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 …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)'s Rochem Green plant to generate energy from waste will soon start generating 10 mega watt electricity. "The plant currently uses 300 metric tonne waste to generate 3 mega watt electricity. It will soon upgraded to take 700 metric tonne waste to generate 10 mega …
Owing to the state government's slack response to garbage treatment problems at the city's dumping grounds, BMC has now decided to take matters into its own hands. It is considering entering into an agreement with landfill contractors, sans approval from the state, for amending a clause in the Mumbai Municipal …
Even amid the hue and cry of environmentalists over the shrinking wetlands, an effort initiated by the Revenue Department to prepare a revised data bank of the actual area of wetlands in the district has reached nowhere. Though the updated list was expected to be completed by the end of …
1.65 lakh tonnes of garbage piled up at Compost Corporation The Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC), with just one sorting (segregation) machine at Singasandra near Hosur Road, is struggling hard to handle 1.65 lakh tonnes of “historical” waste — garbage that has piled up over the years. The sorting machine …
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) does not have single scientifically approved landfill site considering that it generates 60 per cent of solid waste in municipal bodies across State, as per Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) statistics. KSPCB distributed these statistics on pamphlets to citizens at BBMP sponsored — Wake …
The European Court of Auditors has criticised the EU's waste management infrastructure, which has received €10.8 billion in structural funding since 2000, for its "limited" effectiveness. The average European citizen generates around 500kg of municipal waste per year, a source of environmental degradation unless properly collected, treated and disposed. Refuse …
Many companies have evinced interest in setting up garbage processing units The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) commissioner Siddaiah was woken up to the garbage mess that’s left the city scarred along with some of its outskirts. He asserted that there would be no more landfills around Bangalore for dumping …
Move May Run Into Citizens’ Resistance Bangalore: Get set for allocating some space in your neighbourhood park or playground for the BBMP to set up its waste segregation unit. Pushed to the wall over the way the garbage crisis has been handled, the civic body has turned to vacant spaces. …
The government and BBMP would finalise the SWM proposals submitted by over 35 companies by March 1 The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will urge the communities living around the Mandur landfill to allow dumping of garbage for some more time until alternate arrangements are made. The communities had set …
Mumbai: Days after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal in connection with a case of alleged illegal construction on Pune’s Mutha river, but kept open the questions of law involved, the National Green Tribunal in Delhi has issued a bailable warrant against the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), the state …
Households Not Sorting Waste Before Disposal, Contractors Doing A Poor Job New Delhi: They were set up across several parts of the city with much fanfare in 2009 but the green and blue dustbins that were meant to facilitate waste segregation are being used like ordinary bins now. Even at …
PANJIM: In an interesting development, M/s Axis Ltd has approached the Administrative Tribunal, Goa, challenging the Goa State Pollution Control Board’s decision to seal its premises, over the issue of 25,000 tons of hazardous waste lying at their site at Plot number L-2 and L-3, at the Cuncolim Industrial Estate. …
Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Chairman Wimal Rubasinghe made an inspection tour at Sri Lanka's first ever sanitary landfill site in Dompe recently. The aim of the inspection tour was to decide future investment on the site and to look into the quality and standard of the construction being progressed. The …
The once-pristine 57-acre Kacharakanahalli lake has been turned into a virtual landfill with the Bangalore Development Authority dumping mud and debris into it, gobbling up almost one third of the water body. Another part of the lake has a temple, a dhobi ghat, a slum and small patch of greenery. …
MARGAO: The plots containing the hazardous waste finally lay sealed at the Cuncolim Industrial Estate, but questions have come to the fore how the authorities overlooked the 20,000 tons of waste in the two plots while granting permissions to the present occupier the Axis to use the land for industrial …
The Mandur landfill site is set to shut down on February 1 depriving Bangaloreans of a major rubbish dumping yard. But a majority of the citizens are yet to grasp the concept of segregation of waste at source and implement it, thus potentially paving the way for another garbage crisis …
Chief Officer Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Matanat Ali Khan, with the collaboration of all towns, has established a Controlling Cell for improvement of cleanliness condition in the city which would take measures for look it up at town level. In a meeting on Tuesday, Matanat said thousands tons of garbage …
Thirty landfill sites have closed in the past year, reflecting the decreasing amount of waste being disposed of in this way in the UK. Latest figures from BDS Marketing Research show that since 2008, 130 landfill sites have closed since 2008. Despite 30 sites closing during 2012, this has been …
The City found itself in a garbage conundrum, even as Palike bigwigs were busy battling BMTF The year 2012 will be remembered most for the ugly transformation of the Garden City into the Garbage City, thanks to vested interests, indifferent citizens and the administrative breakdown in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara …
After Bio-medical waste, it's now chemical waste that is threatening the city. A truck carrying huge quantity of chemical waste from a beverage plant was intercepted on Monday. It was the Mandur villagers who stopped a vehicle around 9 pm on Monday night and alerted the BBMP officials about efforts …
