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 state urban local bodies department has sought inputs from 78 state municipal bodies, including MCG, to prepare a state-level master plan for an integrated solid waste management system, to be reviewed and approved by the National Green Tribunal. Officials say most existing solid waste treatment plants do not meet …
A new study has revealed that the most common soaps, shampoos and detergents do not harm the environment. Senior researcher Hans Sanderson, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, said that humans use several million tons of surfactants a year on a global scale, which amounts to billions of kilos, so …
HALDWANI: Udham Singh Nagar administration plans to install an advanced garbage treatment plant in Rudrapur in collaboration with a Delhi-based private firm. The plant will primarily treat plastic wastes to generate electricity, diesel and biodegradable coal tar. Plastic wastes including polythene will be segregated from organic wastes. While polythene will …
The NDA govt has identified 118 towns as a first target to achieve total sanitation including water waste treatment and solid waste management After being rapped by the Supreme Court for its approach to clean the Ganga, the Narendra Modi government has placed before it a blueprint of short-, medium- …
Plastic waste collected in gunny bags and piles of other refuses could be seen stacked in many parts of the city roads. Heaps of non-degradable waste, including plastic, is piling up in many parts of the city even as the city corporation is awaiting assistance from the State government for …
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which is setting up eight wet waste processing units, does not seem to have made much headway in achieving waste segregation at source. The Karnataka High Court had directed BBMP to open garbage processing units at nine places in the city at the earliest. A …
Panaji: A team from the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) on Thursday inspected the premises of Goa medical college and hospital (GMC) at Bambolim, to check whether bio-medical waste was treated properly and found that it was done as per the prescribed procedures. GSPCB had received a complaint alleging …
PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control board is likely to conduct an inspection of the GMC, Bambolim Wednesday after reports surfaced that its solid waste management plant had broken down, a charge denied by GMC officials. Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that team would be sent for inspection to check …
In view of the existing garbage treatment plant in Margao and the government's plans to launch a treatment plant in both the districts, the Margao municipal council (MMC) appeared hesitant to give permission for an ambitious plan of the Goa state urban development agency to set up a plant in …
The city corporation will soon commission a study to assess how much garbage has been dumped in the two landfills Kodungaiyur and Pallikaranai. This will be the first time the civic body is compiling data to understand the quantity and type of waste generated. This, officials said, will help them …
A waste-to-energy plant where power supply is generated from garbage is likely to be commissioned by January 2015. The plant in Venkatamangalam is expected to significantly reduce the strain on open spaces in some of the bigger urban pockets in the city’s southern suburbs such as Tambaram and Pallavaram by …
The general body of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Thursday rejected the civic administration's proposal to develop garbage dumping ground and biomedical waste treatment plant on a 12-acre plot at Puikhadi on the outskirts of the city. The decision is a setback to the KMC's efforts to tackle the …
Before gaining ground, the much-hyped 'Freedom from Waste' project, launched by the actor Aamir Khan, has landed in controversy. Volunteers roped in by the Jodhpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) have accused the civil body of reneging upon its commitment and exploitation. A joint initiative by the administration and JMC the clean …
Porvorim: The government is making efforts to make Goa totally garbage-free by December 19, 2015, chief minister Manohar Parrikar assured the Goa legislative assembly on Tuesday. Replying to the discussion on the demands of science, technology and environment, Parrikar, who is the minister for science, technology and environment, said that …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has recommended that the buffer zone around the Moshi garbage depot in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) can be reduced to 300 m. People have built their houses and housing schemes have come up around the depot. These residents have demanded that the …
The City’s garbage crisis may now take a toll on the wildlife around the Turahalli minor forest near Banashankari. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has reportedly decided to set up a garbage-processing unit on 10 acres of land in BM Kaval. This area in Banashankari 6th Stage has been …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) standing committee approved two %new garbage processing plants on Tuesday, barely hours after Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villagers ended their six-day agitation against garbage dumping in their village limits. Municipal officials said that the total garbage the city produced had doubled in the last …
The National Green Tribunal directed DMRC to explain why they dumped construction waste on Yamuna floodplains and why they shouldn't be fined Rs 5 lakh for it. NGT had issued a show-cause notice to DMRC after petitioner Manoj Misra submitted several photographs of concrete dumped on the riverbed along NH- …
Alvares tags Saligao project as most expensive in the country and that proposal doesn’t speak about collection, transport and proper generation of different types of waste; D’Cruz suggests govt should instead focus on setting up composting plants in every village PANJIM: While Goa government has trumpeted a garbage-free Goa through …
NASHIK: The Trimbak civic body has proposed treatment of waste produced from various religious functions at the compost plant run by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC). Based on the May 15 orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western Zone, Pune, the Trimbak Municipal Council (TMC) had on May 26 …
