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 …
Municipal bodies will be allowed to charge user fees and levy spot fines for littering and non-segregation The Environment Ministry has notified rules making it incumbent on a wide range of groups — hotels, residential colonies, bulk producers of consumer goods, ports, railway stations, airports and pilgrimage spots — to …
About 150 loads of garbage, including wet waste, enters the Mavallipura landfill every day. Even as a garbage crisis looms large over the city, Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath from the BJP, on Monday, threatened to close the Mavallipura landfill if BBMP fails to process wet waste being dumped at …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Prakash Chander Kapur & Others Vs Union of India Rep. by its Chief Secretary Union Territory of Puducherry & Others regarding Karuvadikuppam Muncipal Sold Waste (MSW) dumping site in Puducherry dated 05/04/2016. It is stated that dumping …
Varanasi: The city is suffering insanitation woes as the municipal waste has not been transported to the dumping site in Ramna locality for last four days. The villagers of Ramna are protesting against dumping of garbage after heaps of garbage caught fire causing thick smoke in the area for many …
A day after a meeting with Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar in relation to the fire incidents at the Deonar dumping ground, BMC Commissioner Ajoy Mehta on Thursday said it would follow a scientific process to dispose of waste. The smoke from the dumping ground had caused the air quality …
Welcoming the Centre's decision to notify construction and demolition management rules, a green body today said it was "urgently" needed as cities are choking on such waste which has serious environmental and public health consequences. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said the next step should be to create …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the first-ever notification on construction and demolition waste management rules, 2016, by the Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change. The Centre said that the initiative was "urgently" needed as cities are choking on such waste which has serious environmental and …
MUMBAI: After a few days of 'good' to 'moderate' air quality levels, the pollution in the city breached the 'poor' category on Monday. According to the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (Safar), Mumbai recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 228 during the day which bettered only …
Any attempt to reclaim landfill for development should factor in physico-chemical characteristics of waste, says the study. While the City may be expanding at a rapid rate, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have warned that any attempt to try and reclaim land for development from former landfills …
The fire seems to have been caused due to methane gas,” B T Jadhav, senior inspector of Shivaji Nagar police station told The Sunday Express. The BMC has claimed that the recent fire at the Deonar dumping ground was an act of sabotage, but police officials have denied any sabotage …
MPCB officials said that these four polluters usually caused the maximum damage to air quality. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has sought steps to monitor four major air polluters in the city — dumping grounds, Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) plants, industries and vehicles. In January, the Air Quality Index …
The demolition drive was undertaken by the BMC after a massive fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground and fire brigade officials complained of access difficulty due to encroachment by illegal hutments. AFTER protesting residents of the slum around Deonar dumping ground brought the BMC’s demolition drive to a …
Mumbai's degraded waste at Kanjurmarg will produce electricity from April. The Rs 4.5 crore Guascor engine from Spain, to convert methane gas into electricity, will arrive at the landfill site on March 25 and the project will be commissioned next month. If it succeeds, it will be the city's first …
NAVI MUMBAI: Residents and industrial workers are peeved about a dumping ground being created along MIDC main road, a stone's throw away from NMMC's landfill site. Residents alleged that miscreants and even civic operators dump the trash on the open plot of land between Mahape and Turbhe, which belongs to …
Keeping in consideration rising pollution levels due to burning of waste, East Corporation has installed a plant at its Ghazipur landfill site to extract methane gas on a trial basis. The highly flammable gas is found in massive amounts at landfill sites due to mix-up of different types of chemicals. …
A little more than a month ago, the Indian government unveiled a grand campaign to spur innovation among startups. The Startup India programme, a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hopes to harness the ‘energy and drive’ of a ‘nation of youngsters’ in order to dramatically boost job creation …
The rise of plastics since the mid-20th century, both as a material element of modern life and as a growing environmental pollutant, has been widely described. Their distribution in both the terrestrial and marine realms suggests that they are a key geological indicator of the Anthropocene, as a distinctive stratal …
Dumpsites exist throughout the developing countries present a threat to human health for the next several years; this is because most of these countries follow the practice of open dumping of solid wastes. Most of these dumping sites are uncontrolled and years old, having grown over time from small dumps …
Thousands of landfill dumps around the UK are at risk of being compromised by flooding and coastal erosion, sparking fears that dangerous substances could spill into rivers, streets and beaches, academics warn. The UK faces a “toxic timebomb” after an analysis of its ageing dumps revealed that 2,946 are located …
At a time when the country's richest civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is struggling to find more space for dumping the garbage, a small municipal council in neighbouring Thane district is experimenting with organic way to tackle the problem. Vice president of Kulgaon-Badlapur municipal council Shridhar Patil told reporters …
