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 …
AHMEDABAD: After a campaign against litterbugs and procurements to spruce up waste collection in the city, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) now has a roadmap for a zero waste Ahmedabad by 2031. The document, the only of its kind in the country was prepared with the help of United Nations Center …
Increasing misuse of chemicals is causing health and environmental damage especially in emerging economies and governments must do more to carry out a promised clean-up by 2020, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Production and use of chemicals - from plastics to pesticides - is shifting to developing nations …
A set of floating inverted skyscraper-like structures capable of coverting ocean litter into energy have been designed by architects. The 'seascrapers' would be self-sustaining mobile facilities floating in the ocean. Much like icebergs, they would remain submerged largely beneath the surface, but would actively seek to collect materials such as …
Don’t rubbish it In its struggle to clear the mess that Bangalore has become in the wake of the ongoing garbage crisis, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) seems to have become totally oblivious of other ways of getting rid of the rubbish. Not just that, the cash-strapped Palike appears …
Residents of Maraimalai Nagar in Chennai can now hope to get gold without spending any money. All they need to invest is some time and store as many empty plastic sachets, polythene covers and other plastic waste below the thickness of 40 microns. The local body will give a gram …
Coca-Cola has joined a national recycling label packaging scheme in a bid to educate consumers about the recyclability of its plastic bottles. The drinks brand will initially adopt the on-pack recycling label (OPRL) logo, administered by the British Retail Consortium (BRC), on 500ml bottles of Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Diet …
As the digital switchover approaches, Ireland is set to see television CRT waste rocket by more than 25% as people make the decision to upgrade or change their set. The estimations come from WEEE Ireland, the electrical and battery recycling scheme who say that 500,000 televisions were bought by Irish …
Zero Waste Scotland says the fund aims to provide convenient and easy to use recycling facilities in busy public places. Zero Waste Scotland claims that separating different types of waste materials for recycling is easy to do and already done by many at home. It hopes that this measure will …
Three months after new rules on collection and disposal of electronic waste came into effect, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has collected seven tonnes of ewaste. It has tied up with a private firm for recycling of the ewaste in Roorkee. The Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi …
New Delhi: New electronic waste management and handling rules were implemented acrossthecountry on May 1 this year. The new laws make it mandatory for producers of electronic goods to take back e-waste under the extended producers responsibility. However, Delhi, as one of the biggest producers of e-waste in the country …
More than half the bulky waste taken to household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs) could be re-used says the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). According to a report released yesterday called the 'Composition and re-usability of bulky waste in the UK,' there is a common misconception that when bulky …
While bottles of mineral water are increasingly becoming a major cause of pollution, not much is being done about it. A reason for this is that the entire focus of Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, is on polythene bags and their thickness and that the rules to ensure …
There is only one such facility, named IMAGE, at Palakkad to handle the biomedical waste generated in hospitals and medical institutions across the State The Kerala Enviro Infrastructure Limited, which runs a Common Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility (CHWTSDF) at Ambalamedu, has submitted a detailed project report to …
Standard Chartered Bank, which is targeting improvements in energy and resource efficiency in its buildings, has taken a stake in a wind farm to source green energy for an office in Chennai. It has taken a 26 per cent stake in Green Infra to source over 1.5 million units of …
KOLKATA: Concerned over the increasing generation of electronic waste (e-waste) in the city, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has taken up an initiative to conduct workshops amongst all the stakeholders to generate awareness for proper and effective disposal of e-waste. In the city, a large quantity of e-waste …
The government will distribute bins among the residents of the capital's Gulshan and Baridhara areas tomorrow to manage household wastes to build a clean Dhaka city. The Department of Environment (DoE) under the environment and forests ministry will distribute the dustbins under the 3R (waste reduce, reuse and recycle) Pilot …
Rawalpindi administration on Monday entered into yet another agreement aimed at managing the solid waste in the city allowing United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) to collect, dispose and recycle it in the populous city. UN-HABITAT in collaboration with Akhtar Hameed Khan Memorial Trust (AHKMT) would launch its pilot project …
Efforts are underway to establish a garbage recycling plant in order to maintain the cleanliness of the City. The first ever-recycling plant would be setup in Gharibabad and Rehmatabad areas, and would be operated by a committee, while Akhtar Memorial Trust would inspect the area, finalizing the project with solid …
A reduction in household waste and an increase in recycling in has led to a decline in waste to landfill England of 11%. Provisional results from Defra, released today comparing figures between the financial year 2010/11 and the calendar year January to December 2011, in order to negate seasonal fluctuations, …
A planning application to build a £20m Energy from Waste (EfW) facility in Cornwall has been submitted. GreenEfW Investments Limited aims to provide a 70,000 tonne a year materials recovery facility (MRF) at the Cornwall Bio-Park development in Scorrier. The plant will use advanced thermal treatment technology to recover energy …
