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 …
tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's decision to resuscitate the 14.85-megawatt Perungudi waste-to-energy (wte) plant has been greeted with dismay by environmentalists. On January 31, 2003 the state government cleared the project. This was preceded by a presentation made by Energy Developments (edl) Private Limited, the company promoting the plant, …
Managing a village commons is difficult. But just imagine managing urban waste as a common property resource. This is exactly what the common effluent treatment plants (cetps) aim to do. Collect the waste of individual units from an industrial estate and treat it in a common location. Members
#1 Who is the polluter? What is their waste-typology? This is the first critical and often make-or-break step. Get the property rights regime wrong and it is clear that nothing will work, is the advice of common property managers in rural areas. It is the same for a cetp. Delhi …
If cetps are the answer, how do we make them work? The choice of technology, however important, is not the only challenge ahead. The key is to build a much stronger framework for common waste governance. In Delhi, for instance, a legal framework exists. But it is so convoluted that …
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has instructed state pollution control boards to set up cetps in industrial estates. Central assistance of 25 per cent is given, …
a new technique may solve one of the biggest snags for a plastic recycling company: the numerous variety of plastic waste, ranging from tough transparent cola bottles to soft, light polystyrene packaging. When an assortment of different plastic polymer is melted, its various components don't mix well. They solidify into …
In clearing the tenth five-year plan recently, the Union cabinet gave the green light to a programme that seeks to metamorphose the leather industry into an environment-friendly sector. While the tanning process will no longer cause pollution, leather itself would become a comple tely biodegradable product if this plan is …
Two companies have developed a novel way of dealing with the menace of tetrapaks: recycling them into boards called Ecolink. Pune-based Tetra Pak India Private Limited (tpil), along with Mumbai-based Deluxe Recycling (India) Private Limited (dripl), have set up India's first tetrapak recycling and board manufacturing plant in Palghar near …
Ten European Union (eu) states have shown little urgency in adopting a law on recycling cars. Taking serious note of this, the European Commission has issued formal warnings to them. The countries are France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Britain, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Finland. The eu's end-of-life vehicles law should …
Each British household generates over one tonne of waste per year, reveals a report of uk's department of environment. Worse, only 11 per cent of this is recycled. According to the document, the amount of municipal waste generated in the uk is up 2.7 per cent from last year, with …
mohan Meakin Limited (mml) was in the news recently. But for all the wrong reasons. The Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) had ordered the distillery to be shut down in early May 2002 on the grounds that the unit was not following norms for the discharge of its effluent. The …
a delay in setting into motion a solid waste management project has led to the piling up of 16,000 metric tonnes of untreated garbage in Shimla. Residents have raised a stink, complaining about the foul smell emanating from the trash heap. People staying near the site also fear the outbreak …
the biotoilet technology introduced for solving sewage-caused pollution problem in Jammu and Kashmir's Dal lake has failed due to government apathy. The technology was introduced by the j&k; Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (j&k; lwda) in 1999. On a trial basis, 10 houseboats were fitted with floating septic biotoilet tanks. …
Segregate your waste or pay up. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) has sounded this alert to all Mumbaikars. To make solid waste management work in the city, bmc is penalising institutions, housing societies and individuals who are not separating their waste as per the amended section 368 of the bmc …
A us $108.8 million global fund has been raised to tackle environmental problems and nuclear waste in northwest Russia. At a recent conference in Brussels, the European Commission pledged us $50.33 million for the fund and Russia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands offered us $10.06 million each. The …
medical establishments in the country blindly setting up incinerators and mindlessly burning biomedical waste have become commonplace. But the recently inaugurated centralised biomedical waste treatment facility at Bhaunti near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh
No discourse on development is possible today without adequate consideration of the environment component. There seems to be, however, a lack of basic understanding that environment and industrialisation or infrastructure development are complementary, not mutually exclusive, aspects of a country's growth and its people's well-being. The lookout, therefore, has been …
Who is responsible for recycling glass bottles? Pubs or breweries? A uk High Court clarified this knotty situation while passing its verdict in a recent case. The court said that pubs rather than the breweries should take care of their packaging waste. And although Valpak, the industry's largest recycling organisation, …
