth report on "Availability of Identified Non-conventional Resources of Energy – …
New Delhi: In an ecofriendly initiative, Tihar Prisons has joined hands with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to set up a bio-gas plant on its premises which will utilize the waste from its nine jails. This plant will help generate bio-fuel, which will assist in meeting the jail’s electricity needs. Tihar …
