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 …
it's a catch-22 situation. Although the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (tnpcb) wants local bodies to compost their waste, there is a problem of giving them the right place. A recent casualty is the much-touted Alandur municipality's waste-to-manure compost project. Citing a
An exhaustive life cycle analysis of players in the Indian caustic chlorine sector and its impact on environment. Deals extensively with the alarming issue of mercy pollution, its deadly effects. A comparative study with the global scenario.
a recent in-principle clearance to a gasification plant in Delhi has fuelled a major controversy. While environmental groups are up in arms about the "polluting and extravagantly expensive' project, Energy Developments Limited (edl) India
to ensure that Britain meets the targets laid by the European Commission(ec), the government has promised to allocate us $19.91 million for recycling schemes over the next two years. Environment secretary, Margaret Beckett has said taking the easy route, local councils were putting all waste in the landfill and not …
The Green Rating Project (grp) team knew from the beginning that a thorough rating process would require a set of parameters and methodology that would stand the test of time and the scrutiny of the industry as well as critics. There was no precedent to go by, therfore the team …
When it comes to pollution at the workplace, automobile companies explain it away by flashing iso 14001 certificates. What escapes unnoticed is the fact that they delegate most of the dirty work to vendors. grp has unearthed this startling fact after conducting an extensive research on various aspects of their …
Whenever a company is asked about its environment performance, it flashes its compliance record. True, compliance at the production plant has never been a problem for the Indian automobile sector
azadi can wait, but Dal Lake cannot. These words of Charles Goshen still inspires the volunteers of Green Kashmir, a non-governmental organisation floated by him to save Dal Lake from pollution. A few years ago, Goshen, a South African national, received threats from militants asking him to desist from highlighting …
What is extended producers responsibility ( epr ) concept? Under epr producers bear a degree of responsibility for all the environmental impacts of their products. They must take their products back at the end of their useful life either directly or through a third party. The manufacturers are also responsible …
More than a 100 million tonnes of plastic is produced world-wide each year. Though plastics have opened the way for a plethora of new inventions and devices it has also ended up clogging the drains and becoming a health hazard. Many countries, including India, are trying to increase the amount …
------------------------------------------------KEYA ACHARYAthe lack of knowledge on hospital waste management stems right from India's ministerial level, but Karnataka's minister of health and family welfare, Malakka Reddy, is ready to listen. "Most of our incinerators are not working. We have no dumpsites or trained personnel. Please advise us,' was his request to …
the European parliament has made amendments in a draft law making electronic equipment manufacturers responsible for recycling their products. The law will cover all electronic goods used in the European countries. It will encourage production of ecofriendly products that can be easily reused or recycled. "Manufacturers and consumers are going …
campaigners who waged a pitched battle against the proliferating plastic menace in this tourist state are left holding tonnes of plastic. They now pin their hopes on the changes in the law that could help tackle this problem. The government is planning to pass a law banning plastic bags below …
Thin is ugly. The people realised this when dealing with the scourge of plastic bags in the environment. But this realisation failed to be converted into concrete action. The Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules 1999 were supposed to do away with the menace of plastic bags, but on hindsight …
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, have developed a self- healing plastic that could be useful in repairing cracked plastic items and in recycling plastics. Most composite materials, out of which a variety of things ranging from aircraft wings to circuit boards are made, consist of fibres …
The Philippine government has introduced a new law that requires local government units (lgus) in Manila to reduce their waste disposal by 25 per cent within five years. To achieve this target, lgus must segregate, recycle, compost and reuse waste. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the country's president, also announced that a
toronto , the largest city in Canada, will become a zero waste city by 2010, according to Mel Lastman, the city's mayor. Task Force 2010, set up for the purpose, will recommend a comprehensive waste diversion plan to Toronto City Council by June 2001, in consultation with the people of …
the long-delayed, diluted bill to ban the use of recycled plastic bags was passed in the Delhi assembly recently. The Delhi plastic bags (manufacture, sale and usage) and non-biodegradable garbage (control) Bill, as it is called, bans recycled bags for carrying, storing or packing, both cooked and uncooked food, with …
the Union government notified the Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999, in September last year. They were supposed to do away with the menace of plastics. But a year down the line, it is evident that the rules have fallen flat. In fact, they may have abetted the growth …
