Municipal / Household Waste

GVMC violates rules

The GVMC has violated the Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2000, and has been dumping the city garbage at Kapuluppada for which the AP Pollution Control Board has denied permission for the landfill. Around 800 mt of waste is being generated per day in the city which contains around 45 …

Waste to wealth, these residents show how

At This Enclave Near Yelahanka, 950 Kg Of Garbage Generated Every Month Is Composted And Recycled Bangalore: The BBMP’s waste segregation initiatives may have floundered but one group of citizens is actively ploughing away at the effort and showing the way out for the city’s perennial landfill woes. Residents of …

Nation's first five-star rated green building to come up in Jaipur

JAIPUR: Come May and the country's first five-star rated green building in Achrol exclusively dedicated to environment audit will be ready to be inaugurated by Vice-President Hamid Ansari. The International Centre for Environmental Audit and Sustainable Development (iCED), the first government green building, would be the only one in the …

City on top plastic generators’ list

800 Tonnes Created Daily, It Comprises 80% Of Trash Reaching Landfills New Delhi: Delhi is among the largest producers of plastic waste in the country generating over 800 metric tonnes per day. Around 750 metric tonnes reach landfill sites daily of which roughly 80% are plastic bags and packaging materials. …

Garbage depot smoke constricts breathing

Phursungi-Uruli Villagers Warn Of Agitation If Blaze That Broke Out On Sunday Is Not Put Out A huge fire that broke out at the garbage depot in Phursungi-Uruli on Sunday afternoon was not completely extinguished till late Monday evening, villagers said. They complained of irritation in the eyes and difficulty …

SIT to probe violation of norms at dumping sites

CM Prithviraj Chavan announced Wednesday formation of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe financial irregularities and violation of norms by private contractors at the Deonar, Kanjurmarg and Mulund dumping grounds. "The government needs to evolve a solid waste management policy to effectively tackle the 7,000 metric tonnes of garbage …

Thrikkakara grapples with waste management

Even as Thrikkakara attracts more people on account of its rising profile as the Information Technology hub, the municipal authorities are grappling with rising solid waste generation it entails. However, the municipal authorities are talking in different voices when it comes to waste management, which was visible during the recent …

Generators, traffic jams polluting Noida

National Green Tribunal Hauls Up Industries For Not Having Proper Pollution Control Systems Noida: A six-member expert committee constituted by National Green Tribunal to determine ‘sources’ and ‘extent’ of pollution in Noida has taken cognizance of diesel generators operating in large numbers, due to lack of adequate power, for causing …

Experts to screen proposals for waste management plants

A panel of experts from agencies including Central Pollution Control Board and National Environmental Engineering Research Institute will scrutinise proposals for new solid waste management plants in the city. The Chennai Corporation has shortlisted 10 proposals for the plants that are to come up on the outskirts. All the shortlisted …

Okhla composting plant earns Rs.25 lakh as carbon credits

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s composting plant in Okhla received Rs.25 lakh as carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The plant, which has been set up under a Public Private Partnership model with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited, has processed two lakh tonnes of …

Waste plant to generate 10 MW electricity

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)'s Rochem Green plant to generate energy from waste will soon start generating 10 mega watt electricity. "The plant currently uses 300 metric tonne waste to generate 3 mega watt electricity. It will soon upgraded to take 700 metric tonne waste to generate 10 mega …

Chalai plant: State overruled panel findings

Expert Committee Never Suggested Gasification Plant For Municipal Waste Treatment Thiruvananthapuram: The government awarded the contract to set up modular wastetreatment plant at Chalai at a cost of Rs 60 crores to Loro Enviropower by overruling the recommendations of the expert committee headed by RVG Menon Two weeks after TOI …

MMC resolves to outsource door-to-door waste collection

MARGAO: The Margao Municipal Council on Tuesday resolved to outsource door-to-door waste collection in the city, even as the sanitary and the technical sections came under fire from the city fathers for its inefficiency and its failure to collect fees from hotels and restaurants since the last two years. At …

Tribunal bans throwing of debris into Yamuna

Costs to be collected for removing debris With a view to cleaning the Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal on Thursday restrained any body, person or authority from throwing debris of any kind, including solid wastes, on the banks of the Yamuna or the water body near the grand old river. …

Green tribunal bans dumping of debris on Yamuna banks

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday issued an order restraining all individuals, companies as well as public authorities from throwing any debris or solid waste on the Yamuna river bank or water bodies near it. It also ordered the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and their agencies to immediately …

Government initiates garbage collection drive along highways

PANJIM: Though tons of newspaper reams have been dedicated to the issue, agitated gram sabha discussions have rocked villages and various initiatives have been thrashed by the government, the satisfactory garbage management has eluded Goa over the past few decades with the latest initiative too having bleak prospects, in terms …

Garbage separation plan decays

Households Not Sorting Waste Before Disposal, Contractors Doing A Poor Job New Delhi: They were set up across several parts of the city with much fanfare in 2009 but the green and blue dustbins that were meant to facilitate waste segregation are being used like ordinary bins now. Even at …

Soon, sanitary landfills to be must in B’lore

Civic Body Has To Identify Sites, Inform Centre Bangalore: Here’s a fresh blow to the BBMP. The municipal body might soon have to face flak from the Centre. The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is all set to amend its existing rules to make it mandatory for all municipal …

Brahmapuram to turn waste to energy

The proposed solid waste treatment plant will adopt incineration method The proposed solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram capable of processing 500 tonnes of waste material daily will adopt the waste-to-energy technology model based on the incineration method. Work on the Rs. 350 crore plant is expected to begin soon. …

GMC begins test on bio-medical waste incinerator

PANJIM: In a bid to ease its huge bio-medical waste problem, the Goa Medical College has begun testing its newly acquired bio-medical waste incinerator feeding small amounts of medical waste to it initially. “We have started using it. Right now, trial runs are on with the help of officials of …

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