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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Kamboj & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 18/01/2018 regarding relocation of the Bandhwari Solid Waste Plant and landfill site away from the forest and Aravali Hill area in time bound manner. The Court's attention has been …
Thiruvananthapuram: The capital city, already burdened with disposal of municipal solid waste, generates 1,864.98 tonnes of hazardous waste a year. The inventory of hazardous waste (HW) prepared by State Pollution Control Board shows that 1,032.34 tonnes of hazardous waste are disposed through landfill method while 832.64 tonnes are given to …
BHOPAL: Endless wait for clean-up of state capital's garbage dumping yard at Bhanpur will come to an end on Friday. The civic body aims at recovering two-thirds of the 36-acre landfill site - a cause of concern among greens because of contaminants- in next five years. Over the years, environmentalists …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Environment Pollution & Health Hazards in the State Vs State of Meghalaya & Others dated 13/12/2017 regarding solid waste management in the state of Meghalaya. NGT Eastern Bench directs the State of Meghalaya, MUDA (Meghalaya Urban …
Shopian: An initiative started by a group of sensitive citizens on environmental issues has taken up the onerous task of cleaning the waste and dirt filled water bodies, markets, parks, springs and residential areas. Christened as ‘Save environment, Save Kashmir’, the campaign started from November 8 recently restored several springs …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Others dated 11/11/2017 regarding deteriorating air quality in NCT Delhi. Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal in its Order clearly stated that "as and when the PM10 and PM2.5 crosses values of …
We often talk about corporate or office waste in the sense of using less paper, less electricity, being more sustainable with our computer use, or switching to greener office products. But I had never truly considered the issue of corporate furniture waste until this press release landed in my inbox. …
NOIDA: Over 100 protesters gathered outside the district collectorate in Surajpur and at MLA Pankaj Singh's office in Noida on Monday in protest against the newly designated spot for waste plant in Sector 123. Residents from Sectors 117 to 122 and neighbouring villages handed over their petition to district magistrate's …
THANE: An audit by the state comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has punched holes in the waste disposal process of the Thane civic body pointing out to financial losses to the tune of Rs 1.56 crore over the last few years. The report for 2016 released recently points out how …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Almitra H. Patel & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 27/10/2017 regarding landfills in Delhi. The Commissioner of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation, Special Secretary of Urban Development and officers of Fire Department gave assurance to the Court …
As per the plan, the Central Pollution Control Board will provide air quality data, and the IMD will provide weather data. EVEN AS the Ghazipur landfill smolders and Delhi’s air veers between ‘poor’ and ‘very poor’, the city’s emergency action plan to combat air pollution will come into play on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Almitra H. Patel & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Others dated 22/09/2017 regarding waste dumping at the Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi. Tribunal directs NCT Delhi, East Delhi Municipal Corporation to place before the Tribunal, a Report and Action …
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has presented a four-stage long-term solution for management of landfill sites to Delhi government - starting with flattening the mounds to extracting leachate and gas, to the final stage of capping them aesthetically. After the Ghazipur sanitary landfill site accident, in which two people died …
What will the city do about its growing mountains of waste? Last fortnight, two people died in Delhi because the garbage mountain of the city collapsed on them. The waste dump, called landfill for want of a better word, is more than 50 metres high. It is one of the …
Gurgaon: Civil society members, civic authorities and private sector biggies have joined hands to do "something different" to inculcate better waste management practices among residents to achieve what now seems like a distant dream — a Gurgaon that is free of garbage littered on roadsides and on vacant plots. On …
The massive volume of garbage that toppled down at Ghazipur last week had cost the East Delhi Municipal Corporation up to Rs 1,800 per tonne to be put there — paid to private contractors as tipping fee. Every day, Rs 40.8 lakh is being spent to ferry and dump the …
The NGT also issued notice to the NHAI to show cause why it has not started lifting segregated waste despite specific directions from the tribunal. “Are people of Delhi supposed to die under a garbage dump,” asked the National Green Tribunal on Monday while pulling up the Delhi government and …
Durban - Tensions are mounting in Upper Highway communities after allegations of discrimination by EnviroServ’s employees and associates. Community activist Sandile Bele has accused the waste-management company of sowing divisions. He says a false picture has been painted to suggest the black community has a lesser understanding of the issues …
Food scraps. Okay, those aren't the first words that come to mind when you think about the environment. But 22 percent of the municipal solid waste dropped into landfills or incinerators in the U.S. is, in fact, food that could be put to better use through composting and soil enrichment. …
