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 …
In the run-up to the 15th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit scheduled for February, experts from diverse backgrounds on Tuesday deliberated on smart and sustainable solutions for Bangalore to make it a ‘smart city’. As a prelude to the global event, a series of regional dialogues are being organised, first of …
The residents of Moshi have opposed the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) proposal to dump garbage in a quarry near their village. The PMC has been looking for new dumping sites following repeated opposition from the residents of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, the two villages used for years to dump city’s …
As the Mt Fuji climbing season approaches its end, officials in Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures have called attention to the large amount of trash and waste left on the ground along climbing paths in areas far removed from rubbish bins and restrooms. In an effort to protect the environment and …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has told the Barnala Municipal Council to ensure proper cleanliness of the town in future. The directions came after a Division Bench of the High Court was told that the town was littered with garbage. In his petition placed before the Division Bench of …
BANGALORE: ‘Shoot and act’ seems to be the latest mantra of BBMP for tackling the garbage issue. The BBMP is set to procure digital cameras for all ward engineers and officials concerned to take pictures of those littering in public places. It plans to click-start this action programme soon in …
HONG KONG — Residents of a county in southern China thronged the streets in protest over the weekend to oppose a proposed garbage incineration plant, defying government warnings and police detentions. The protest was the latest of a succession of demonstrations against waste-disposal projects by pollution-weary Chinese citizens. A street …
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has taken out cleaning and sanitation drive to avoid outbreak of any diseases. "Water level in almost every residential colony receded following which we began sanitation exercise. Our priority is to clean up all the main and arterial roads. We have deployed thousands of sanitation …
Outlying Areas Like Ambattur At Highest Threat Of Disease The occasional spells of rain in the city over the past few days have led to a sharp spike in vector-borne diseases, especially chikun gunya, in the city, particularly in outlying areas like Ambattur. Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted to …
A local resident who had earlier filed a petition before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking orders for the municipal corporation to stop dumping garbage in front of his house, has once again moved the tribunal. He has sought tribunal's help once again after municipal authorities violated the previous orders. …
Councillors in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation will be getting an additional Rs.2-5 lakh each to improve cleanliness in their wards, Leader of the House Subhash Arya said on Monday. “The councillors can coordinate with the Zonal Deputy Commissioner and the executive engineer of maintenance to get cleanliness in their …
Around 99 per cent of Sweden's garbage is now recycled and the country is so efficient at managing waste they are importing it from other European countries. The Scandinavian country has 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, where garbage is incinerated to produce steam, which in turn is used to run generator …
Entrusted with the task of finding a viable solution to the mounting garbage problem that has brought a bad name to Bangalore internationally, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's Special Commissioner (Municipal Solid Waste) Darpan Jain is scrambling for ways to resolve the issue before December 1, the deadline set for …
There are at least five big patches of garbage floating around the planet's oceans and some are as big as the state of Texas, scientists said in a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Chaos. And now, there's an algorithm to track their movements. Researchers from the University of …
The city corporation will soon commission a study to assess how much garbage has been dumped in the two landfills Kodungaiyur and Pallikaranai. This will be the first time the civic body is compiling data to understand the quantity and type of waste generated. This, officials said, will help them …
Rising instances of trucks from other States discarding waste along border districts Illegal dumping of construction debris and garbage along the border-lying districts by trucks from the adjoining States that has been for years has acquired a dangerous dimension now with the dumping of biomedical waste along with them and …
Corpn, Voluntary Groups To Start Pilot Project In Zone 13 From October. People in the city started an active civic movement to clean the city's beaches and roads in the '90s. With the garbage problem completely out of hand 20 years later, and Corporation of Chennai's plan to close the …
Rampant trash-burning is throwing more pollution and toxic particles into the air than governments are reporting, according to a scientific study estimating that more than 40 percent of the world’s garbage is burned. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, attempts the first comprehensive assessment of global …
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 …
