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 …
an ink -removal technique developed by researchers at the University of Florida, usa, has opened the doors for the paper industry to reduce the chopping of trees and enhance profits by recycling more types of paper cheaply. The technique removes inks, pigments and dyes from many types of paper
the Haryana government is planning to use around 300 million gallons per day (mg/d) of treated sewage water for irrigation and artificial recharging of groundwater aquifers. Till now this untreated sewage water was being released into the Yamuna. At a recent workshop, a team of officials comprising five chief engineers …
goa has been unable to implement its Biodegradable Garbage Control Act of 1996, which was to have been implemented eighteen months ago. The state government says the law aimed at stopping plastics and non-biodegradable wastes from ending up in public drains, roads and fields has to be implemented by panchayats …
Electronic giant NEC of Japan has achieved its target of zero waste emissions status for its headquarters, six manufacturing plants and three research and development centres, all of which are located in Japan. The company set this target in 1985 and defines zero emissions to be reuse of at least …
the Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has recently notified a draft Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules 2000, to control hazards associated with backyard smelting and unauthorised repro-cessing of lead acid batteries. The provisions of the draft rules stipulate that battery manufacturers, importers and assemblers can collect one old …
Caught in the centre of furious public protests, a waste copper recycling plant in Goa has asked the international organisation Greenpeace to deal strictly with local citizens' protest groups. The move came after Greenpeace pledged its support to the protests. Meta Strips, the plant being set up in South Goa, …
a breakthrough research has found a method to extract nickel and cobalt from the waste ore that is left behind after chromium is extracted from the Sukhinda mines in Orissa. The process, discovered by the Central Scientific Research Laboratory's regional research lab in Bhubaneswar, will also render harmless the tonnes …
guwahati is all set to get a clean image with the launch of two ambitious projects that will gradually rid the city of garbage. Under the new schemes, waste collected from the city will be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity in two separate ventures. Guwahati-based North East Green Tech …
the disposal of plastics is proving a tough task for the city of Kawasaki in Japan. And the pile of crushed plastic bottles gets bigger every day at a municipal waste disposal facility near a road leading to the Tokyo Bay Aqualine expressway. Last February, the city began to separate …
fashion czar Giorgio Armani has already done it. Gap and Nike are doing it. And the Dutch-based clothing house C&A; is hoping to do it. Green fashion is finally coming of age. Environmental designer clothes no longer seems like a contradiction. And while designers stitch what Armani calls "the eco-compatible …
ban the plastic polybag and get rid of the plastic waste problem. Across the nation, there has been a public outcry for action. The media has dwelt on the issue ad nauseam . But the Union ministry of environment and forests ( mef ), instead of using this as an …
despite measures, hazardous waste generation continues to grow at the global level. This feeling was echoed by member states on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, dealing with the generation and trafficking of hazardous waste, held in Switzerland in the first week of December. In their …
wastepaper usually lands up in garbage bins all over the world. But, of late, in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, it has been finding its way elsewhere
Obsolete computers are posing an environmental problem in developed countries, specially the US. With faster and better machines being available almost every year, the number of old computers and peripherals being discarded are generating a lot of trash. Now Coniglairo Industries, a company based in Massachusetts, has developed a lightweight, …
in india, around 60,000 metric tonnes of lead from batteries are recycled illegally. Needless to say, they are done in smelting units situated in the backyards of residential areas. In 1994, the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) closed 110 such polluting backyard smelters in Delhi. Studies have revealed that their …
the us is facing a population explosion of a strange sort. The land of the birth of computers, is today choked with piles of its glorious invention. With no easy disposal method identified as yet, the mountain of obsolete personal computers ( pc s) is increasing everyday. As the life …
the wetlands of east Calcutta have become focus of environmentalists in the recent past when the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation proposed to build a water park by filling up a 50-year-old bheri (shallow fish pond) off the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The move is in complete violation of the West …
RECYCLING of plastic waste is crucial for efficient management of environment. Recognising this, Plastindia, an organisation of the plastic manufacturers in India has decided to fund the setting up of a Indian Centre for Plastic Environment (ICPE) in Hyderabad. The centre will develop new technologies for recycling plastic waste and …
better roads ahead: Delhi-based company, Tinna Oils and Chemicals Ltd has introduced a new bitumen modifier which improves the quality of roads and prolongs their lives by 2.5 times. According to Vijay Sekhri, managing director of the company, the new technique substantially improves the vital properties of bitumen and bituminous …
