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 …
Concerned over frequent fires at the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards and snowed under by complaints from residents about air pollution and health hazards, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board decided to install realtime continuous air quality monitoring stations in these areas. It has been almost two years since plans …
Industrial pollution, in varying forms ranging from lead acid battery recycling to landfill sites, has been affecting Delhi’s residents in adverse ways, as noted by a study of pollution hotspots by NGO Toxics Link. The most worrying aspect, the study notes, is the manner in which such pollutants seep into …
The volume of municipal waste “recovered” through incineration and recycling has exceeded than the tonnage being sent to landfill for the first time since records began, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In its 2012 National Waste Report, the EPA said 59 per cent of municipal waste was recovered that …
The Supreme Court has upheld the demolition of the compound wall around the 141-hectare Kanjurmarg dumping ground. The wall was blocking the flow of tidal water to the mangroves on the land. In November 2013, the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had submitted a report to the Bombay …
The scientific closure of the garbage depot at Phursungi-Urali will now be delayed. According to a civic administration proposal, the deadline for the capping project will be extended to December 2015 instead of June 2014. The standing committee of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will take a call on the new …
The city’s garbage has acquired political significance as a fight between Purandar Shiv Sena MLA Vijay Shivtare and NCP MP Supriya Sule hots up. The Shiv Sena has warned that the civic body’s garbage vehicles will not be allowed to enter the village after August 8 because the civic body …
The government notified a town in Tochigi Prefecture on Wednesday that it has been picked as a candidate site for the final disposal of some of the radiation-tainted waste resulting from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. More than 100 residents in the town, which is called Shioya, gathered in front …
The Modi government not only plans to build new smart cities, but also make the existing ones smarter. The Prime Minister’s Office is working with the urban development ministry on an ambitious plan to give substantial subsidy to those cities that excel in areas like environment protection, waste management, renewable …
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand over two of the four earmarked landfill sites to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) without any further delay. The Court asked the NDMC to take possession of the …
Building an average new house generates about nine tonnes of waste. Across Australia one authority estimates 250,000 cubic metres of building waste are sent to landfill each year while another expresses the quantum as 8.5 million tonnes. Globally the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that buildings account for …
Finding radioactive oil field waste is 'a game of cat-and-mouse,' North Dakota landfill director says Bakken oil boom spurs fear of improperly dumped hazardous waste in North Dakota Every weekday, about a dozen large garbage trucks peel away from the oil boom that has spread through western North Dakota to …
Procter & Gamble's global waste reduction leader Dr Forbes McDougall has underlined the company's commitment to finding innovative ways to deal with its waste materials. Successes include converting scrap material from the manufacture of Pampers-branded nappies and wipes into upholstery filling, and composting the waste generated from the production of …
BHOPAL: The state government has not submitted master plan for Mandideep town despite green panel's directing it to do so in last three hearings. A petitioner has approached National Green Tribunal (NGT) highlighting the absence of solid waste disposal and corrective measure in industrial town of Mandideep in Raisen district. …
The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene have opposed the plans of the Palike to identify a site in Doddaballapur taluk for disposing garbage. Addressing a press meet on Monday, KRRS president Kodihalli Chandrashekhar said that garbage from the City was already being dumped at Cheerenahalli, Huskuru and …
Construction debris is the biggest cause of dust pollution in Bangalore. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has come out with a short-term solution: construction industries should manage their waste and dump it at a designated site, which will be converted into artificial sand and sold back to them. …
The levels of heavy metals are measured at different dumpsites with different distances and directions under the jurisdiction of Greater Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad for ascertaining the soil and groundwater quality and forecasting as a part of integrated municipal solid waste (MSW) management study.
A study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has revealed that 10 to 15 per cent of the total three lakh tonnes of waste generated daily goes to illegal dumping sites on the outskirts of the City. Over 250 small illegal dumping sites have been identified by a …
The next iPhone is coming out in a few months’ time. Before the end of the year, televisions with till now unheard of technology and laptops thinner and lighter than anything in the market will be released. Parallel to that, some of the devices being used now are slowing down …
No dedicated site for disposing of 400 tonnes of garbage generated in Jammu With the state government unable to identify any land for dumping of solid waste generated by 15 lakh inhabitants of the city, the civic authorities are disposing of the waste in trenches around the city and filling …
Six months after a chemical spill fouled a vital West Virginia water supply, a fight is brewing over the tons of waste it left behind. The small city of Hurricane, W.Va., and surrounding Putnam County, want two subsidiaries of Waste Management Inc. WM +0.54% that operate a local landfill to …
