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 …
outside inter-State junk dealers Fed up with the lagging measures of the local self-government institutions here to set up sufficient number of treatment plants to recycle plastic and electronic waste, nearly 35 residents associations in the city have come together to make use of the same facilities available in other …
The proposed garbage treatment plant behind the Hira Petrol Pump has been objected to by several organisations and individuals in the past. A status quo order issued by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has temporarily stopped the work but the damage continues as a new report reveals the extent of …
To cost Rs. 8.50 crore for the municipality Namakkal Municipality has proposed to implement solid waste management at a cost of Rs. 8.50 crore. A resolution was passed during a meeting held recently. Municipal Chairman R. Karikalan said that solid waste collected from households was processed at the plant located …
These rules may be called the e-waste (Management) Rules, 2015. These rules shall apply to every manufacturer, producer, consumer, bulk consumer, collection centres, dealers, refurbishers, dismantler and recycler involved in manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, collection, storage and processing of e-waste or electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) listed in Schedule 1, …
Concern over handling of untreated waste The recent capacity enhancement of the biomedical treatment plant of the Kerala unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) at Manthuruthi, near Malampuzha, here has come as a major relief to the local community. The people had been concerned over the plant’s inability to …
It appears that the sky is the limit for Delhi’s growing mountains of trash. The Capital’s three sanitary landfills continue to grow by over 8,000 tonnes per day (TPD) way past their recommended capacities. Municipal corporations that operate the landfills at Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalswa have been unable to shut …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has restrained Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) from offloading garbage at Uruli Devachi's dumping site unless the veracity of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board's (MPCB) authorization for such dumping activity till December 2015, is established by the divisional commissioner. In an ad …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2015. These rules shall apply to every urban local body, all statutory towns, outgrowths in urban agglomerations as declared by the registrar general & census commissioner of India, notified areas/notified industrial townships, notified area committees, …
Residents of Sukhdev Vihar have won a long-drawn battle against a biomedical waste plant near their colony. Delhi government has refused to renew the contract of Synergy Waste Management Pvt Limited which expired on May 18. Residents said eight years of campaigning had finally of campaigning had finally reached a …
CALANGUTE: Calangute MLA Michael Lobo has appealed to NGOs to not hinder the work on the solid waste management plant being constructed atop the Calangute plateau. Briefing mediapersons at the site on Wednesday morning, he said the Saligao civic and consumer forum along with the Goa Foundation have filed a …
LUCKNOW: With payment issues between LMC and its contractor finally resolved, the latter has committed to begin operation of solid waste treatment plant in Shivri by June 20. The project, which started in 2007 under the Centre's JNNURM scheme, has been moving at snail's pace due to several procedural bottlenecks, …
The Delhi High Court first ordered the closure of the plant over possible health hazards and pollution concerns over two years ago. The 10-year contract of the city’s oldest biomedical waste treatment plant in Okhla, which caters to around 1,600 hospitals producing six-seven tonnes of waste daily, expires on Tuesday, …
SURAT : Following directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has lodged a complaint with the chief judicial magistrate here against Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) authorities including the municipal commissioner and operators of the municipal solid waste (MSW) plant at Khajod, Hanjar Biotech Energies …
The state government has prepared an action plan for improvement of sanitation and hygiene during Nabakalebara in Puri. On May 11, the housing and urban development (H&UD;) department sent the 22-page action plan to Puri district officials, including collector for implementation. Cleanliness around Jagannath Temple, on Grand Road and beach …
Lone firm aspiring for the project fails to impress authorities with its technical know-how The MC had proposed to set up solid waste management plant at Rs 109 crore and designated Bhagtanwala dumpyard as a site for the same. There was only one Mumbai-based firm Ess Ell Infrastructure in the …
Nagpur: Scientific management and 600 tonnes of solid waste that goes untreated in city continue to be a major problem for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). The NMC's move to appoint another firm to treat the city's solid waste received a blow as the only private firm - SL Infrastructure …
Unmindful of the protests lodged by the residents of Bhagtanwala, the Municipal Corporation carried on with its exercise to pave way for the setting up of solid waste management plant today. A team of civic body officials, headed by Municipal Commissioner Pardeep Sabharwal, opened the technical bid of the Mumbai-based …
PUNE: The civic standing committee on Tuesday approved six small garbage processing units to be set up in Bhavani Peth area. A private company will install four units with a capacity of processing five metric tonne garbage daily and two units with a capacity of three metric tonne. The company …
NGT had served three-month ultimatum to the MMC to put its garbage treatment plant at Headland Sada in order VASCO: Nature has finally got back at Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) after years of violation of environmental laws by the council. In an unprecedented move the Goa State Pollution Control Board …
There has been a 16 per cent increase in daily generation of bio-medical waste in 2012-13 as against a marginal increase of 0.33 per cent the year ago, Lok Sabha was informed today. Karnataka was the highest producer of bio-waste at 83,614 kg per day, followed by Maharashtra, which produced …