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 …
Say It Does Not Address Pollution Concerns, Propose Model To Reduce Load On Landfills The Planning Commission's taskforce on waste to energy (W2E) has recently recommended a public-private partnership(PPP) model for a combination of waste management technologies, including W2E plants, bio-methanation and composting, that can be integrated to reduce the …
Lending an helping hand to make the city garbage free, Persistent Foundation joined hands with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and NGO Janwani to provide for funds and manpower to spread awareness about the ambitious 'Zero Garbage Ward' project. The project that was launched on pilot basis in 2011 starting from …
BANGALORE: Triggering yet another garbage crisis, residents of Mandur stopped over 200 garbage trucks on Tuesday near the landfill at Mandur, off Old Madras Road, in East Bangalore. They were protesting against the BBMP's tardy implementation of welfare schemes, including supply of clean drinking water, promised to them. The villagers …
Waste dumped at landfill sites represents a growing threat to poor communities in Tunisia, polluting air and water supplies Salah Darghouth's frustration is visible. "You see that guy working on the ninth floor," says the adviser to Tunisia's sustainable development ministry, pointing at a labourer on the half-built tower block …
The U.K. Green Investment Bank will provide 7.5 million pounds ($12.6 million) of funds for a north London plant that will turn food leftovers into power. The money, channeled through Foresight Group LLP, will go toward an anaerobic digestion and green waste composting plant built by D Williams & Co. …
The Thane Creek area is home to 194 recorded species of birds. An NGO on Monday wrote to the Thane collector alleging massive reclamation of wetlands at Mithbunder at Kopri, off Thane Creek. According to Thane-based NGO Paryavaran Dakshata Manch, debris dumped in the reed-filled areas of the Thane creek …
The completion of the municipal solid waste project will only be finished post-monsoon as the construction of the much-needed landfill site at Sonsoddo has been suspended for the last five months. If the work on the sanitary landfill site had been allowed to resume, the citizens of Margao would finally …
The ban imposed by the city district government on dumping of waste into Leh Nullah is being violated by its own Rawalpindi Waste Management Company. The company was tasked with the job of lifting garbage from residential and commercial areas and dumping it at the landfill site in Losar. However, …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), the Delhi government and three civic bodies to explain within four weeks the steps taken to address the acute waste disposal crisis in Delhi. The three municipal corporations along with the MoEF and the Delhi …
Construction debris in Delhi is choking roads, wetlands and green areas and the problem is becoming more acute every year. Dumped callously wherever there is space, it is rarely ever recycled on a large scale. Delhi’s only pilot construction and demolition recycling plant in Burari that recycles about 500 tonnes …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Ministry of Environment, Delhi Government, and three corporations for not taking action even as the hazardous garbage is dumped regularly at landfill sites in the city. Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report on the threat of landfills …
Land belonging to Container Corporation of India in Okhla and one next to Delhi Police Training Complex in Sonia Vihar are among the seven possible areas to develop landfill sites in the capital. The sites have been identified by a Delhi high courtappointed panel for disposal of waste but they …
The UK's 260,000 hospitality and catering outlets produce around four million tonnes of food waste each year Hospitality businesses across the UK should be recycling surplus food, as a new report reveals the sector is set to spend an extra £32m sending food waste to landfill this year. The report …
Colgate-Palmolive recently committed to making 100 percent of its packaging fully recyclable for three out of four product categories by 2020. The three categories set to go recyclable are home, pet and personal care. Colgate has also committed to developing a completely recyclable toothpaste tube or package. In addition, the …
Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centres with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services. The iPhone and iPad maker is detailing its efforts to cultivate a greener Apple …
MARGAO: Will the Town and Country Planning department, Margao Municipal Council and Fomento answer the people of Margao why the proposed landfill site at Sonsodo waste treatment plant has not seen light of the day till date? The integrated waste treatment plant set up at Sonsodo mandates Fomento to set …
Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centres with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services. The iPhone and iPad maker is detailing its efforts to cultivate a greener Apple …
The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, has ordered notice to manufacturers of leading sanitary napkin companies to respond to an activist’s plea on evolving a scientific and eco-friendly disposal mechanism. The Tribunal’s Bench, comprising its judicial member Justice M. Chockalingam and expert member R. Nagendran, took up an application filed …
OBSERVING that an order passed by the National Green Tribunal had ‘overridden’ its previous order and “cannot continue for a single day”, the Bombay High Court Thursday stayed the NGT order that restricted any reclamation and land filling in Kanjurmarg dumping ground. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade …
Not getting any respite from pollution emanating from unprocessed solid waste being dumped by Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) near Nakravadi village, residents of this village along with the adjoining ones have threatened to boycott the Lok Sabha polls. Besides Nakravadi, the residents of Pipaliya, Nagalpar, Khijadiya, Rajgadh, Sokhda and Hadmatiya …
