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 …
E-waste has been defined as “waste electrical and electronic equipment, whole or in part or rejects from their manufacturing and repair process, which are intended to be discarded”. Whereas Electrical and electronic equipment has been defined as “equipment which is dependent on electrical currents or electro-magnetic fields to be fully …
While they are a step in the right direction, the new e-waste regulations contain no specific guidelines on many crucial issues and risk falling flat, say experts. “We fear that companies might set up token take-back systems which are not really accessible to consumers. In addition, there is no financial …
These rules E-waste have been notified with primary objective to channelize the E-waste generated in the country for environmentally sound recycling which is largely controlled by the un-organized sector who are adopting crude practices that results into higher pollution and less recovery, thereby causing wastages of precious resources and damage …
Some entrepreneurs across the country are building businesses based on the belief that garbage -- once destined to rot in a landfill -- can be repurposed into profitable products. Americans produced about 250 million tons of trash in 2010, recycling and composting about 34 percent of that total, according to …
This regulation shall be called “The Waste Prevention and Management Regulation, 2012”. This Regulation shall: establish procedures to implement the purpose of the Waste Prevention and Management Act, 2009; identify roles and areas of implementation of the Implementing Agencies for the purpose of establishing a sound waste management system including …
Gurgaon, India’s aspiring lower Manhattan, may soon end up with no water, but overflowing sewage. In 2006, the water level in Gurgaon had fallen to 51 metre below ground level. And if the water table plunges to 200 metre, the industrial and upscale residential township would be left with nothing …
With the rules for proper disposal and recycling of electronic waste to come into force from May 1, the Tamil Nadu Government has in place the systems and processes, according to the Environment Minister, Mr B.V. Ramanaa. Addressing the Assembly following the debate on the demand for grants to Environment …
A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday to force the Obama administration to finalize new rules regulating the containment and disposal of coal ash, a power plant byproduct activists say threatens public health. Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Integrity Project, and several other groups want the …
“BJP must add environment growth in manifesto for MCD polls” Environment groups and waste-recycling workers have demanded that the Bharaitya Janata Party change its stands on operating waste-to-energy plants in the Capital and include measures that promote sustainable environmental growth in its manifesto for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi …
Tackling the unfriendly plastics first, Maradu Municipality has tied up with Shakti Paper Mills that will take away plastic waste collected from each household. Starting from May, the Kudumbasree workers in various groups will be collecting only plastic waste from households. The number of times the plastic waste will be …
The University of Madras, in association with the University of Northampton, United Kingdom, will set up a centre for waste management where research in the area of disposal of waste, particularly e-waste will be carried out. Nick Petforg, vice-chancellor, University of Northampton, who was in the city recently to sign …
Bulk users now required to file annual returns by June-end Bulk consumers of electrical and electronic equipment will now have to ensure that e-waste is deposited with the distributors or authorised collection centres, given to the registered dismantlers or recyclers, or sent back to the producers through pick-up or take-back …
Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red. The party’s latest posters asking for power to be generated from waste has drawn the ire of NGO Chintan, which says BJP’s agenda is anti-public. “The party has not yet understood the basic scientific concept of …
The United States lead recycling industry will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to comply with tightening environmental rules but the pressure of rising costs eventually may force some output cuts or closures, according to industry experts. Some firms in the U.S., particularly those without well-established collection systems for old …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has fined 59 industrial units for unlawfully storing and disposing large quantities of hazardous waste on their premises. The industries have been asked by MPCB to pay the fine (amount not specified) and have been directed to send the hazardous waste to common treatment …
Need for setting up plastic re-cycling unit stressed The need to evolve ways to tackle effectively the growing threat to the ecology of the Nilgiris, particularly its forests, from plastics was emphasised by the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Protection and Vigilance), Lakshmi Narayan, here on Wednesday. He was …
Tons of wires, some burnt and some half-used with the copper jutting out, dozens of old mobile phones abandoned on shelves of hostels, hundreds of broken capacitors and plenty of old P3 computers — these are merely some things that comprise the vast mass of e-waste generated from colleges, a …
Take a good look at your shelves and the hidden corners of your cupboards. You are bound to find at least one gadget that you had hoarded simply because it had lived up to its worth or because you had replaced it with a newer model. A survey by Nokia …
In what may turn out to be a boon for developing countries, scientists claim to have created a device which can generate electricity from waste water. A team at Pennsylvania State University in the US says the technology would simultaneously treat the water and the process could be used to …
