Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Each person generates about a kilogramme of household waste everyday, according to the first national survey solid waste survey carried out in urban centres of Bhutan by the department of urban development and engineering services (DUDES). The survey, which was conducted from November 2007 to January 2008, in 10 urban …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Nationalist Congress Party president and Badarpur MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Tuesday met Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna and urged him to immediately order stopping of construction of the Jaitpur landfill site at Tajpur Pahari in his constituency as it poses a major environmental threat to the fragile ecology …
Mumbai, August 19 The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has identified six new dumping grounds for the entire Mumbai Mertropolitan Region (MMR), in an effort to end the solid waste generation problem the region is facing. The sites identified in Bhiwandi (on Thane-Bhiwandi Road), Ulhasnagar-Ambrnath, Kalyan (Shil Patha Road), …
THRISSUR: Instead of decentralised arrangements for the treatment and processing of waste by Local Self-help Groups in each district, a centralised processing arrangement for a few districts or for each district was mooted by Thrissur District Collector V K Baby. He presented the idea at the meeting of Thrissur Mayor, …
The Dhaka City Corporation will receive around 100 CNG-run environmentally-friendly garbage trucks and 25 compactors, used in waste reduction, from the Japan government within a couple of months, corporation officials said. A Japanese team is now working in Bangladesh for this purpose and a memorandum of understanding, to this effect, …
KOCHI: The Ernakulam Sessions Court prohibited the dumping of waste at Padiyath Basin waste collection yard of the Kochi Corporation near the Convent Junction. The order was issued by Sessions Court Judge D Pappachan on a petition filed by Friends of Environment secretary D B Binu and Mohammedkunj of Noor …
Neha Sinha New Delhi, August 13 Now, DPCC can search, confiscate material from illegal plastic manufacturing and recycling units in city Giving its ruling on arguably the city's biggest choker and polluter, plastics, the Delhi High Court has given more teeth to the normally toothless Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC). …
JAYANTA BASU Airports, railway stations, malls and fast food outlets have to take an active role in plastic waste management, the state environment department has decided. The department has asked all municipalities and municipal corporations to issue directives to malls, airports, railway stations and fast food centres to make arrangements …
Mumbai, August 9 Finding an ecological solution to reuse polythene and plastic waste, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation laid a 100-metre stretch of road at Dadar using plastic and asphalt. This stretch on Prof V S Agashe Road near the Kohinoor Technical Institute in Dadarwas laid by the civic body's Road …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday tightened norms regulating use and recycling of plastic bags in the Capital to check their indiscriminate use as they pose a serious health hazard and pollute the environment. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice T. S. Thakur and Justice Siddharth …
By Bharti Patel With rapid urbanisation, India is all set to witness a four to five fold rise in waste generation in the coming years. A little known Conservative councillor, representing a ward in London, UK, named Lucy Ivimy, recently provoked a debate in the media and among general citizens …
Mahima Puri & Anirvan Ghosh NEW DELHI/BANGALORE FLUSH with funds and the confidence reposed by investors, the Indian clean tech sector is emerging as a new segment with bagful of job opportunities. The growth of this greenfield industry is creating demand for scientists, engineers, lawyers, business graduates and entrepreneurs. "The …
The landfill is an unavoidable component in MSW Management and its planning and design, construction, operation & maintenance involves technical skills and safety measures in terms of health and environmental protection. The Municipal Solid wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000 specify relevant points with regard to site selection for proposed …
Set to change: A view of the garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, where a waste processing facility is to be set up. Chennai: The Chennai Corporation will float fresh tenders for an integrated solid waste processing plant at Kodungaiyur, Mayor M. Subramanian said on Wednesday. A resolution related to the waste …
Basavaraj Itnaal For a city that boasts of IT hegemony in the country, Bangalore has a dismal record of garbage management. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP), whose obligatory function is to collect, transport and dispose of the municipal solid waste (MSW), is apparently caught up in the politics of …
