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 Delhi Jal Board wants to cut down on its electricity bills, earn carbon credits, and all this by utilising bio-gas that is produced at its Okhla sewage treatment plant here in the Capital. After successfully using bio-gas to produce electricity at the Rithala sewage treatment plant, the Jal Board …
LONDON - What we throw away could soon be used to power our cars, if projects to produce ethanol from commercial waste are ramped up. Some companies are exploring the environmental and financial benefits of putting waste to good use and are developing technology to produce bioethanol. Magazine paper company …
Sujay Mehdudia AMSTERDAM: With a spirit of zero waste tolerance, Amsterdam is making the most of waste. Its garbage has turned out to be a fortune for the City of Amsterdam Waste and Energy Company (AEB) which is tasked with turning refuse into sustainable energy and raw materials. Apart from …
The Materials Technology Section (MTS), with the support of the Environment Technology Section and the Marketing and Business Development Department of the ITI has designed and installed a boiler which can use waste polyester material from the garment factories processed into briquettes, as the fuel source for the boilers. Polyester …
New Delhi: At present, Delhi produces 9,000 MT of waste per day. By 2014, this will go up to a massive 14,000 MT per day. The MCD, having run out of space to dump this waste, came up with a master plan for solid waste management in December 2007. A …
With landfill sites full to the brim, MCD has no option but to explore new methods to manage waste Ruhi Bhasin & Neha Lalchandani | TNN Having exhausted its three landfill sites and with no alternative places ready, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is now pinning its hopes on …
Chandigarh: A 2-MW biomass waste-based co-generation power plant has been commissioned at Yamunanagar at a cost of Rs 15.23 crore at Bharat Starch Industries, said Sumita Misra, Director, Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA). The plywood waste, available in huge quantity in Yamunanagar, will be used in the project, she …
If things work according to plan, villages in Jharkhand will soon generate electricity for their own consumption. Dhanbad-based Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research has shown them the way. The institute has discovered a process of generating electricity at a cheap rate from plant waste, particularly from putus, a …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The biotech centre for development of biogas technology and other non-conventional energy sources will implement a project for converting wastes causing environmental pollution to fuel for automobiles. Waste will be converted into biogas and organic manure by using biogas technology. Biogas produced in the process would be used as …
Vishal Sharma / Agra December 08, 2008, 0:44 IST Runs on synthesis gas, could bag order from the US. Ever since the manufacture of conventional technology generators was prohibited in Agra due to pollution concerns, the generator manufacturers of Agra have been looking at various technological options to boost their …
Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest challenge by all the nations, government, business and citizens of the globe. The threats of climate change on our green planet
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Municipal Corporation of Madrid led by the Ambassador of Spain, Lon de la Riva, called on Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra in her chamber at Town Hall here on Tuesday to discuss issues of solid waste management. MCD House leader Subhash Arya and MCD Standing …
Residents oppose waste-to-energy plant in Delhi residents of Okhla in Delhi have come out against a proposed waste-to-energy (wte) plant in the area, saying it will put the health of about 200,000 people to risk and pollute their water tank 100 m from the site. On August 4, they stalled …
The recent trends of increasing awareness of economic and environmental cost of conventional landfilling are being developed in accelerating pace for the degradation of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW). The anaerobic digestion (AD) is viewed as an attractive method for waste stabilization prior to landfills as a …
In this study, the anaerobic digestion of different types of organic wastes including swept flour from the floor of flourmills, leftover food and vegetable waste is investigated. The performance of an anaerobic digester is dependent on the type and composition of the materials to be digested as well as the …
Durban is unusual among cities worldwide in having a municipal government that has developed a locally rooted climate change adaptation strategy. This paper considers how climate change came to be considered by local government against four institutional markers: the emergence of climate change advocates among local politicians and civil servants; …
Ropar: The Ambuja Cement plant is utilising biomass for its captive power plant at the unit. Use of biomass has brought respite for villagers around, who find it difficult to manage agriculture waste and stock it. The plant is presently using 24 types of biomass at its captive power plant, …
