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 …
safe disposal of medical waste is a challenge faced by most medical institutes and hospitals. But if the Gujarat-based Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (fcipt) is to be believed, the problem may soon be resolved. fcipt has developed the plasma pyrolysis system. "It is an ecofriendly technology that converts …
Animal parts strewn all over the place; dogs and vultures preying over these wretched remains; dirt festering all around; horrible stench that makes your innards wrench with revulsion. Check out the meat you eat. For such horrific features are common to most slaughterhouses in the country. Most abattoirs across the …
solutions are always sweet, and if they come along with a dash of sugar, they are bound to work wonders. Scientists from Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory (ncl) have found that a small amount of sugar can help make a more ecofriendly kind of plastic. It is well known that soil …
tamil Nadu will soon have its first centralised biomedical waste treatment facility (cwtf). The unit is being set up in Chennai by the Hyderabad-based G J Multiclave India Private Limited and can treat medical waste of 15,000 beds. The plant, which is set to commence operations, has already secured a …
Managing a village commons is difficult. But just imagine managing urban waste as a common property resource. This is exactly what the common effluent treatment plants (cetps) aim to do. Collect the waste of individual units from an industrial estate and treat it in a common location. Members
#1 Who is the polluter? What is their waste-typology? This is the first critical and often make-or-break step. Get the property rights regime wrong and it is clear that nothing will work, is the advice of common property managers in rural areas. It is the same for a cetp. Delhi …
If cetps are the answer, how do we make them work? The choice of technology, however important, is not the only challenge ahead. The key is to build a much stronger framework for common waste governance. In Delhi, for instance, a legal framework exists. But it is so convoluted that …
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has instructed state pollution control boards to set up cetps in industrial estates. Central assistance of 25 per cent is given, …
The Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (nfej), an environmental organisation based in Nepal, is campaigning for a mandatory toilet condition for village development committee (vdc)-level elections in Nepal. "A candidate in vdc elections could be a role model for promoting health and sanitation,' says Rajesh Ghimire, general secretary of nfej …
A us $108.8 million global fund has been raised to tackle environmental problems and nuclear waste in northwest Russia. At a recent conference in Brussels, the European Commission pledged us $50.33 million for the fund and Russia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands offered us $10.06 million each. The …
medical establishments in the country blindly setting up incinerators and mindlessly burning biomedical waste have become commonplace. But the recently inaugurated centralised biomedical waste treatment facility at Bhaunti near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh
Some two decades ago, a researcher had created a stir in the scientific community by patenting a microbe that could clean up toxic dumps. Now researchers at University of Massachusetts, USA, have gone one step further by identifying bacteria that not only clean up organic waste but when used in …
at least 27 million vehicles are junked every year. Ever wondered what happens to them? Studies show that they spawn an environmental disaster that governments are finding difficult to handle. The European Union (eu ) has taken the lead in reversing this trend. From April 21, 2002, with the implementation …
WHILE attending the Stockholm Water Symposium a few years ago, my colleague, Anil Agarwal, and I were invited to a banquet by the king of Sweden. But instead of dining in splendour we were checking out toilets in some remote parts of the city. I was not too convinced of …
"Don't flush." M K Malhotra, a resident of Delhi's Vasant Kunj, has put this instruction on his toilet. Six members of his family use this toilet at least three times a day and ten litres of water goes down the drain with every flush. In a water-scarce locality, Malhotra can …
IT IS time to go back to basics and examine what toilets and sewerage systems are supposed to do. The point of all these systems is the safe disposal of human waste matter. Flush toilets and sewerage transfer the problem elsewhere; they are complicated ways of spreading pathogens away from …
with a ban on landfilling of combustible wastes, the Swedish municipalities are giving an impetus to biological processing of household waste. As a result, the capacity of such processing is being increased and the incineration capacity is also rising rapidly. Proposed in 1997, the new combustible waste landfilling ban covers …
