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 …
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday asked the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to take steps to educate the public on the need to segregate sanitary napkins/diapers from other wastes. The court also asked the BBMP to come out with regulations to streamline the process of building demolition, disposal …
The purpose of this report is to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and assess, evaluate and recommend systems, processes, technological options, financial mechanisms and institutional arrangements to enhance resource recovery and promote Waste to Energy (W to E) …
Civic Body Has To Identify Sites, Inform Centre Bangalore: Here’s a fresh blow to the BBMP. The municipal body might soon have to face flak from the Centre. The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is all set to amend its existing rules to make it mandatory for all municipal …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a prosecution notice to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for violating solid waste rules and flouting environmental norms at its dumping grounds in the city. The notice was issued after a series of visits by MPCB officials to the Mulund and Deonar …
Landfills leachates are known to contain recalcitrant and/or non-biodegradable organic substances and biological processes are not efficient in these cases. A promising alternative to complete oxidation of biorecalcitrant leachate is the use of ultrasonic process as pre-treatment to convert initially biorecalcitrant compounds to more readily biodegradable intermediates. The objectives of …
This regulation shall be called “The Waste Prevention and Management Regulation, 2012”. This Regulation shall: establish procedures to implement the purpose of the Waste Prevention and Management Act, 2009; identify roles and areas of implementation of the Implementing Agencies for the purpose of establishing a sound waste management system including …
Fallen dry leaves littered all over the roads were a grave matter of concern for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) till now, but the agency has found an eco-friendly way of their disposal. As their shifting to Sanitary Landfill Sites (SLF) is a costly affair, the civic body has …
Operating agency to pull out of waste management project The city Corporation has more to worry than the people's agitation and legal tangle in the operation of the beleaguered Vilappilsala solid waste treatment plant. With the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) deciding to back out from the technical support …
Says she is unable to take decision on waste-disposal crisis The closure of the Vilappilsala solid-waste treatment plant is an act of ‘democratic violation' on the part of the Vilappil panchayat, Mayor K. Chandrika has said. She was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on source-level waste management organised by the …
This study examined the present status of waste management in India, its effects on public health and the environment, and the prospects of introducing improved means of disposing municipal solid waste (MSW) in India. The systems and techniques discussed are informal and formal recycling, aerobic composting and mechanical biological treatment, …
There is a strong possibility that Delhi's potable water has got contaminated with toxic dyes after the immersion of idols on Durga Puja last week and earlier during the Ganesh festival. "Many idols are immersed upstream in the Wazirabad area, from where Delhi gets its drinking water supply, and water …
NOIDA: With garbage strewn on the roads, overflowing dhalaos (garbage dumps) and indiscriminate digging across the city becoming a common sight, residents in Noida are a worried lot, especially with the Met department announcing more rain in the next few days. However, the Noida Authority claims it is now reassessing …
KOLKATA, 16 JUNE: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has got permission from the Pollution Control Board for sanitary land filling in the Ramsar area, member, mayor-in-council (Solid Waste Management), Mr Debabrata Majumder, said today. Mr Majumder said around 52 hectare has been earmarked for setting up the second Dhapa dumping ground …
MUMBAI: After earning a handsome advance on the delivery of carbon credits from 'scientifically' closing down the Gorai dump yard, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hoped to pocket a three times bigger amount once the curtains went down on Deonar, the city's oldest waste site. But India's overnight shift in …
The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of leachate recirculation on stabilisation of municipal solid wastes. The study was carried out by using two lab scale landfill bioreactors containing approximately 10 kg of waste each, in order to follow waste degradation over 16 weeks of time period. …
RELIGIOUS rituals may have to make some compromises for the sake of environment. Ahead of Ganapati Visarjan and Durga Puja, the environment ministry has put in place guidelines for idol immersion. Concerned about the increase in pollution of water bodies at the end of the festival, the ministry has suggested …
New Delhi: With Commonwealth Games a litle more than two months away, when all efforts are on to project Delhi as the face of a resurgent India, the 30-metre-high garbage dump at Ghazipur growing every day in the absence of an alternative sanitary landfill (SLF) site, is making the city …
The newly elected Mayor has expressed apprehension about the three landfill sites of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) as they are already full beyond their capacity. The Mayor, P.R. Sawhney, said the corporation was facing space crunch and did not have place for disposing garbage.
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.
