Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Armed villagers prevented government officials from entering the site of a proposed solid waste treatment plant in Khairbani on the outskirts of Jamshedpur on Friday, their resistance inspired by fears of the project leading to a polluted atmosphere. A month earlier, local residents had also pulled down a boundary wall …
: With the prospects of transporting 25,000 tons of hazardous waste turning out a remote possibility, the Goa State Pollution Control Board on Wednesday has directed the Managing Director of Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) to set up a captive landfill site for the treatment and disposal of the accumulated …
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 …
Heavy metals are often present in water and wastewater as contaminants. From the public health and environmental protection point of view, it is important that their concentration should be within the permissible limit. Many technologies for heavy metals removal have been evolved, like ion exchange, chemical percipitation and reverse osmosis …
Photodegradation is one of the advanced oxidation processes rather than other treatments and it is most effective for the removal of organic pollutants. ZnO is an excellent photocatalytic oxidation material. In the present study nanosized ZnO has prepared by coprecipitation technique under different experimental conditions and employed in the removal …
PANJIM: Construction of the state’s sole hazardous waste treatment plant that would have taken care of total 3.30 lakh metric tones of waste at Dharbandora now seems to be a distant dream, with hardly four months left for the environmental clearance (EC) issued by the Union Ministry of Environment and …
JAMMU: J&K; State Pollution Control Board (JKSPCB) today organised a public hearing at Phase II, IGC Samba near the project site in village Madhera in connection with setting up of an integrated common hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facility. Regional Director, SPCB, Shoket Choudhary while speaking, highlighted the …
The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants. The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units …
VASCO: Barely days ahead of the October 31 deadline set by South Goa Collector N D Agarwal, all four panchayats in the area are still clueless on ways to clear garbage around Dabolim airport on a daily basis. With the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) refusing to accept their garbage, the …
The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants. The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units …
The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants. The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units …
The Kochi Corporation is planning to permit the municipalities in the district to process waste at the solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The municipal authorities will have to pay Rs 1000 for a tonne to the Kochi Corporation as processing charges. At present, the Aluva Municipality transports waste materials …
Around 200 tonnes of non-biodegradable waste needs to be capped The Suchitwa Mission will assist the Kochi Corporation in scientifically capping waste at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant. The plant site is estimated to have around 200 tonnes of non-biodegradable waste. A team of officials from the mission would …
Ernakulam station to receive 20 truckloads of waste daily Two platforms of Ernakulum Junction Railway Station will be filled with non-biodegradable waste generated by the residents of Kochi. T.K. Ashraf, chairman of the Health Standing Committee of Kochi Corporation, said the Railways sought the waste to fill the two platforms …
44 tonnes of granules have piled up at shredding units Huge quantities of plastic granules remain unutilised in the city as the civic authorities could not get the approval of the Public Works Department for using them for road works. Conversion of plastic refuse into granules was introduced in the …
The tourist village of Colva is grappling with the problem of garbage collection and disposal. It’s one of the few coastal villages still facing a ban on multi-dwelling units since the last three years for want of waste disposal mechanism. Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) report filed in the …
Bangalore, the nation’s information technology capital, has entered the second harrowing week of being in threat of drowning in its own garbage because the landfills serving it cannot be used. In the process, the city’s municipal commissioner is being transferred. The city’s experience offers a lesson to all major urban …
MARGAO: Fomento Green has finally asked the Margao Municipal Council to pay the first installment amounting to Rs 1.30 crore, even as the company is bracing up to conduct trial runs of waste treatment plant at Sonsodo by month end. The company has dashed off a letter reminding the Civic …
Use of plantation land for tourism activities The ecological impacts of the decision to allow construction of resorts and hotels in plantations will be assessed by the Kerala Forest Department. Minister for Forests K.B. Ganesh Kumar said here that the officials of the department would be asked to look into …
There is only one such facility, named IMAGE, at Palakkad to handle the biomedical waste generated in hospitals and medical institutions across the State The Kerala Enviro Infrastructure Limited, which runs a Common Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility (CHWTSDF) at Ambalamedu, has submitted a detailed project report to …
