Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Eleven people have been jailed one-month each for breaching sanitation laws in the Kumasi Metropolis. The Kumasi Mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi, disclosed that the eleven people were caught dumping heaps of waste at unapproved sites. According to him, a task force of the Kumasi Metropolis Assembly (KMA), who are always …
THE College of Engineering and Technology (COET) through the Department of Chemical and Mining Engineering in Collaboration with AGENDA for Environment has come up with National Waste Management Strategy to reduce the impact of waste on public health and environment, resource recovery from waste and resource efficiency in waste management. …
Margao: When the state-of-the-art solid waste management plant at Sonsoddo managed by Fomento Green became operational in December 2012, it was believed that the ordeal of the residents of the vicinity, who had borne the stench and stink emanating from the rotting garbage for years, would come to an end. …
NEW DELHI: The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has floated a tender to hire a private agency for developing an e-municipal solid waste monitoring system that would track the real-time location of garbage collectors and even the current status of dhalaos. For a long time, east Delhi residents have been …
Margao: The Nuvem village panchayat constituted it’s mandatory garbage management committee during the gram sabha on Sunday. Nuvem deputy sarpanch Manuel Borges said gram sabha members refused to approve the audit report as a part of the funds provided by the Directorate of Science and Technology were not utilised by …
On Saturday February 3, 2018, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri announced to over 60 000 PHD Ministries followers that her ministry was working on ways to introduce a mandatory community service sentence for litter bugs. This, she said, had been necessitated by the continued littering of streets …
Nagpur: Ahead of the Swachh Survekshan-2018 to be done by a Central government team in the city from February 15, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided not to collect non-segregated garbage from bulk waste generators. The civic body has also started the process to introduce the norm for residential …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/02/2018 regarding steps to deal with garbage in Delhi. In the affidavit filed by South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) it is stated that the SDMC has initiated action …
Last year, residents had recovered around 25 huge bags of garbage, mostly with beer bottles from the area. Mumbai: The Charkop lake, which was a flourishing bird site before, has been reduced to a virtual dumping site. While citizens have regularly held clean up drives to create awareness about the …
The Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly has rolled out a new policy to help rid the assembly of filth. The new policy dubbed “Wrap Your Waste, Own a dustbin” is the provision of litter bins for households while encouraging them to secure the content of their bins with polythene bags to …
The county government of Nairobi has partnered with the Rwandan High Commission to Kenya to improve the cleanliness in the city. Rwanda High Commissioner to Kenya Ambassador James Kimonyo said that the partnership has been informed by the need to replicate the steps taken by his country in keeping its …
The Jaipur Municipal Corporation(JMC) is violating the directions of the Supreme Court and the Solid Waste Handling Rules in a bid to bag the top slot in the Swachh Survekshan-2018. The civic body is burning garbage to keep the city spick and span. However, the waste cannot be burnt under …
Despite the government establishing systems for collection and transportation of the increasing waste, which is mainly driven by rising urbanisation in Kigali and secondary cities, recycling companies said lack of waste sorting at source is hampering their work. A Kigali City assessment showed an average of 300 tonnes of waste …
The state of sanitation in Accra is increasingly becoming disheartening by the day and continue to pose serious health threats to residents of the Capital and an embarrassment to the Country in general. Opposite the luxurious Paloma Hotel at the Ring Road Central, lies the handiwork of unidentified citizens, a …
Several places deal with increasing primates’ menace Every day, Vallish V. Kaushik, conservationist and adviser to the BBMP, gets at least five calls from citizens reporting monkeys straying into residential complexes. Localities in the vicinity of Bannerghatta Road, Jnanabharathi and Yelahanka have seen a rise in such incidents. What’s making …
The state is all set to have its first “waste to power” project by March this year at the Sugarfed plant in Nakodar. The decision in this regard was taken at a meeting under the Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh on the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). Punjab …
A spot-check across all major towns in Kenya reveals a common waste management problem. Mounds of uncollected garbage are the order of the day, leaving residents in urban centres at risk of disease outbreaks. Attempts by various county governments and the Environment ministry to clear the mess has been curtailed …
CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh mayor Davesh Moudgil along with municipal commissioner Jitender Yadav and other senior officers visited the new waste to compost unit at the garbage processing plant, GPP Dadumajra on Thursday. Significantly, one of the basic points of Thursday's visit was to ensure proper disposal of the compost after processing …
KENYA: A Kisumu court has now given governor Anyang’ Nyongo the green light to relocate the infamous Kachok dumpsite after it vacated an order temporarily stopping the planned relocation to Kajulu. The dumpsite has been at the center of controversies as residents, politicians and the county government disagreed on relocation …
MADURAI: Over 1,200 tonnes of garbage was cleared by corporation workers after two days of Pongal festival in the city. Large chunks of garbage had accumulated in many parts of the city as residents seemed to have heeded the request of officials to refrain from burning things on Bhogi this …
