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 …
This is the mantra preached by Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist at the University of New South Wales who wants to fundamentally change how we perceive our electronic waste: not as trash, but as treasure. Electronic waste, or “e-waste”, is full of valuable resources: a tonne of mobile phones, which …
A sinkhole spanning 45 feet (13.7 meters) in diameter opened at a Mosaic Co phosphate fertilizer facility in Florida, leaking 215 million gallons of "slightly radioactive water," a company spokesman said on Friday. Mosaic said the monitoring system at its New Wales facility at Mulberry, Florida, showed a decline in …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nadeem Iqbal Vs. Nagar Nigam, Bareilly & Others dated 19/09/2016 regarding management of bio-medical waste, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Counsel appearing for Nagar Nigam, Bareilly submits before the Court that after purchase of the land Nigam shall take all necessary steps …
Norway and Turkey were the only two of 53 countries to vote against an international ban on the dumping of mining waste at sea, at a major conservation summit in Hawaii last week. Even big mining nations including China and Russia voted in favour of the resolution at the International …
The facilities were charged with violating the Minamata Convention on mercury as it couldn’t safely dispose of CFLs containing mercury The National Green Tribunal has directed Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to consider upgradation of treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) in the country after a plea alleged that TSDFs …
Utilizing high-tech methods to track high-tech wastes, the environmental watchdog, Basel Action Network (BAN) as part of their e-Trash Transparency Project, funded by the Body Shop Foundation, planted GPS trackers into 205 old printers and monitors and then delivered them to charities and recyclers. The new report, entitled Scam Recycling: …
In a bid to prevent health risks resulting from exposure to electronic junk, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has set up five e-waste collection centres in its areas. It has also initiated a door-to-door pickup service, which is being offered free of cost. The collection centres have come up …
One in every two people is unaware of what e-waste is. A survey 'What India Knows about E-waste' conducted by an environmental NGO Toxics Link that was released on Tuesday revealed that most were unaware about electronic waste and the proper means to dispose it. The study which was conducted …
KARACHI: Despite being the largest public sector hospital in the city and among the few that have an incinerator, the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JMPC) at present doesn’t have a proper system to dispose of its medical waste, a major potential threat to the safety of its staff, patients as …
Agra: With biomedical waste lying open on the road near the office of the Sarojani Naidu Medical College (SNMC) principal, visitors who visit hospital remain vulnerable to the risk of contracting infections. According to health department guidelines, biomedical waste is a health hazard and needs to be disposed in a …
Bhopal: Taking cognizance of report on biomedical waste being reused by staff of Hamidia Hospital, National Green Tribunal's central bench demanded inspection report on Monday, with hospital representative on Wednesday accepting that some of the released medical waste had been reused and staff accepted this during inspection by supervising team …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Toxics Link Vs. Union of India & Others dated 02/09/2016 regarding guidelines governing the practices prescribed for recycling facility for CFLs/Mercury Lamps at TSDFs.
Target based approach for implementation of EPR has been adopted in the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016. Phase wise collection target has been fixed for producers for the collection of e-waste, which can be either in number or weight and shall be 30% of the quantity of waste generation as indicated …
The Supreme Court today cleared the way for Department of Environment to collect a fine of Tk 1.04 crore from 14 industries for polluting the Buriganga river in Shyampur area of Dhaka. The apex court stayed an order of the High Court that halted collection of the fine from the …
Mexico's environmental prosecutor said it had kept regular oversight of the country's largest gold mine, days after a Reuters report on a prolonged leak of contaminated water there prompted activists to accuse the agency of failing its mandate. Environmental prosecutor Profepa said that since 2013 it had completed five "administrative …
The public cost of dealing with the aftermath of the March 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s stricken Fukushima No. 1 plant topped ¥4.2 trillion by the end of fiscal 2015, it was learned Sunday. The cumulative total at the end of last March, including costs …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Balwant Singh Raghuvanshi Vs. M/s Bhopal Incinerators Ltd. & Others dated 29/08/2016 regarding Bio-Medical Waste in Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The state of Madhya Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh State Pollution Control Board have been asked …
Pharmaceutical and illicit drugs are present in streams in Baltimore, Maryland. At some sites, amphetamine concentrations are high enough to alter the base of the aquatic food web. So reports a new study released today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first to explore …
Around 10,000 tons of contaminated water have pooled in underground trenches around the Nos. 1 to 4 reactor buildings of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has no immediate plan to remove the …
Air pollution caused by war may be a major factor in the numbers of birth defects and cancers being reported in Iraq and other war zones, a study has suggested. Human exposure to heavy metals and neurotoxicants from the explosion of bombs, bullets, and other ammunition affects not only those …
