Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
The Tannery sector is one of the most important highly water polluting industrial category. India has about 3,000 tanneries with a total processing capacity of 700,000 tons of hides and skins per year. In this paper an attempt is made to know the pollution level in the effluent generated and …
The principle of attached growth process has been incorporated in this research study for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater. An investigation has been made using laboratory scale model upflow anaerobic filter (UAF) using polyurethane foam as packing medium to evaluate its performance in treating pharmaceutical wastewater under the influence of …
The textile industries in Tamil Nadu are in the process of providing zero liquid discharge (ZLD) system and they are in need of suitable technology for colour and organics removal so as to reduce the chemical consumption, energy consumption and sludge generation, which are problems in the conventional treatment methods. …
Color and odour from integrated pulp and paper mill has been a matter of concern, on aesthetic sense, which has also been addressed in the CREP guidelines for the pulp and paper industry. Though the odour problem has been taken care by installing systems for NCG collection and combustion, the …
BGPPL Unit: Kamalapuram is one of the best unit in South India for manufacturings Dissolving Grade pulp with annual capacity of 98000 TPA, supplying to textile industries. This unit is located in Kamalapuram of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. This unit has latest state of the art of equipments and entire …
Pulp and paper industry is facing a major problem on account of increasing scarcity of water and stringent discharge norms introduced by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the form of CREP (Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection). Large proportion of water being discharged presently will have to be recycled back …
Many environmental problems arise from the deliberate or inadvertent abuse, misuse and over use of natural resources by human beings. In the past, changes were always slow, but this is no longer true. Industrial activities have drastically increased the pace at which changes in the environment are taking place. ITC …
Police along with officials of the civic body, state pollution control board and CESC sealed 11 illegal tanneries in Tiljala, Topsia, Tangra and Karaya on Monday. The crackdown will continue till all the illegal tanneries have been sealed, said Ajey Ranade, the superintendent of South 24-Parganas police. Last week, the …
up visions of rusting junkyards on the wrong side of the tracks. But this image may soon get a green makeover. A research project in China suggests that iron shavings from factories can be a cheap and efficient way to clean up polluted water. And because such scrap is widely …
Irrigated with industrial effluents the global demand for meat and dairy products is estimated to grow to 283 million tonnes by 2010, up by 27 per cent from 2000. About three-fourths of this demand will come from developed countries, according to a report by the un Food and Agriculture Organisation. …
The survey revealed the fact that in India, alum is used for the improvement of effluent quality but the work on alum recovery and reuse is fragmentary. Therefore this work emphasized on recovery of alum from sludge and its reuse for waste water treatment. Various methods have been reported for …
The objective of this study is to find out the optimum OLR at which the UASB reactor can be operated in treating domestic sewage and sugar mill effluent, in conjunction at a predetermined optimum mixing ratio of 75:25.
SRINAGAR, Sep 8: The 24th meeting of Apex Clearance Committee (APCC) was held today under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary S. S. Kapur to clear various investment proposals in medium and large sector. The committee approved a proposal of Steel Authority of India, a Government of India enterprise for setting …
Because of the high concentration of heavy metals in the sediment sludge produced from industrial wastewater treatment, direct disposal of this sludge in landfill sites will cause serious soil and groundwater pollution. Traditionally, the industrial sludge in Taiwan is first solidified and the products need to pass through the toxicity …
The interactions of methyl orange and two benzidine type azo dyes, Congo Red and Direct Blue 1, with some strong polycations with variable charge densities, having cationic centers in the side chain, were investigated.
Emission standards for sponge iron industry lack teeth THE much awaited emissions standards for sponge iron plants have finally been notified. It took the environment ministry almost two and a half years. But it seems the period has taken a toll on the stringent guidelines of the draft, initially released …
Jamshedpur: Work for the Adityapur Auto Cluster has gained momentum after the Centre announced 75 per cent subsidy for the Rs 65-crore project. Pushpak Management Services has been appointed as the consultant. Officials said a team of industrialists would soon leave for Pune and Nagpur to study auto clusters. The …
Tannin degrading microbes isolated from tannery effluents were tested for their ability to degrade vegetable tannins in tannery effluents, along with other polluting parameters in the effluents like Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS).
Anaerobic treatment has gained tremendous success over the past two decades for treatment of industrial effluents. Over the past 30 years, the popularity of anaerobic wastewater treatment has increased as public utilities and industries have utilized its considerable benefits. Low biomass production, low nutrient requirements and the energy production in …
