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 …
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Wednesday told the House that municipal councils would be helped to select technology for treatment of garbage. He made the statement speaking during Question Hour in response to the question tabled by Fatorda MLA Damu Naik. Naik had sought information about proposals to acquire new …
A raw material faster to source. Eco issue Owing to environmental concerns, large paper manufacturers are bound to look at waste paper as a supplement, say industry sources R. Balaji Chennai, July 17 Large paper mills that have depended on virgin raw material will increasingly look at recycling paper to …
AHMEDABAD : She saw an innovative green idea' in trash bins full of discarded gutkha pouches and empty food packets. Sixteen-year-old Hetal Vaishnav has invented a new technology to help recycle multi-layered food packets which can be used in making furniture. "I always find empty gutkha pouches, wrappers and packets …
The Cuncolim Municipal Council has asked for funds from the Director of Municipal Administration to set up a one ton garbage plant and a plastic shredder to tackle waste generated in the town. The Council has also resolved to invite Expression of Interest from prospective companies to set up the …
Faced with intense opposition, the Sanguem Municipal Council (SMC) on Thursday scrapped the tender process for resuming work on the controversial garbage treatment plant at Gunjimoll-Sanguem. It was a victory for residents of Marangan, Mugoli, Taripanto, Nondurlem and nearby areas, as they stood united at the municipal office and prevented …
ALAPPUZHA: The waste treatment plant of Alappuzha Municipality at Sarvodayapuram in Mararikkulam South grama panchayat is ready for commissioning by August. With this, the longstanding demand of the people for a scientific garbage treatment centre here is being fulfilled. The construction work of the plant has almost been completed and …
The appropriate handling of electronic waste (e-waste) can both prevent serious environmental damage but also recover valuable materials, especially different types of metals such as aluminium, copper, palladium and gold. This publication focuses on the significance and possibilities of getting resources back out of e-waste trough a sustainable technology transfer …
Transition from fossil fuel dominated energy to clean, carbon compliant sources demand its generation from alternative sources that could provide flexible and scalable solutions. This is the big challenge in view that the gas and coal fired installations continue to increase unabated notwithstanding the harsh realities of global warming and …
Will a garbage treatment plant finally become a reality at the Sonsodo waste dumping site by April 30, 2010? Despite failed deadlines, the Civic body strongly believes that a land fill site and a waste treatment plant will be set up at Sonsodo by April next year. An undertaking to …
Initiative to clean slums in four zones to be launched today New TOOLS: Sanitary workers with new tricycles at a rally organised to create awareness on source segregation on Monday. CHENNAI: Chennai Corporation and Neel Metal Fanalca organised a rally as part of an awareness programme on source segregation on …
Ever wondered what happens to all the waste you generate and where it goes after it is mindlessly dumped? Reports indicate that a good 99 per cent of people have never bothered or even know what happens thereafter. The responsibility of collection of waste obviously has to rest with the …
The Margao Municipal Council has decided to place before the special meeting of the Council scheduled on June 15, the proposals received from Ramky Enviro Pvt Ltd and Fomento-IL&FS; to set up the 50-ton garbage treatment plant at Sonsodo. The Civic body has received the two proposals to the Expression …
CUTTACK: Solid waste management, one of the major civic problems of the millennium city, seems set for a huge boost with plans mooted for setting up a common facility for proper handling and treatment of the waste generated in the Twin City of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The facility would not …
The Lok Adalat, which took the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials to task for failing to initiate action against the nine government hospitals that failed to initiate measures to establish effluent treatment plant (ETP) to treat bio-medical waste, has warned of action if they fail to do so …
Urban metabolism studies have been established for only a few cities worldwide, and difficulties obtaining adequate statistical data are universal. Constraints and peculiarities call for innovative methods to quantify the materials entering and leaving city boundaries. Such methods include the extrapolation of data at the country or the region level …
Phosphorus has been used extensively for over 100 years as a fertiliser in modern industrial agriculture. This underappreciated resource is still decades from running out. This paper published in Scientific American advises us to act now to conserve it, or the future agriculture could collapse. As complex as the chemistry …
LUCKNOW: Mayors from the 12 cities of the state have expressed their anguish over the state government decision to handover the project of installing a solid waste treatment plant to UP Jal Nigam. Even as resentment brewed among the 12 first citizens of the state, they demanded that the responsibility …
