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 …
Bowing to the pressure of the Dakshina Kannada fisherfolk in Karnataka, the state government has finally directed Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) to instal a modern recycling plant and build a one-km long open canal for discharging effluents into the Arabian Sea after removing MRPL's pipelines. The MRPL has …
How large is the problem of urban sanitation in the world today? Sanitation in urban areas of the world has reached a crisis point. Current predictions indicate that in 20-30 years' time, a majority of the world's population would reside in urban squatter colonies. These people are often not acknowledged …
AFTER years of being called a mere "dogooder" activity, recycling has turned into a profitable industry for cities across the US, according to the information provided by a new study. Only two years ago, one of the few good reasons cities could find for bearing the expense of recycling was …
THERE is a world-wide philosophy of solid waste management based on the principles of waste minimisation and recovery or recycling. These values are creating a basis for joint ventures that will bring together representatives of government, communities, private firms, institutes and international agencies, to address the crises of increasing refuse …
WHETHER reshuffling of the Union Cabinet on the eve of the crucial Sept 18-22 conference in Geneva on transboundary movement of toxic wastes had any effect on the event's outcome is more a matter of conjecture. But it definitely reflects a recurring malaise in the Indian government's attitude, where political …
THIS is possible only in Japan, perhaps. Some sage wrote scriptures on a piece of paper in 1247. And 487 years later, the same paper was used by a scholar for taking down notes. If you don't believe this, see it for yourself in the Paper Museum in Tokyo. Japan …
AFTER cashmere, alpaca and mohair, the latest fad in the global textile market may well be recycled plastic clothes. Going by the recent developments in the chemical and textile industries, it may not be long before a sweater or a jacket made from recycled plastic bottles becomes an essential fashion …
MANY industrialized countries regard their developing counterparts as dumpyards - destined receivers of hazardous by products and waste generated by their hi-tech lifestyle and consumerism. This technically simple-minded and morally irresponsible point of view has led them to resist any attempt to strengthen the Basel Convention, which provides for a …
THE Union ministry of environment and forests has finalised a strategy for the formulation of a Waste Minimisation Circle (WMC) consisting of industrialists in a particular region to encourage them to share information on economically-viable and efficient waste reduction systems. The modalities for forming a WMC are based upon the …
Tourism is dealing a body blow to the Maldivian government's waste management, as it leads to piling up of garbage every year. LTU, a Germah airline, has offered help in an innovative way. As passengers arrive in the Maldives, it issues them 30 litre garbage bags. The waste that the …
LAST week, Australians admitted to their interest in selling hazardous waste to India for recycling. It is telling that hazardous waste has been dumped in India before, often indiscriminately and irresponsibly. This lackadaisical attitude towards toxins was the reason for the signing of the Basel Treaty on the Transfer of …
AS THE sun rises over Delhi, 16-year-old Radha slings a gunny sack over her shoulder and ambles off to work. Her destination is the back-lanes of Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, where she and her friends rummage through roadside trash and rubbish dumps for tangled wire, cardboard, bottle caps, dry pens, …
Recycled paper is becoming popular, attest NGOs Tara (a division Development Alternatives) and Sewa Ashram, who are running handmade recycled paper units. Both these organisations do Instead, paper sorting is done accord Ing to the required colour, that is waste of blue paper is used for making blue paper. To …
The ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) has recently commenced a $5.5 million project, funded by the Global Environmental Facility, to convert municipal and industrial waste into energy. A national bio-energy board has been constituted under the chairpersonship of the secretary, MNES, to monitor the implementation. The first phase of …
Until recently, the Capital's Tihar jail was notorious for vicious outbreaks among its inmates. But since April this year, it has made news for an entirely unlikely reason: taking up, among other things, a programme for converting prison garbage into manure. Leading the image turnabout at Tihar is Kiran Bedi, …
WHILE greens have been carping themselves hoarse against the "throwaway" culture, a scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada has calculated that disposable cups -- polystyrene or paper -- may be more ecofriendly after all (Nature, Vol 369, No 6473). Comparing the energy consumed in manufacturing reusable ceramic cups …
ALTHOUGH most Bombayites have welcomed the monsoon clouds, scrap merchants, who are a vital link in the waste recycling process, are in a less buoyant mood: huge quantities of scrap deteriorate during the monsoons because of inadequate storage facilities. In the later half of May, scrap traders requested the Maharashtra …
Waste has become a global problem, and is demanding curative technologies that require almost preternatural efficiency to execute. And that keep collapsing nevertheless. Duales System Deutschland, Germany's hyped-up recycling programme for packaging material, for instance, burst almost immediately after it boomed, bloated with more quantities of junk than it was …
THERE are several kinds of toxic wastes that are dumped in Asia. According to Greenpeace, among the noxious wastes that have been shipped to Asia since 1990 are aluminium, cadmium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, other non-ferrous and ferrous metals, ash and residues, computer scrap, plastic, medical and radioactive wastes. The …
A TECHNOLOGY to treat domestic sewage, in existence since the '60s, has been put to new use: treating and recycling wastewater from public urinals. Mukesh Khare of the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi claims the rotating biological contactor (RBC) process can eliminate foul odour from the urinals, especially in …
