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 …
On a beach in Sydney's Botany Bay, Dave West from the Boomerang Alliance shows the small bits of plastic that get into our food chain. The beverage industry has "finally acknowledged" that four per cent of all beverage containers in NSW are littered, green groups say. The admission came when …
Nagpur: With increasing concern of the impact of pollution in the city, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) health department imposed a penalty of Rs5,000 on a housing society for burning waste in the open. This is the first such action of levying penalty by NMC in the recent past as burning …
About 150 loads of garbage, including wet waste, enters the Mavallipura landfill every day. Even as a garbage crisis looms large over the city, Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath from the BJP, on Monday, threatened to close the Mavallipura landfill if BBMP fails to process wet waste being dumped at …
Spread over 600 kanal, the garbage dumping site at Achan remains the focal point of the agitation against the Srinagar Municipal Corporation. The stink emanating from the dumping ground is giving sleepless nights to the residents of the nearby localities even as the government is making efforts to tackle the …
Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency, where he launched the Clean India Campaign on November 8, 2014, is facing the worst solid waste disposal crisis. Since the day of the festival of colours on March 24, solid waste has not been removed from garbage dumping centres of the city …
Terming the fire at the Deonar dumping ground as a serious lapse, the Central government on Monday said the two-member probe team has prepared its report and a meeting will be convened soon to discuss it, following which strict action will be taken against those who violated norms. Union Environment …
Paris - It took a decade to get to the negotiating table, and it could easily take another to finish the job, but UN talks in New York to safeguard life in the high seas finally begin in earnest on Monday. The stakes could hardly be higher, experts and diplomats …
The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend last September. On …
The report said illegal dumping was the biggest environmental concern for the public Illegal dumping of waste is the biggest environmental concern for the public, according to a Stormont report. Reusing plastic bags is the single most common step taken by people who want to improve the world around them. …
AGRA: The lighting of bonfire as a replay of burning of Holika symbolizing the victory of good over evil, now seems to have a not-so-holy side. Huge heaps of garbage — plastic bags, sacks, old tyres, rubber products, leather cuttings and other waste products — can be seen at every …
KR Market, Bengaluru’s largest marketplace and the biggest user of plastic, is set to ban all kinds of plastic from April 2 onwards. The traders have joined hands with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to fully curtail the use of 1,000 kg of plastic every day. The traders decided …
Terming as a “serious” issue the fire at the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai which is emitting toxic gases, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said that a two-member special team will be sent to investigate the incident. Javadekar, who held a telephonic conversation with the Commissioner of Mumbai on …
RAWALPINDI: Waste collection mechanism may have improved with award of a multi-million dollar contract to a Turkish firm, the Rawalpindi authorities are yet to find a sustainable solution to dispose of the waste. Al-Buraq, a Turkish firm, was handed over the task of collecting and disposing of solid waste in …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Kalkaji Mandir Vikreta Sangathan-II & Others Vs Piyush Joshi & Others dated 16/03/2016 regading sanitation and cleanliness of the Kalkaji Mandir Complex, New Delhi. Committee constituted by NGT had stated that the "the most fundamental problem was the non-demarcation …
Thane: The need to tackle the growing waste issue in the city has encouraged many housing societies, schools and even colleges to go the zero-waste way .Proper waste disposal has been an issue since quite sometime. Even though the civic officials have taken adequate steps to tackle this problem, it …
No official of the private firm engaged for setting up of solid waste management project (SWMP) turned up to sign an agreement on March 8. The Municipal Corporation authorities are expecting that the agreement will be signed soon. The panel constituted for executing the SWMP in Amritsar, headed by Mayor …
Bidar was the 22nd cleanest city in the country in 2010. But it does not appear in the list of clean cities this year. One of the main reasons why it lost the clean city tag is its inadequate efforts in treating the garbage it generates. The city generates over …
TEN Chinese ministries have jointly issued guidelines on green consumption, the latest move to boost green and sustainable development in a country battling to rein in pollution and waste. The document, issued yesterday by 10 ministries including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, aims to …
At a time when the country's richest civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is struggling to find more space for dumping the garbage, a small municipal council in neighbouring Thane district is experimenting with organic way to tackle the problem. Vice president of Kulgaon-Badlapur municipal council Shridhar Patil told reporters …
The Mozambican government announced on Thursday that it has collected eight tons of plastic bags with a thickness of less than 30 micrometres all over the country in its latest campaign to ban their usage. The Ministry of Health says that plastic bags pose a danger for people's health. The …
