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 …
Koppa, News Service: The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters. Mysore plantation in Koppa has become successful in setting up a coffee waste processing unit with the use of …
The quintessential example of large scale municipal wastewater reuse is the new Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) System in Orange County, CA. The system treats clarified secondary municipal wastewater effluent and, utilising microfiltration, reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation to produce 70mgd of reclaimed water.
Junk iron from scrap yards to clean polluted water IN 1983 the entire Mianus river bridge in Connecticut, US, collapsed when the bearings rusted internally. Rusting thus proved to be a bane. But a bane can be turned into a boon. A group of researchers from China used scrap iron …
AHMEDABAD: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment …
Ahmedabad: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment …
Pulp and paper mill requires a huge quantity of water and accordingly a substantial amount of spent liquor is generated. In this study purification of lignosulphonates (LS) present in spent sulphite liquor, a pulp and paper mill effluent was studied using continuous diafiltration.
The performance of various aeration systems for treatment of two different industrial liquid effluents was performed and discussed in this work. Fixed, combined and diffused systems were chosen. The samples for different detention time were tested for BOD and COD, before and after aeration for these three systems. In diffused …
The adsorption capacity of riverbed sand, sawdust, vermiculite and soil for Cr (III) ions from tannery effluent has been investigated in detail in order to evaluate their possible application as filter material in reed bed treatment system. The adsorption isotherm was determined along with the effect of contact time, initial …
Having an ISO-14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) will help enhance a firm's economic performance and at the same time improves its environmental performance. The benefits of ISO-14001 lie in cost savings through energy consumption, raw material input, waste management, environmental impact reversal as well as an improved public image. An …
ISLAMABAD: There is a dire need for rehabilitation of Kasur Tanneries Waste Treatment Plant. The Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali expressed these views while chairing a meeting of stakeholders and government functionaries to review Kasur
This study presents decolorization of textile azo dye, Orange II, by white rot fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium. Orange II (85%) was removed in 7 days (optimum decolorization on 5th day at 28-30
A 6.5 MGD Gulf Coast refinery began a Novozymes Biologicals bioaugmentation program to control effluent phenol in early January 2000. Effluent phenol concentrations often exceeded 0.3 mg/L before the bioaugmentation program began.
Jalandhar: The leather complex in Jalandhar will get the second module of the common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in November this year. Ajay Sharma, secretary and director of Punjab Effluent Treatment Societies (PETS), said the Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) awarded the project to M/s Ramky Infrastructure Ltd, Hyderabad. This …
The Tamil Nadu Green Movement, a network of environmental activists, opposed some aspects of the effluent-to-irrigation scheme in the 1980s. Since then, the Seshasayee factory has come a long way.
Treated wastewater from paper factory irrigates sugarcane fields A hub of dyeing units in Tamil Nadu, Pallipalayam is an exhibition of groundwater pollution from industry. The Cauvery river is joined by steady streams of industrial effluents; tannery units upstream have already done their bit. In the heart of this industrial …
There are 15 distilleries in Tamil Nadu under operation. The distillery effluent (mainly spent wash) is dark brown in colour and acidic in nature. It contains high percentage of dissolved organic, inorganic matter and potassium. Till year 2000 these units had disposed the partly treated effluent on land as fertilizer …
