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 …
Safeway, Vons stores dumped medicines and batteries in landfills, prosecutors allege Safeway Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle allegations that its grocery stores improperly disposed of hazardous waste and customers' medical information in California. The agreement comes after an investigation found that the Pleasanton company was …
A new waste treatment plant capable of turning flue gas treatment residues (FGT) into carbon-negative building products has been granted planning permission to be built in Bristol. The plant, managed by waste treatment firm Carbon8, uses patented technology to recycle FGT residues from Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities, converting it …
The powerful beverages industry offered to display anti-littering messages on its trucks and spend $3.5 million a year on NSW recycling programs in a bid to kybosh the government's plans for a cash-for-containers scheme. The unsuccessful offer, which the industry is scrambling now to improve, was deemed risky and inadequate …
Several concerned citizens called upon the Deputy Commissioner here on Monday demanding that the open dumping and burning of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the city be stopped. The delegation told Deputy Commissioner T.L. Satyaprakash that a mini landfill had illegally come up behind Nirvana Country in Sector 50 off …
The BBMP finally stopped sending waste to the Mandur landfill on December 1. Two years after the City was in throes of garbage, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) started learning the basics of scientific disposal of waste in 2014. After repeatedly going back on the promises made to the …
The city’s 9,400 tonne of municipal solid waste, generated per day, can soon be diverted to the Kanjurmarg dumping site as the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has approved change in technology for processing waste at the Kanjurmarg plant, a proposal that was stuck for the past five years. …
The city’s 9,400 tonne of municipal solid waste, generated per day, can soon be diverted to the Kanjurmarg dumping site as the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has approved change in technology for processing waste at the Kanjurmarg plant, a proposal that was stuck for the past five years. …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of People for Transparency Through Kamal Anand & Others Vs. State of Punjab &Ors.; dated 25/11/2014 regarding Environmental Clearance for establishment of Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management facility in an area of 20 acre at Mansa road, …
AT&T; Inc (T.N) will pay $52 million in civil penalties and environmental compliance as part of a settlement with California over illegal dumping of hazardous waste but won't be required to clean up the resulting contamination, state officials said on Thursday. State officials said it marked the first enforcement action …
Zero Waste Scotland has launched a new fund to help Scottish fashion designers create zero-waste, closed-loop clothing ranges. The Circular Economy Textiles and Apparel Grant Fund offers textile designers up to £5000 each, with successful applicants also receiving mentoring from an industry expert. Zero Waste Scotland is specifically looking for …
The Bombay high court, in an interim order on Wednesday , said the National Green Tribunal should not proceed with the Kanjurmarg dumping ground issue. Earlier this year, the tribunal had restricted all dumping and reclamation activity at the proposed dumping ground located along Thane creek. A bench, comprising Chief …
A landfill site for garbage disposal seems to be eluding Pune Municipal Corporation. After the district administration handed over a list of stone quarries to the Corporation to make a choice, the civic administration zeroed in on a 25-hectare land in Moshi in the jurisdiction of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. Even …
Recycling and resource management firm FCC Environment has launched an assessment of how the UK's political landscape might affect the waste and resource agenda over the next five years. The 'Mapping the politics of waste' report examines the coalition Government's waste policy and the manifestos of the five main political …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Bhausaheb S/o Bhimaji Kulat & Anr. V/s State of Maharashtra & Ors. dated 05/11/2014 regarding disposal of garbage in Ahmedngar city.
The Government has rejected calls, made by the Environmental Audit Committee, to require new products to be recyclable and to ban food waste going to landfill to help stimulate the circular economy. In its report entitled 'Ending the Throwaway Society: Growing a Circular Economy', published in July, the cross-party Environmental …
CORTALIM: The Cortalim-Quelossim sarpanch came in for strong criticism from the gram sabha members after he feigned ignorance over the massive CRZ violation for a multi-crore project in his ward at Quelossim. During the debate on the issue of CRZ violation raised by Mariano Dias, Sarpanch Hillario Figueiredo who incidentally …
A plan to minimise garbage being sent to the city’s landfill sites has been set in motion by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), which is inviting expressions of interest for its ‘zero garbage’ model this week. SDMC Commissioner Manish Gupta said on Tuesday that the civic body would be …
The Royal Mail successfully implemented simple sustainability measures across energy efficiency, water use and waste disposal, including a 19% reduction in C02 emissions compared with a 2005 baseline. The company also reduced the amount of carbon emissions per £1 million of revenue by 5% compared with last year, thanks to …
Although I was aware that the pollution caused by landfill couldn't be doing the environment much good, I hadn't realised quite how much the methane from such dumps contribute to global warming. According to Innocent Sibeko, managing director of waste management company, Exergy Enviro Group, and one of the African …
Processing Unit Coming Up Here After the Mandur flare-up, the government had declared it would set up by December 1 a scientific processing unit to treat 3,500 tonnes of waste produced by the city every day .With just over 45 days for the deadline to expire, the issue is set …
