Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally with programs such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) providing funding for many WtE projects across the world. In India alone, 31 such facilities are expected to be funded, even as their technological appropriateness …
Overtakes HP to top in the guide for 2012 Wipro, the Bangalore-based company with interests in consumer goods, electronics hardware and IT services among others, has topped the 'Guide to Greener Electronics’ list for 2012 released by global non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace. The company, which previously participated in the Indian …
PANJIM: The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa is going to see zero tolerance to plastic waste with Panjim civic authorities chalking out a plan of action to reduce and re-cycle every bit of waste generated during the ten-day festivities. This eco-friendly initiative, for the first time by …
Daily Earning Dips To 100-200 As Okhla Project Uses Up 1,300 Tonnes Tehreen Nisha has spent her early years watching people sort the waste at the Okhla landfill site every day. About 150 families of ragpickers living on the periphery of Tughlaqabad village depend on waste from this site for …
A small group of corporate bigwigs and social entrepreneurs on Thursday came forward to provide a ‘roadmap’ to the State government to put in place an efficient and sustainable waste management system for Bangalore. Biocon Chairperson and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar- Shaw and V Ravichandar of the Bangalore City Connect …
Waste-to-energy plants that are touted by the Government as the only solution to the city’s multiplying waste and shrinking waste dumps have taken away livelihood opportunities from a large number of waste-pickers and worse still have resulted in a number of children being deprived of an education, claims a study. …
Goonj, a voluntary organisation working with poor communities and helping preserve the environment by recycling cloth and other waste material was given the ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year India 2012’ award here on Tuesday. The award was given by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organisation of the …
PANJIM: Velsao panchayat in Cortalim constituency will be the first to have door to door collection of dry waste as part of a pilot project by Department of Science, Technology & Environment in collaboration with the Directorate of panchayats. Speaking to media persons, after the meeting with officials of the …
Northern Ireland's second largest shopping centre, which serves 14 million shoppers a year, has been recognised for achieving zero waste to landfill. CastleCourt teamed up with waste management company WasteSolve to convert its average annual 500 tonnes of waste, 86% of which went to landfill, into new energy and products. …
As part of its cleanliness drive, the government is planning to declare some major areas in the Kathmandu Valley ‘waste-free zone’ within the current fiscal year. The Solid Waste Management Technical Support Centre under the Ministry of Urban Development has been working to make four major areas — the Office …
China's first official plan for hazardous-waste control was released on Thursday. Four ministries, including the Environmental Protection Ministry, published the plan, which aims to determine the exact amount and distribution of hazardous waste nationwide; to increase the level of standardized management; and to reduce the environmental risk it might bring …
District administration yet to start recycling units under MAP Not a single plastic recycling unit has till date started functioning under any of the local bodies in the district though the district administration had promised to set up a few of them in different parts of the district as part …
JAMMU: J&K; State Pollution Control Board (JKSPCB) today organised a public hearing at Phase II, IGC Samba near the project site in village Madhera in connection with setting up of an integrated common hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facility. Regional Director, SPCB, Shoket Choudhary while speaking, highlighted the …
Despite the heavy pressure from the “plastic lobby”, the Delhi government has notified the blanket ban on plastic bags. A senior Delhi government official on Thursday confirmed that the notification regarding blanket ban had been issued on October 23. “The ban had been notified on October 23 and the process …
Impasse in Mandur; 5,000 tonnes of waste left uncleared in City At least 5,000 tonnes of garbage were lying uncleared in the City on Friday due to the unrest at the Mandur garbage dumping yard. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been selling about 35 per cent of the …
German sportswear company Puma announced a range of biodegradable shoes and clothes on Monday, seeking to lead in protecting nature as it tries to catch up with rivals Nike and Adidas in sales. The company, praised by United Nations reports as a corporate leader in trying to limit environmental damage, …
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara on Tuesday claimed that its garbage segregation strategy has met with ‘partial success’ and that there was a huge demand for wet waste. As reports of segregation failing in many parts of the City appeared in the media the Palike put up a brave front and …
The 2012 World’s Worst Pollution Problems report sets out to quantify the human health impacts from major sources of hazardous pollution in low to middle-income countries. In particular the focus is on sites in the developing world where toxic pollution has occurred because of industrial activity. This evaluation of industries …
44 tonnes of granules have piled up at shredding units Huge quantities of plastic granules remain unutilised in the city as the civic authorities could not get the approval of the Public Works Department for using them for road works. Conversion of plastic refuse into granules was introduced in the …
The Union government on Wednesday pleaded in the Supreme Court for a partial lifting of the ban on tourist activities in core areas of tiger reserve forests. It sought permission to have 20 per cent of the area under tourism. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Ministry of Environment and …
