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 …
The European Commission has today (2 July) unveiled a revamped package of waste and recycling targets to accelerate Europe's transition to a circular economy. The 'Circular Economy Package' requires member states to recycle 70% of municipal waste and 80% of packaging waste by 2030. A zero-waste-to-landfill policy for plastics, paper, …
As part of the President's Climate Action Plan — Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing updates to its air standards for new municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. These updates would require certain landfills to capture additional landfill gas, which would reduce emissions of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Ors. dated 03/07/2014 regarding landfill dumping site at the Achan dumping site in the outskirts of Srinagar. Funds that have been sanctioned by the Central …
Councils will have to recycle 70% of household waste by the end of the next decade, under proposals unveiled on Wednesday by the European commission. This would require a significant increase in the proportion of UK waste diverted from landfill. At least 80% of packaging waste will also have to …
Former landfill sites in Dumfries and Galloway are being earmarked for redevelopment as solar energy "farms". The council is looking to negotiate a deal with an investment company specialising in the renewables sector. A range of potential uses have been investigated for the four former waste landfill sites across the …
For Dwarka residents, sanitation has been a pending concern. Efforts and false starts notwithstanding, South Delhi Municipal Corporation has been unable to streamline the waste management system in the sub-city. But now the civic agency will implement its first 'zero waste' project here. The waste generated in Dwarka will be …
When DDA got down to actual paperwork to transfer the land, it emerged that two of the sites in Maidangarhi belong to the forest department The search for alternate landfill sites for waste management in the city has hit another roadblock. Following Delhi high court’s intervention, South Delhi Municipal Corporation …
Inventor Martin Myerscough and the Green Your Cup, which has a thin film liner which separates easily from the paper 'Cardboard' bottle creator produces cup design aimed at cutting 25,000 tones of landfill waste a year. The world's first fully recyclable paper cup will soon make its debut on the …
Continuous dumping of garbage in landfills will turn them into toxic emission site. Toxic gases tend to envelope vast area via speeding winds, and changing landfill sites is no solution, scientists warned. Organic waste, when dumped unscientifically, decomposes owing to the presence of anaerobic bacteria. Decomposition over a long time …
It has come to light that many garbage disposal-related projects in the pipeline face numerous problems, ranging from land acquisition process, protests near the places where these projects are coming up and breakdown of negotiations. The State government has appointed Darpan Jain as the first Special Commissioner for Solid Waste …
The recent protests by Mandur residents over dumping of garbage in their village highlighted how the BBMP failed to keep its promise of setting up garbage processing units at various locations in the City and its outskirts. The BBMP, along with the Bruhat Bangalore Hotels’ Association (BBHA) and the Pune-based …
No garbage truck from Bangalore will enter Mandur after December 1. This decision was announced on Tuesday after a meeting at Vikasa Soudha chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Representatives of the village came out of the meeting holding a copy of the government’s schedule to taper the dumping. Bangalore District …
Design, Components Of Vehicles Not Tested, Amendment Provides Blanket Exemption exemption from future testing as well. Transport experts say technical testing of the vehicles is a must, especially when they will carry four passengers and 50kg of luggage. A senior Delhi government official said, “No sanction has been given for …
The trucks start rolling in before sunrise. Dozens of them, each tipping out tonnes of food waste, grass cuttings and foliage. A month from now this organic waste will leave here in the form of rich compost, as fine as sand. Here, in Vacaville, an hour by road north of …
Government plans for a 5p charge on single-use plastic bags, intended to discourage their use, have been sharply criticised by MPs for not going far enough. The influential environmental audit select committee published its report on the plans on Tuesday, accusing the government of ignoring calls to force all retailers …
Land Securities has achieved a 16% reduction in like-for-like carbon emissions since 2011 - despite a 7% increase in emissions from its London portfolio - keeping the property firm on track to meet its overall target of a 15% overall reduction by 2020. According to the company's 2014 Corporate Responsibility …
On the 15th of June 2014, the representative of Embassy of Japan, Mr. Hitoshi Nakamura, Deputy Chief of the Mission in Sudan, alongside Mr. Seiichi Koike, Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sudan, Dr. Babiker Abdalla Ibrahim, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Physical Development, attended …
Under pressure to avoid a garbage pile up crisis, the state government on Monday agreed to give a written undertaking to Mandur residents that dumping of waste in the landfills near the village would end in the next five months. Speaking to reporters in the City after a review meeting …
A recent study by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has concluded that the capital’s waste management service has been able to collect only 51% of the wastes produced per day for proper disposal. Dhaka city generates approximately 3,500 tons wastes per day from residential, commercial and institutional Municipal Solid Waste …
NGALORE: Continuing their agitation against the dumping of waste in their backyard, Mandur villagers launched an indefinite hunger strike on Sunday. They are firm on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visiting the village before agreeing to an extension to dump waste at the landfill. “I have not seen such a dastardly act …
