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 …
Workers of private company ‘dump’ waste by the roadside causing chaos While the entire administration is busy with the visit of Bathinda MP and Badal bahu, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, city residents are struggling to get rid of the foul smell emanating from garbage at numerous places in the city. Workers …
The world throws a lot of things away -- measured to be about 3.5 million tons of solid waste a day in 2013, a number expected to climb to 6 million tons a day by 2025. But that's nothing. The World Bank released a report a year and a half …
Garbage lifting in the city was badly hit as the strike by members of the MC Safai Karamchari Union entered its second day today. Union members did not lift garbage from 550 bins across the city. Even today, they stopped garbage lifting vehicles from entering the garbage processing plant at …
GHAZIABAD: For four consecutive days, Municipal Corporation of Ghaziabad waste disposal officials have failed to collect garbage. Bins across the city are overflowing with garbage, including hazardous industrial and medical waste. Its only landfill site being so chock full of domestic, industrial, medical and e-waste, that the corporation waste disposal …
Imposing a prison sentence for environmental infractions is a rare event in Israel, but it happened recently. A District Court rejected an appeal by a person convicted of running an unauthorized waste disposal site, and the offenders were ordered to pay over 1 million shekels in fines. Brothers Tziki and …
To keep up with the Prime Minister’s Clean India campaign, the three corporations in the national capital are planning to bring back small dustbins on the city’s arterial roads, busy markets and residential colonies. The erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi had discontinued the bins across the city after the 2008 …
The number of wet wipes washing up on beaches in the UK increased by more than 50% last year, say conservationists, who have urged people to stop flushing them down their toilets. The results of Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) annual beach cleanup, released on Thursday, found the number of wet …
KOCHI: The health officer of the Cochin Port Trust (CPT) on Tuesday submitted before the Kerala High Court that all ships were having their own garbage management plan, and waste generated in them were segregated accordingly. Port health officer K A Shyamini filed the report on a petition filed by …
To deal with the issue of municipal solid waste (MSW), the Khadki Cantonment Board (KCB) has proposed to set up vermicomposting pits at housing societies besides constructing a sorting centre. KJS Chauhan, chief executive officer (CEO), KCB, said the administration would place the proposal before the newly constituted board soon. …
MUMBAI: Tonnes of garbage collected from the across the Mira-Bhayander region and dumped on open plots in and around villages in Bhayander (west) is being openly burnt by the municipality, leading to massive smoke, pollution and stink. The Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has been dumping the wastes generated from …
SEVENTY percent of Shanghai’s household waste will be burned to generate electricity once four new waste incineration centers open next year, officials said yesterday. City residents produce 22,000 tons of garbage a day and currently about 40 percent is processed at five waste incineration centers to produce electricity. Incineration will …
When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest in 1953, it was arguably the loneliest place on Earth — an oxygen-deprived desert perched atop an icy, 29,000-foot ladder of death. Over the last 62 years, more than 4,000 climbers have replicated the pair’s feat, with …
Breaking the three-month-old deadlock between villagers of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi and the civic body in Pune, they have agreed to allow dumping of 500 tonne garbage in the vicinity of the villages. The villagers had prevented entry of garbage vehicles from January 1. The breakthrough to allow 500 tonne …
As the Railways tries desperately to clean its tracks and property of filth and stop people from littering, the National Green Tribunal on Monday expressed its disquiet with the slow pace of action and lack of visible results. A Bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar was visibly unimpressed …
In a bid to address the growing concerns over solid waste management in the city, the district administration has identified two sites, which would serve as landfills. The combined area of the two sites is 130 acres, said Deputy Commissioner C Shikha, here on Monday. Speaking at an interaction with …
Uniqueness of Indian waste means that technology is yet to be developed A large metropolis is a good place to study the magnitude of the problems of solid waste man agement in Indian cities. In Bengaluru, now often called the garbage city, lorries collect and carry solid waste far out …
Residents of the pilgrim city fear outbreak of diseases as heaps of garbage, plastic material and filth can be seen on almost all major roads, colonies and intersections. Though the Municipal Corporation (MC) make tall claims of keeping the city clean, the situation here is totally different. The MC has …
KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has started dumping waste at Teku Waste Transfer Station after locals of Okharpauwa, Nuwakot obstructed KMC trucks from transporting garbage to Sisdole Landfill Site for disposal. KMC vehicles did not transport capital’s garbage to the landfill site today. Agitating locals on Monday and yesterday had …
We must also realise that even as environmental problems have grown, the institutions for the oversight and management of natural resources have shrunk The new year has brought India's environmental movement at a crossroads. On the one hand, there is a greater acceptance of our concerns, but on the other …
