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 …
Space, the final frontier, is rapidly becoming one big trash dump, experts have warned at a recent conference in Germany. Thousands of rocket launches have left a growing amount of orbiting debris that may badly hamper future launches into space. If one counts tiny bits of metal and debris, the …
Adequate locations to set up new garbage dumping sites are not available in Mumbai. The Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) has been recently ordered by the Union government to create new garbage dumps within the city limits, as all the bmc dumping grounds have exceeded their capacity. But bmc is finding …
Sherpa climbers will be paid to collect garbage dumped on Mount Everest by the Nepal Mountaineering Association. The sherpas usually act as guides and carry supplies for people climbing the Everest, the world's highest mountain. "We are considering paying US $13.50 for each kilogramme of garbage they collect,' said Bhumi …
as long as it remained a hit-and-run campaign, the "clean city, green city' programme of Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation offended nobody. But a rural-urban conflict has arisen after a plant to handle solid waste from the state capital was set up at Vilappilsala in Vilappil Gram Panchayat (Vilappil village council). The …
Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, is facing garbage management crisis. Kathmandu Metropolitan City has stopped dumping garbage in the Guheshori area and it has not been able to identify an alternative location. Therefore, the whole city is littered with all sorts of garbage, including rotten foodstuffs, packaging materials, bones and dismantled building …
In a recent move to put an end to the inopportune methods for disposing municipal solid waste , a division bench of the Supreme Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to start door to door collection of garbage for this purpose. The division bench stated that there …
every morning a group of young volunteers cruise the polluted waters of the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar to collect the refuse of the lake dwellers. They go from houseboat to houseboat, collecting garbage and then back to the shore to dispose of this waste. This practice has been a …
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 …
garbage washed ashore coasts are creating a major environmental problem in japan. A recent survey conducted by a professor of the National Defense Academy found that 400,000 pieces of garbage drifted ashore at 500 locations across the country over the past three years. This indicates that a massive amount of …
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 …
in an attempt to ensure that visitors did not dirty the famous Jim Corbett National Park, the park authorities have decided to provide handwoven waste baskets for all to use inside the park and return them when leaving. According to estimates, 10,000 tourists, including foreigners, visit the forest every year. …
the capital of Bihar, Patna, is a fast expanding modern city and like all modern cities is beset by its share of problems. Most prominent among them being its inability to manage its solid wastes. With a population well in excess of 10 lakh residing along the banks of the …
There is just too much of it. And all of us contribute liberally every day. But what if the ragpicker doesn't come one day? What if the garbage-collecting truck doesn't arrive? What if
Why have municipalities failed? There is no dearth of ways and means to dispose of waste, yet many people in India live in and around pig stys. From time to time, studies have been carried out, and recommendations have been made to solve the problem of swm. Some of the …
The household waste is disposed of either via a door-to-door collection system, which is not so common, or in municipal facilities. Excluding posh residential and commercial colonies, most of the households, shops and other establishments throw waste as and when it is generated. At some places, where bins have been …
"We simply dispose waste in abandoned quarries and other areas,' said Dhaigude, when asked about the waste disposal system in Mumbai. In the parlance of the municipal officials, disposal of waste means dumping. Besides open dumping, the most commonly-practised methods for disposing of waste are sanitary landfilling (slf) and composting. …
