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 …
A new partnership has started providing enough clean, green energy to power 2,000 homes across North Yorkshire after establishing an innovative way to capture and recycle the energy produced by a landfill site. The Walled Garden Partnership was set up by former landfill owners Tony and Gill Eyers 18 months …
Irate residents to meet CM over ‘illegal dumping’ Roiled by garbage trucks being allowed inside the Mandur landfill site despite protests, members of the Mandur grama panchayat on Tuesday said they would meet Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar shortly to discuss the matter. Lamenting the pathetic state of their village, the …
The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to submit the status report on illegal dumping of debris and waste in Subramanyapura Lake in Uttarahalli of Bangalore South. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) on the garbage crisis in the City on December 13, the …
MARGAO: A day after directions were issued to the South Goa district Collector to seal the premises in plot Nos L-2 and L-3 in the Cuncolim Industrial Estate, the Goa State pollution Control Board (GSPCB) is mulling criminal proceedings against the occupants for allegedly handling hazardous wastes dumped on the …
Margao Municipal Council’s solid waste management plant finally stands commissioned at Sonsodo. Open dumping of waste is now a thing of the past. But, the civic body has a long way to go in tackling tons of waste generated in the commercial capital, reports Guilherme Almeida After a bitter experience …
The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has intensified its efforts to dissipate the message over garbage disposal across the city. Besides initiating projects to convert waste into energy by adopting new technologies by tying up with a couple of industries and institutions, it has now taken up an intensive campaign to …
The residents of Mandur remained indoors as ban orders under Section 144 of the CrPC remained in force for the fourth consecutive day in the village in the wake of protests against dumping of garbage at the landfill site. Amid tight security, nearly 200 truckloads of garbage from the City …
More than 100 vehicles stranded; residents continue protest Stiff resistance by the residents of Mandur against dumping garbage in the landfill there has forced more than 100 trucks to be stationed near the Hoskote Circle. On Tuesday too, there was no sign of the villagers relenting. The villagers’ protest had …
The Vilappilsala people's forum on Monday contended that the environmental study ordered by the Kerala High Court at Vilappisala treatment plant is unwarranted as the functioning of the waste plant there has been statutorily prohibited. The Samara Samithi (forum of protesters) put forward this contention in an affidavit filed in …
The Karnataka High Court has made waste-segregation at source mandatory. Will this rid the city of its garbage woes, asks Imran Khan IN THE past four months, Bengaluru, the ‘garden city’, has turned into a ‘garbage city’ as the BJP-led state government and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP, the …
Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally with programs such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) providing funding for many WtE projects across the world. In India alone, 31 such facilities are expected to be funded, even as their technological appropriateness …
The BMC has appointed a technical advisory committee of experts to tackle solid waste management problems in the city. It will have its first meeting in early December. The panel includes the zonal director-general of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) Mumbai office, officials from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, …
With a strong tradition of recycling and incinerating, it now has too many waste-to-energy incinerators and not enough rubbish to meet demand. It has become Europe's biggest importer of trash from other countries, currently mainly from Norway. But as the European Union seeks to reduce the dumping of 150 million …
‘Present contractors shall carry dry and wet wastes separately’ The High Court on Thursday set a deadline of two weeks for the Karnataka government and BBMP to submit a status report on steps taken to tackle the garbage menace in Bangalore. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by city-based …
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday warned that it would initiate contempt proceedings against the State government if it fails to devise an effective garbage disposal mechanism. Hearing a PIL filed by advocate G R Mohan, seeking supercession of the BBMP for its failure to address the garbage disposal issue, …
Tardy projects at Deonar, Mulund sites irk BMC The civic administration, fed up with the delay in partial closure of the Deonar dumping ground and setting up of a methanisation plant at the Mulund dumping ground, is being forced to to consider cancelling the contracts of companies handling these sites. …
Will the Cuncolim Industrial Estate be finally rid of the 25,000 tons of Hazardous waste lying in the plot which once housed Ms Sunrise Zinc and is now occupied by Ms Axis Pvt Ltd? This question has come to the fore as the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has …
Daily Earning Dips To 100-200 As Okhla Project Uses Up 1,300 Tonnes Tehreen Nisha has spent her early years watching people sort the waste at the Okhla landfill site every day. About 150 families of ragpickers living on the periphery of Tughlaqabad village depend on waste from this site for …
Heaps of burnt crackers, mithai boxes and wrappers added to the waste generated in the city on Diwali. This year Delhi produced 1,000-1,200 metric tonnes more Diwali waste than last year, according to the three municipal corporations. Last year, 5,785 tonnes of waste was generated on Diwali eve and 3,563 …
British regulators filed charges against the owners of the Sellafield nuclear waste site on Thursday on allegations of illegal dumping of radioactive waste, adding to the plant's history of controversy and complaints. The nine charges relate to the dumping of low-level waste in a landfill in 2010, the latest in …
