Sanitary 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 …

No green nod for MCD dump

Ridge Board Says Clearance Never Given To Landfill At Bhatti Mines A member of the Ridge Management Board (RMB) on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has given no green clearance to Municipal Corporation of Delhi

Garbage treatment plant for Panjim

The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) can finally go ahead with setting up a state-of-the-art, no-nuisance integrated sanitary landfill and solid waste management site at Bainguinim, now that the Bombay High Court at Goa has dismissed the writ petitions that challenged the land acquisition at Bainguinim. The CCP …

Improved organic waste management: climate benefits through the 3Rs in developing Asian countries

This working paper is based on research carried out as commission work for the Ministry of Environment, Japan (MOEJ). It presents the analysis of climate benefits through the 3Rs focusing on organic waste management. It shows separate treatment hierarchies for different kinds of organic waste and recommendations for selection of …

Sanitary landfill sites lost in notification

MMRDA Delay Leads To Reservation For Metro Sukhada Tatke | TNN Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which had offered to create six sanitary landfills on the outskirts of the city for better waste management, failed to notify the state town planning department about two of the locations …

MCD wants Rs 50 cr for city beautification

The MCD has demanded the Delhi government to immediately release Rs 50 crores needed for beautification of the city for the Commonwealth Games 2010. The civic body plans to plant at leas 10 lakh trees and shrubs as well as spruce up its parks. Delhi mayor Kanwar Sain addressing reporters …

US experts will help build sanitary landfills

MUMBAI: If the MMRDA has its way, American landfill experts will soon visit Mumbai's dumping sites, prod the garbage, take samples of the slush, analyse it and then suggest ways to create new sanitary landfills in the region. MMRDA commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, who is back after a short visit to …

Noida finds landfill sites for solid waste disposal

In a bid to introduce Solid Waste Management System in the city, the Noida Authority has identified three locations for landfill sites. In a preliminary discussion with HUDCO, the Noida Authority has asked the technical consultants to provide a detailed project report on the latest technology and the viable options …

Green plan for Deonar dumping yard hits a hurdle

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday decided to defer for now the awarding of contracts for their ambitious plan to convert the Deonar dumping ground partially into a green belt and the rest into a sanitary landfill site. The Rs 4,560-crore proposal had been earlier put before the standing …

Deonar dumping ground projects hit a roadblock

The decision to close down the Deonar dumping ground was embroiled in an ugly debate, as members across party lines raised more than a 100 questions at the BMC

MCD to develop park at landfill site

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi launched "Van Mahotsav-2008' with the Leader of the MCD House Subhash Arya planting a sapling at a sanitary landfill site at Hastsal in West Delhi on Sunday. The total area of landfill is about 16 acre and while the civic body has developed a park …

E-waste: MMRDA to look for landfill site

Mumbai, June 29 With the city topping the list in generating the highest amount of electronic waste in the country, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) along with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) will soon be searching for a landfill site exclusive to treat and dump e-waste as …

Private firms waste disposal to be checked

The solid waste collection work carried out by private firms will now be monitored by officials to check their efficiency. The long tussle between the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and DWM, a private company which collects and dumps garbage from three zones of the city, will be sorted out …

Environmental pollution at a solid waste disposal site

Dhaka city produces tonnes of solid wastes everyday. Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) does not have any sanitary landfill for ultimate disposal of solid waste and for a long time it is a common practice of DCC to dipose off solid waste in open low lying areas without any segregation andf …

Implementing integrated solid waste management systems in India: moving towards the regional approach

There are many challenges regarding the safe disposal of municipal solid waste in India. Recent attempts have been concerned with finding ways to provide safe and sanitary disposal for solid waste so that our environment is no longer damaged by polluting, open dumps. This document is intended for decisionmakers who …

Out of site

Burnt or buried, garbage needs land Urban India's tryst with garbage is played out in many theatres. Surat Municipal Corporation in Gujarat has developed a sanitary landfill of 3.6 hectares on a tract of saline land near Khajod village, about 15 km west of the city. The landfill was ready …

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