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 …
The City Corporation has decided to take steps to reduce the volume of garbage being taken to the treatment plant at Vilappilsala in the wake of mounting protests against the operation of the facility. The Corporation had issued notices to hotels, hospitals, commercial establishments, and apartments in the city, directing …
The massive scale of urbanization in South Asia is expected to create a surge in demand for solid waste services. An enormous opportunity exists to improve upon the “business-as-usual” approach of uncollected waste and open dumping witnessed throughout the region and to convert this waste into value-added resources, such as …
Social activists speak out against plant The agitation against the City Corporation's garbage-treatment plant at Vilappilsala received a shot in the arm on Saturday, with speakers at a convention expressing solidarity with the stir and calling for a shut down of the project. Inaugurating the convention, educationist and social activist …
KOCHI: With the city reeling under severe waste treatment problem, many measures initiated by the District Sanitation Mission is going awry for want of proper attendance from the authorities. Projects like building biogas plants, vermi-composting and windrow composting, which are better options to ward off the waste management crisis to …
PANJIM: Goa Government has refused to fund Corporation of the City of Panjim’s proposed garbage treatment project at Bainguinnim this year, although Goa Government steering committee had trumpeted that there was no need to apply for funding under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and instead state government would fund …
District Collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed said that a plot of land will be identified for a new waste treatment plant to find a permanent solution to the issue of waste management in Eloor municipality. The main hurdle in resolving the problem is the shortage of land suitable for the plant. …
Laws to curb poultry waste dumping in public The district is set to pilot the State government's comprehensive waste disposal project. Minister for Industries P.K. Kunhalikutty said here on Friday that Malappuram district was chosen to pilot the project considering its problems in waste disposal. Addressing a review meeting of …
New plant to be set up in public-private partnership mode The Expression of Interest (EOI) for the new solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram will be floated in September. The Corporation is planning to rope in a national agency for completing the leg work for floating the expression of interest. …
RAWALPINDI, Jan 8: A private company was on Saturday given the task to generate fuel from garbage after buying it daily from the city government, with the hopes that Rawalpindi will have a cleaner look. The Waste Management of Pakistan (WMP) was declared successful bidder to install the first solid …
The work on the much-needed bioelectric central Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) is nearing completion and the plant will go into operation on July 30. This was informed at a media briefing, arranged by Water Systems (BD) Ltd, a joint-venture company setting up the plant, …
Many of the new sustainable buildings popping up around Europe contain technology to make use of solar power and rainwater, and aim to transform surrounding neighborhoods. But these state-of-the-art developments in cities like Madrid and Paris haven't resolved the debate over whether going green pays off for investors. While new …
The objective of this study was to investigate the removal of reactive orange 16 (RO16) dye from synthetic wastewater by the adsorption on cocoa (Theobrama cacao) shell activated carbon (CSAC).
Mysore, Agitators warn of intensifying stir if civic body fails to act Cutting across party lines, a group of leaders along with prominent residents staged a protest demanding the shifting of Excel Plant (waste treatment unit) at Sewage Farm in Vidyaranyapuram, in the city on Wednesday. The protesters including women, …
Bioremediation is an invaluable tool box for wider application in the realm of environmental protection. Bioremediation approach is currently applied to contain contaminants in soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediments including air. These technologies have become attractive alternatives to conventional cleanup technologies due to relatively low capital costs and their …
Treatment plant proposal awaiting government nod Kudumbasree units to revive, garbage collection, Ward-level awareness, meetings planned KANNUR: The Kannur municipality has taken steps to resume garbage disposal, Municipal Chairperson M.C. Sreeja said at a press conference here on Tuesday. Garbage disposal was affected following protests by residents near the civic …
COIMBATORE: On a 450-acre campus where nearly 8,000 people live, at least one tonne of food getting wasted is not unusual. But what Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham does with that waste is certainly unusual. And, the different way in which the food waste is converted to wealth is also extended to …
Erik FyrwaldErik Fyrwald, chairman and chief executive officer of US-based NLC Nalco, is in India for two weeks to decide how India will play a major role in the fortunes of the $4.2-billion turnover company. NLC Nalco is the world
Hazard a guess when exactly the waste treatment plant at Sonsodo would finally become a reality. Well, Fomento has initially planned to set up the plant and machinery at the dumping site by March 31, 2011. But, inordinate delay to ink the concession agreement between Fomento and the Margao Municipal …
Asks the three local bodies involved to file statements Parties told to maintain status quo till new order Technical unit to monitor plant operation THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ombudsman for Local Self-government Institutions M.R. Hariharan Nair has directed the city Corporation, Vilappil grama panchayat and Nemom block panchayat to file statements by January …
