Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Bhopal Municipal Corporation Vs Subhash C Pandey & Others dated 07/04/2025. The affidavit of compliance was filed by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation regarding implementation of the suggestions of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). The SC granted time to the …
National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) directed Mira Bhayendar Municipal Corporation in Mumbai to deposit Rs. 20/- crores in escrow account of Divisional Commissioner within two weeks to ensure that the proposed plant to treat the municipal solid waste is commissioned and operated within next eight months as stated …
The Petitioners Resident Welfare Association of Sukhdev Vihar, Jasola Vihar, and Ishwar Nagar had approached the High Court of Delhi by filing Public Interest Litigation under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that the construction of the proposed Waste to Energy plant close to Okhla STP should be …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Almitra H. Patel & Others VsMinistry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 22/12/2016 regarding steps to improve the practices presently adopted for collection, storage, transportation, disposal, treatment and recycling of Municipal Solid Waste popularly known as “garbage” generated …
Once the project is completed, NHAI will return the site to the civic body. Standing 50 metres above the ground, waste collected at the Ghazipur landfill site will be used for road expansion projects by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in an effort to reclaim the site. A …
The garbage dump is causing serious health issues for people staying in the areas and may even have led to deaths. The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Gujarat Pollution Control Board, following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which seeks …
Only a third of plastic packaging used in consumer products is recycled each year, with almost two-thirds sent to landfill or incinerated, according to new research. Of the 1.5m tonnes of recyclable plastic waste used by consumers in Britain in 2015 only 500,000 tonnes was recycled, according to the figures …
European countries are improving their methods to prevent household trash and other municipal waste from ending up in landfill sites. Recycling rates, in particular, have increased considerably across Europe over the past decade, due in part to European environmental policies, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment. The …
European countries are improving their methods to prevent household trash and other municipal waste from ending up in landfill sites. Recycling rates, in particular, have increased considerably across Europe over the past decade, due in part to European environmental policies, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment. The …
The Delhi government has begun a pilot project for controlled burning at east Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill, which will be followed by the implementation of similar steps at Bhalswa and Okhla, as part of a long-term project simultaneously aimed at maximum utilisation of the sites and pre-emption of fires. Underlined by …
THE monsoon season has barely passed and there have already been two incidents of fires at the Deonar dumping ground within a week, raising concerns over the condition of the city’s three landfill sites once again. A report prepared by the solid waste management department on the status of the …
The Supreme Court Monday sought explanation from the Delhi government as well as the Centre over lack of landfill sites for garbage disposal in the national capital. “I have seen some TV reports in which it was pointed out that people are dying (due to lack of garbage disposal). What …
The aim of the present work was to study the impact of dumpsite leachate on ground-water quality of Jawaharnagar village. Leachate and ground-water samples were investigated for various physico-chemical parameters viz., pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), total hardness (TH), calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), chloride (Cl−), carbonates …
A four-member MC team, which had gone to Chennai to study the technicalities and feasibility of a plastic-to-fuel plant, returned today and has proposed to set up such an environment-friendly plant in the city. A detailed study tour report will come up in the MC House meeting where the final …
On Sunday evening, Gaurav Bansal, a lawyer who was returning home to Delhi from Himachal Pradesh, saw the sanitary landfill at Bhalswa ablaze and said "the air quality seemed dangerous". Indeed it was, and the noxious fumes left people in the vicinity with a choking sensation through the night. While …
Initiatives have been taken to develop an extensive inventory of greenhouse gases (GHG) emission sources in Delhi. However, there is a need to integrate the emission of air pollutants and GHG, which may have significant overlap and may require a common strategy to mitigate these emissions. This study has developed …
Lata rushes towards the stinking heap of garbage as soon as the dumper pulls away. Anything the 19-year-old can salvage from the trash before the waiting yellow bulldozer flattens it into a man-made hill will add to her day's earnings. The dumper's load -refuse from somewhere in east Delhi -is …
KOCHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the pollution control board (PCB) to inspect the secured landfill areas and effluent collection tanks at Kuzhikandom Thodu on the Eloor-Edayar belt and file an action taken report by October 3. The tribunal passed the order while hearing a petition filed by …
NGT directed HUDA and pollution control board to comply with laws governing management of landfill sites. Even as residents continue to wait for setting up of a waste management plant in Panchkula, the garbage being dumped openly at the Sector 23 dumping site have left the residents angry. In November …
Six months after the Municipal Corporation held a special training-cum-workshop with C Srinivasan, director, Indian Green Services, for its staff and officials, the promise of replicating the successful Vellore model devised by Srinivasan in solving the city’s waste disposal woes seems bleak. Just as the civic body claims that the …
Solid waste from the Ghazipur landfill site in East Delhi would be used in the construction of Delhi-Meerut Expressway, a section of NH-24, in a move aimed at curbing pollution in the city. The standing committee of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday approved the proposal that would pave …
