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 …
A waste-to-energy plant where power supply is generated from garbage is likely to be commissioned by January 2015. The plant in Venkatamangalam is expected to significantly reduce the strain on open spaces in some of the bigger urban pockets in the city’s southern suburbs such as Tambaram and Pallavaram by …
Scientists, experts, environmentalists and concerned citizen groups yesterday stressed that they would join hands to take legal action against the government’s latest move to dump garbage at a site in Puttalam, which they claimed was paleodiversity haven in the country. Paleontologist cum researcher, Kelum Manamendraarachchi told The Island that the …
The world's leading expert on the poisoning of the oceans has described how he was "utterly shocked" by the true amount of plastic floating on the sea, warning that it potentially posed a bigger threat to the planet than climate change. Charles J Moore, a captain in the US Merchant …
Unregulated trash burning around the globe is pumping far more pollution into the atmosphere than shown by official records. A new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research estimates that more than 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in such fires, emitting gases and particles that …
A waste-to-energy plant where power supply is generated from garbage is likely to be commissioned by January 2015. The plant in Venkatamangalam is expected to significantly reduce the strain on open spaces in some of the bigger urban pockets in the city’s southern suburbs such as Tambaram and Pallavaram by …
The general body of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Thursday rejected the civic administration's proposal to develop garbage dumping ground and biomedical waste treatment plant on a 12-acre plot at Puikhadi on the outskirts of the city. The decision is a setback to the KMC's efforts to tackle the …
Littering, Failure to Segregate Garbage Will Now Invite Fine The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has finally woken up to the garbage problem of the city as it drafted the public health and sanitation bylaws-2014 for better segregation and disposal of waste. If the PMC has its way, throwing trash from …
SYDNEY—Garbage is piling up on streets across Australia as a major company responsible for its collection investigates a fatal crash involving one of its waste-removal trucks. Two people died and another two remain critically injured after a truck operated by Transpacific smashed into three stationary cars at an intersection in …
Porvorim: The government is making efforts to make Goa totally garbage-free by December 19, 2015, chief minister Manohar Parrikar assured the Goa legislative assembly on Tuesday. Replying to the discussion on the demands of science, technology and environment, Parrikar, who is the minister for science, technology and environment, said that …
Huge heaps of garbage lying on the roadside and the vacant plots of Kodeeswaran Nagar and its burning in an unsafe manner at the spot itself are causing serious health hazards to the residents for the past several weeks. The very birth of Kodeeswaran Nagar and Vedhathri Nagar that have …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has recommended that the buffer zone around the Moshi garbage depot in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) can be reduced to 300 m. People have built their houses and housing schemes have come up around the depot. These residents have demanded that the …
INDORE: Struggling to keep city clean, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has decided to engage one more private company for disposal of garbage from municipal limits. Residents say the move may not rid the city of the garbage woes as the new contract asks the company to lift just 300 metric …
Dublin’s north inner city remains a litter “black spot” according to Irish Business Against Litter (Ibal), despite a crackdown on illegal dumping in the area announced by Dublin City Council last year. Three Dublin districts are among the four dirtiest places in the State, according to Ibal, with Dublin’s north …
Civic Body Continues To Collect Mixed Garbage Action Sought Against Those Who Don't Separate Dry, Wet Waste The garbage crisis may have been tackled for now, but the much larger issues confronting solid waste management in the city are yet to be dealt with, say experts. For 14 years, the …
HUNDREDS of protesters on Saturday asked the government to refrain from setting any garbage transfer or dumping station within the Panthakunja Park to the west of the Sonargaon Hotel in the city. From a human chain, they urged the authorities to stop the ongoing work for setting up the waste …
The untreated waste is also spreading malodour and various diseases posing health hazard to thousands of people Uncontrolled waste disposal is choking the by-pass road, an important thoroughfare on the East of Habiganj municipality, causing immense sufferings to passersby. The untreated waste is also spreading malodour and various diseases posing …
The City’s garbage crisis may now take a toll on the wildlife around the Turahalli minor forest near Banashankari. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has reportedly decided to set up a garbage-processing unit on 10 acres of land in BM Kaval. This area in Banashankari 6th Stage has been …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) standing committee approved two %new garbage processing plants on Tuesday, barely hours after Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villagers ended their six-day agitation against garbage dumping in their village limits. Municipal officials said that the total garbage the city produced had doubled in the last …
Companies prefer informal dealers as they offer better rates: study If it’s not enough that Bangalore’s IT companies and e-savvy population generates 86,118 tonnes of e-waste a year, a recent study points out that most of it is disposed of haphazardly, adding to the city’s garbage woes. The lack of …
The Pune Municipal Corporation has received deadline of December 31 to resolve the garbage dumping issue in Uruli Devachi and Phursungi. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Monday night held a meeting with residents of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi to solve ongoing garbage disposal issue. “The civic body has been asked to …
