Landfill

Order of the Supreme Court regarding waste management at Adampur landfill site, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 07/04/2025

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 …

Haryana pollution board writes to MC chief on illegal dumping ground

Requesting that the temporary dumping site used by the Municipal Corporation in Sector 23 be shifted, the regional officer of Haryana State Pollution Control Board has sent a communique in this regard to the chairman. The communication has been sent after an inspection was conducted of the site by the …

MMCs attitude on waste treatment plant at Sonsodo raises eyebrows

All appears quite in the Margao Municipal Council on the signing of the Concession Agreement with Fomento for the setting up of the waste treatment plant at Sonsodo. While it

Filling of mangrove areas at city entrance continues

Environmentalists and social activists on Tuesday blamed the authorities concerned for turning a Nelson

Impact of the global forest industry on atmospheric greenhouse gases

This new publication examines complex connections between the global forest products industry and the global carbon cycle, with the objective of characterizing the carbon footprint of the sector. The analysis finds that the industry’s main sources of emissions are manufacturing and disposal of used products in landfills. See Also Report: …

Use Sada to dispose waste, not as landfill site: HC to MMC

The Bombay High Court at Goa today ordered the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) not to carry out a landfill site at Sada, while allowing them to go ahead with their garbage disposal process.The Division Bench comprising of Justice A S Oka and Justice F M Reis further directed MMC to …

Green signal to landfill site at Bawana

TIMES NEWS NETWORKNew Delhi: With the three existing landfill sites having exhausted their capacity a while ago, MCD has finally got some relief in dealing with Delhi

Action plan for Tarapur industrial areas

CPCB has published a report on Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Cluster in December 2009. In respect of industrial estates in the Maharashtra Chandrapur, Dombivali, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai & Tarapur have been designated as critical /severe from environmental pollution angle. This is the action plan for Tarapur industrial areas.

Technical EIA guidance manual for common hazardous waste treatment storage and disposal facilities

The Technical Guidance Manual of Common Hazardous Waste Treatrnent Storage and Disposal Facilities sector describes types of EIA, process and pollution control technologies, operational aspects of EIA wiih model TOR of that sector, and waste minimization techniques, monitoring of environmental quality, post clearance monitoring protocol, related regulations, and procedure of …

Rs 2.18cr for auto cluster project

Jamshedpur, July 19: The state industry department today sanctioned Rs 2.18 crore as first instalment for the ambitious Adityapur auto cluster project. The department issued a sanctioned letter to Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited (AACL) during a review meeting held at the office of industry secretary A.P. Singh in Ranchi. The …

Operation Clean-up

There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …

Trash to cash

Students from over 1,200 municipal schools in Mumbai do not litter packets after finishing their favourite flavoured milk, which they receive under the school feeding programme. They neatly fold the cartons and drop them in a bin in the campus. A paper mill in Gujarat sends its truck every day …

UPJN to ready new site plan for MSW project

LUCKNOW: The UP Jal Nigam (UPJN) is doing all it can to make the proposed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) plant at Kakori a reality. After the State Advisory Council met the senior members of UPJN on June 14, the implementing authority for the plant is busy preparing a fresh blueprint …

Fear in Mango belt

The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance. Known for the oldest mango tree of the variety

Air Force sees threat in new landfill near its base

The Indian Air Force has strongly protested the decision of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to set up a landfill facility to dump waste at a site in Bawana-Narela, citing bird strikes and environmental threat to its adjacent station. As the site is located only 3.5 km away from …

Childhood lead exposure after the phaseout of leaded gasoline: ?An ecological study of school-age children in Kampala, Uganda

Although tetraethyl lead was phased out of gasoline in Uganda in 2005, there are still concerns about the exposure of children through other sources. Graber et al. (p. 884) measured blood lead distributions among schoolchildren living near the Kiteezi landfill in Kampala, using a stratified, cross-sectional design to obtain blood …

Drugs in the environment: Do pharmaceutical take-back programs make a difference?

The state of Maine experimented with drugs last year. The state had already tested several methods?for collecting unused pharmaceuticals, with varying degrees of success. After tracking surprisingly high concentrations of pharmaceuticals in landfill leachate

Filth near abattoir: SC pulls up civic body for hollow promises

The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed shock at the inaction of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in addressing the absence of a boundary wall to prevent the flow of waste from a 70-acre landfill site next to the Ghazipur abattoir.

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