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 period between 1992-93 to 1995-96 was the boom time for the Indian pulp and paper mills. According to The Stranger , published by Greenpeace, the mills enjoyed a profit range of 40-100 per cent on an average, while US mills showed only 10 per cent profits. But this financial …
The pulp and paper sector must steadily move towards sustainable industrial development. Here are some actions which could help: INPUTS sourcing of wood: Although the 1988 National Forest Policy does not allow raw materials sourcing from gov ernment forests, the government has not made any plan to work with the …
J K Paper Mills ( jkpm ) of Raygada in Orissa has been rated the greenest paper mill in India. jkpm is followed by Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd ( appml ) and the Ballarpur unit of Ballarpur Industries Ltd. The significant feature of jkpm is a modern pulping process …
Indian industry is huge and powerful. Most environ mentalists believe that it has done little to reduce pollution. Is there, therefore, anything that the civil society can do to change the situation? I am delighted to present to the readers of Down to Earth ( dte ) the results of …
the top five states in India that have major discharges of untreated domestic wastewater are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. According to a recent survey by the Union ministry of environment and forests, these five states generated more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater and …
population explosion and technological progress has been accompanied, among other things, by an increase in waste generation and pollution. But, in India, the efforts to find a sustainable way of treating waste have failed to deliver. Thus, Soli J Arceivala's Wastewater Treatment for Pollution Control, assumes significance as it examines …
KILLING ARTHRITIS: Celebrex, a new type of painkiller for arthritis patients, has been approved by the US government. Celebrex is the first new class of painkillers called "cox-2inhibitors" that promises to cause fewer stomach-plaguing side effects than many current pain relievers. But the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dealt …
A writ petition has been filed in the Andhr* Pradesh High Court challenging the establishment of the garbage storage, treatment and disposal plant at Dindigal in Hyderabad. The plant is spread over 200 acres. The petition was filed by Purshottam Reddy of the 0smania Univcrsity@ Hyderabad. He argued that the …
imported mechanised treatment facilities are unlikely to solve India's waste disposal problems but will only serve the interests of the exporting countries, warns the head of the Mumbai-based Indian Environmental Association (iea). Soli J Arcievala, president, iea, speaking to Down To Earth on a recent visit to Goa, said India's …
the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) has published a study on management of municipal solid waste. The two year study was based on field surveys carried out in different towns and cities across the country. The cpcb has asked the state pollution control boards (spcbs) to direct civic bodies to …
Luis Nunez, laboratory chemist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, USA, has developed a simple, compact and cost-effective method of removing fine metal particles and radionuclides from industrial waste and streams. The method employs particles that are poured into a tank containing a process or waste solution, where the …
A division bench of the Supreme Court issued notices to about 8,712 industries in 28 industrial areas of Delhi which have not set up common effluent treatment plants. They now face the threat of being closed down in four weeks time. The industries which have been discharging effluents since 1985 …
The Madras High Court came down heavily on 44 dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, which have been ordered to close down for having failed to establish effluent treatment plants (ETPs). The court had, in March 1997, ordered all dyeing units in the area to install ETPs before …
in Delhi, it is estimated that everyday nearly 2,160 million litre of wastewater flows out of residences, educational establishments, offices, hospitals, hostels, hotels, industries, and other sources. Nearly 50 per cent of this wastewater carries food leftovers, excreta water, urine and other human and organic wastes. A new low-cost wastewater …
in india, 90 per cent of the water supplied to the towns and cities is polluted, out of which only 1.6 per cent gets treated, says the central pollution control board. Of the nation’s 3,119 towns and cities, only eight boast of complete sewage collection and treatment facilities. Hair-raising figures, …
uasb is a combination of physical and biological processes; the main feature of the former process is the separation of solids and gases from the liquid and that of the latter, degradation of decomposable organic matter under conditions which do not require oxygen. The treatment tank (see figure: Cross-section of …
• The Damodar is the most polluted river, carrying discharges from 43 major industries and scores of minor units. • In Delhi, 19,000 cubic metres (cu m) of water containing DDT derivatives from agriculture are dumped into the Yamuna daily. • Sixty-eight industrial units discharge 1,000 cu m of untreated …
• Low space requirement • Low sludge production with quick dewatering characteristics • Lesser and simpler electromechanical parts used, leading to low operation and maintenance costs • Low power requirements and ability to withstand long power failures • Sludge digestion quicker compared to conventional digesters • Generation of biogas, which …
• Aerobic systems: require aeration, are energy- and capital-intensive, do not result in any by-product, produce excessive sludge and are difficult to handle • Lagooning: requires extensive land • Well-designed ponds: treatment is partially aerobic and partially anaerobic; land and time requirements are high • Anaerobic systems: not as energy- …
It is a pity that instead of Indian researchers, it was a Dutch scientist who developed such a simple technology. India prides itself over its gobar gas plant legacy. When questioned as to why gobar gas technology was not extended to treat domestic sewage, officials from the ministry of non-conventional …
