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 …
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and Rosatom have developed a technology to reprocess irradiated reactor graphite by evaporation. This technology allows making radioactive waste disposal safer and economically feasible. According to the polytechnicers the technology itself is not new: previously radioactive waste has been processed in plasma. However, this was …
Recycling has always been found helpful against global warming. However, with the commodities being priced lower than before, electronic recyclers around the world is experiencing some tough times. One of the major problems they face is how to get rid of toxic materials from old television sets. NBC News reported …
The quality of air and water near a school hit by a pollution scandal in which nearly 500 pupils have fallen ill, is “normal”, Chinese authorities say – though environmentalists and parents remain sceptical. Air quality at six spots in Changzhou Foreign Language School in eastern Jiangsu province tested similar …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s Ashok Vihar Mitra Mandel Vs. The Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 25/04/2016 regarding dumping of hazardous wastes containing heavy metals in the green belt, Delhi. CPCB has come up with a Reply dated 22nd April, 2016. …
Environmental activists in China are calling for new laws and an independent investigation into how hundreds of Chinese students fell ill – in some cases severely – after attending a school built on a toxic waste dump. In a case that is being compared to one of the worst environmental …
Chandigarh: A recent PGI study says most e-waste in the city is generated by refrigerators, at 36%. This is followed by air conditioners at 31.23%, washing machines at 21.8% and televisions, 5%. According to an inventory prepared as part of the study, gold worth Rs 35 lakh, which could have …
AHMEDABAD: Despite speaking big about e-waste disposal for the past three years, little has been done on that front by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. It was in 2013 that the AMC had proposed an ambitious project of e-waste (electronic waste) collection and recycling. So, for citizens, the new rules announced …
Japan is considering releasing thousands of tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the beleaguered Fukushima plant. The nuclear power station, north of Tokyo, was wrecked by a 50-foot tsunami in March 2011, disabling three of its reactors. To keep the melted-down reactors cool, 300 tonnes of water …
AGRA: While Agra is getting all spruced up for Will-Kat's visit on April 16, possibilities of closure of the city's lone biomedical treatment waste disposal plant, a day earlier, looms large, leaving over 3,500 kgs of hazardous waste from hospitals in the city lying undisposed. With the near 2000 hospitals …
AHMEDABAD: In a major boost to safeguarding public health from irresponsible biomedical waste disposal and related hazards, the new Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules now require a bar code system for identifying bags or containers carrying biomedical waste, and a GPS system to track the movement of the containers. …
Nuclear catastrophe is always an unmitigated disaster. The only beneficiaries, albeit in a perverse fashion, are animals, which tend to flourish in areas humans evacuate. This has certainly been the case for wild boars around Fukushima, which have multiplied so rapidly, they’ve become a problem for neighboring towns. On Friday, …
The owners of all new buildings will have to provide separate coloured bins to collect dry waste. TAKING note of the flak it received from the state government, the High Court as well as citizens over the poor waste management system which led to the fire at the Deonar dumping …
This Order may be called, the Regulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Order, 2016. It shall come into force on the date of its final publication in the Official Gazette. The manufacture and import of the Polychlorinated Biphenyls in India shall be banned from the date of final publication of this Order. …
Disposal and decommissioning of plants in EU’s 16 nuclear nations outstrips available funds by €120bn, European commission study reveals Europe is facing a €253bn bill for nuclear waste management and plant decommissioning which outstrips available funds by €120bn, according to a major stock-take of the industry by the European commission. …
Ludhiana: Local officials of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) have sought action against a hospital based in Sarabha Nagar for allegedly dumping medical waste near the MC's zone D office in the area. PPCB environmental Engineer Ashok Sharma said they caught a cart-puller dumping the medical waste in the area …
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Sunday released the Hazardous Waste Rules 2016 to distinguish hazardous waste from other wastes. Speaking on the occasion, Javadekar said, "The new rules will ensure resource recovery and disposal of hazardous waste in environmentally sound manner. …
The new Hazardous Waste Rules will ensure resource recovery and disposal of hazardous waste in environmentally sound manner. The Rules are environment and industry- friendly. The provisions of the new Rules are in line with this Government’s priority for Ease of Doing Business and Make in India, but with responsible …
An "ice wall" around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been turned on, Japanese authorities say. The wall will restrict the movement of groundwater, stopping it from becoming contaminated from the leaking facility which suffered a nuclear disaster in 2011. The project aims to freeze the soil underneath the …
Nuclear regulators gave their approval Wednesday to start freezing soil around damaged reactor buildings at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant to prevent groundwater from entering the highly contaminated facilities. The Nuclear Regulation Authority told Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, that it could activate the east side coolant-filled …
Britain will ship 700 kilograms of nuclear waste to the United States under a deal to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at a nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, a British government source said. In return for the shipment, the largest ever movement of highly enriched uranium, …
