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 …
Basic infrastructure for Lahore’s first sanitary landfill at Lakhodair to built at a cost of Rs7 billion, has been completed. Having an approximate length of 1.5 kilometres, a 32 feet wide dual carriage way had been built from Ring Road to the landfill site to facilitate vehicles in approaching there …
It will recommend optimal level of fresh mining that can be underatken PANJIM: A team of scientists from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has arrived in Goa to study impact of mining on the State. NEERI is mandated to recommend the optimal level of fresh ore extraction that …
The environmental damage due to mismanagement of plastic waste is a matter of serious concern. The landfill sites are mostly filled with plastic waste due to littering habits and non-biodegradability of plastic wastes which persist for several years and therefore, may creates complexities on land and water. To validate the …
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is planning to involve the private sector for door-to-door garbage collection in the city. Although private firms were collecting waste from homes and streets, it was illegal till the Waste Management Act 2011 came into force. However, private companies are still collecting waste without any agreement …
NGT Cracks Whip On Private Firm Managing Landfill Rajkot: In a major victory for nearly 8,000 people of six villages near Rajkot, the National Green Tribunal, (NGT), Pune has ordered the private firm managing the municipal solid waste of the city to pay a compensation of Rs 25 lakh for …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Paryavaran Mitra (Janvikas) Ors. Vs Gujarat State Pollution Control Board Ors dated 20/12/2013 regarding air and water pollution caused by the Rajkot Municipal Solid Waste disposal and landfill management site at village Nakravadi, managed by Rajkot Municipal Corporation and M/s …
The city is all set to adopt an integrated solid waste management strategy to cope with emerging challenges to implementation of projects. A meeting to finalise the report on integrated solid waste management strategy was held on Tuesday with international consultants of Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), a regional …
Millions of tonnes of old electronic goods illegally exported to developing countries, as people dump luxury items Millions of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, toys, digital cameras and other electronic devices bought this Christmas are destined to create a flood of dangerous "e-waste" that is being dumped illegally in developing countries, …
BHOPAL: The central zone bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up the pollution control board, civic officials and senior state government officers for non-compliance on its earlier notices regarding Bhanpur landfill in the state capital. The state pollution control board and civic body seem unaware about the …
Trucks transporting waste to Mandur, choose to dump it midway, into Rampura lake. The garbage crisis is taking its toll on Rampura lake in East Bangalore with waste being dumped there. The lake is gradually being converted into a landfill, with garbage transporters conveniently dumping garbage midway instead of taking …
Two initial phases of the under-construction Lahore Sanitary Landfill Project (LSLP) at Lakhodair have been completed. Work on LSLP was commenced on Oct 1 under the consultancy of Nespak with a target to complete it till May next year, said a spokesperson for the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) here …
Ahmedabad: Plastic objects, from the everyday bag to large containers, are infamous for their immortality. They can survive for hundreds — even thousands — of years and are often the cause for indestructible mounds of waste around cities. But two academic institutes from Gujarat have come up with a solution …
The built-up area in the National Capital Region, which includes residential, non-residential, landfill sites, etc., has increased by 34.6 per cent from 1999-2012. This has happened mostly at the expense of green areas and water bodies which have gone down by 22.5 per cent and 5.9 per cent, respectively. These …
The 5,000 tonnes of garbage generated in the city per day has the potential to be converted to 12 crore litre of aviation fuel and 4.5 crore litre of diesel per year. An expert told Express that through plasma gasification and vitrification process, a technology developed by NASA, the garbage …
A new scientific report shows that by moving rapidly to reduce pollutants such as methane and black carbon, could slow warming in critical snow and ice-covered regions while benefitting human welfare. Continued melting in snow and ice-covered regions will rise sea levels further, threaten water resources, and release more carbon …
Fearing pollution in the area, around 200 locals from Deep Nagar Curti, Ponda, stopped a truck full of garbage on Wednesday afternoon. The locals allowed the truck to dump the garbage only after deputy sarpanch and two panch members along with police persuaded them to do so. Curti-Khandepar sarpanch Deepa …
The state pollution control board has asked the civic chief to ensure the segregation of solid waste generated within municipal limits as bio-degradable and non bio-degradable and to set up a facility to process it. The letter that came from the Mumbai member secretary of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board on Wednesday granted the State government ‘consent to establish’ solid waste treatment plants at Calangute/Saligao in North Goa and at Cacora in South Goa. The consent to establish waste treatment plant under Air Act, Water Act and the Hazardous Waste Rules has been granted. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Go Green Welfare Association Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/10/2013 regarding constructing of waste management plant/solid land fills at Sector 123 Noida. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/105-2013(OA)_23Oct2013.pdf
