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 …
We have managed to convince the villagers, says commissioner The decision of Mandur residents to give another chance to the government has brought a temporary solution to the mounting problem of garbage disposal. Residents of Mandur have agreed to “co-operate” with the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike on dumping the City’s …
Area stinks as municipal authorities have not lifted garbage for the past three months In the absence of sweepers at Jugiana village, the residents are going through a torturous phase. Thanks to the apathy of the Municipal authorities, the village is in a bad condition for the past three months …
The status of waste management in the state is extremely poor and municipal corporations are not being serious about this issue. To ensure that civic bodies in the state adhere to the 2015 deadline set by the Bombay High Court to set up functional solid waste treatment and processing facilities, …
Mandur villagers are restive. With the ban orders in force and BBMP garbage trucks continuing to dump garbage in their midst, they have decided to go on a satyagraha from Friday . Some 80 villagers met freedom fighter HS Doreswamy here on Wednesday and decided to undertake a fast unto …
Even as the existing sanitary landfill sites in the city are overflowing with garbage, the Congress has decided to protest the proposal of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation to establish a sanitary landfill site at the Maidan Garhi village in South Delhi. Questioning the proposed location for garbage dumping, the …
Nearly 25 lakh tonnes of garbage have accumulated in Mandur landfill. Bangalore is not alone in facing garbage disposal problems. Mumbai and Delhi too face the disposal crisis. If Bangalore can’t dispose off 4,000 odd tonnes of waste generated every day, Mumbai and Delhi can’t treat the 7,500 tonnes and …
Mumbai is hostage to air and water pollution at dangerous levels, and is probably the n the world, ahead of Delhi and Kolkata. Maharashtra's economic survey , released a day before World Environment Day (Thursday), paints a grim picture for the rest of the state as well. Of particular concern …
Massive Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) imports coupled with lack of proper recycling policies and inadequate implementation processes have made India its dumping ground, states the Toxics Link’s latest publication “Looking Through Glass-CRT Glass Recycling in India”, released recently in the city. CRT, popularly called the picture tube, is generally used …
The garbage crisis in the City has deepened further with protests spreading to the villages near other landfills at Terra Firma in Doddaballapur and the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) unit at Kudlu, off Hosur Road, Bommanahalli. The garbage crisis in the City has deepened further with protests spreading to …
The Tibet autonomous region will take effective measures to dispose of solid waste, as 41 landfills were put into use to take care of the waste last year, local officials said on June 4. In 2013, the region discharged 3.61 million metric tons of solid waste, and 244,000 tons of …
Minister Ramalinga Reddy and officials assured the protesters they would sort out the garbage issue, but sped away when the situation threatened to turn hostile The protest intensified after Ravikrishna Reddy of the Aam Aadmi Party intervened. He said, “Some of you enter into an agreement with elected representatives and …
With the new government at the Centre looking to quicken the nod for infrastructure projects, Chennai-based activist Arun Krishnamurthy cautions that development should never be at the cost of environmental damage. The 26-year-old quit a well paid job at Google and got out of his comfort zone to start Environmentalist …
TAXILA: The Punjab chief minister’s inspection team has initiated an investigation into the alleged mismanagement, embezzlement and violation of construction plan in the multimillion solid waste management project of Hassanabdal. The World Bank had provided Rs31.3 million for the project, work on which was initiated in 2009. About 10 months …
The Scottish Parliament has approved new regulations to introduce a charge for single-use carrier bags. The regulations, which will be brought into law under the Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Scotland) Regulations 2014, were approved by MSPs in a vote by 100 votes to 12. MSPs at Holyrood backed the …
In a major triumph for green activists, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned all non-forest activities in Manda Khal and Gadoli Khal forest regions in Pauri. The sites were being used for dumping municipal waste and debris by stone-crushers. On a petition against the Uttarakhand government, NGT chairperson Justice …
Businesses across the country now have access to the world's first guidance document which outlines how to design effective food waste prevention programmes based on proven experiences across the globe. The new tool - Think.Eat.Save Guidance Version 1.0 - has been released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the …
City generates about 450 metric tonnes of waste daily The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), assisted by some non-government organisations and citizens’ groups, now plans to rope in the hundreds of waste-collectors in the city to encourage waste segregation at source as part of its plan to de-centralise waste management. …
The city is sitting on the edge of another garbage crisis as BBMP's agreement with Mandur villagers on dumping waste there is coming to an end on June 1. While the villagers have threatened to block throwing of garbage in the landfill, the civic agency is struggling to find either …
The civic body is going to uproot around 40 coconut trees along the Rankala Lake at Shalini Palace to prevent them from weakening the protection wall, resulting in its collapse. This decision was taken after the collapse of a 35 feet section of the wall on Monday. The roots of …
Officials express doubt if the project will ever come up Efforts by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to scientifically dispose of the accumulated waste at the landfill in Mandur seem to have come to nought. Though the civic body has floated a tender to clear the waste, officials doubt if …
