Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The biodegradable polymers could be an alternative to the conventional plastic materials. These polymers being biodegradable can be disposed in safe and ecologically sound manner, through disposal processes (waste management) like composting, soil application, and biological wastewater treatment. Considering the necessity to assess the degradation pattern of these polymers, Central …
This paper describes the design, construction and management of the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED), a high density residential development that accommodates a mix of income groups and combines homes and workspaces. It dramatically reduces carbon dioxide emissions per person from the homes and encourages and supports other aspects of …
TWO months ago, a fleet of hydraulic trucks of a private company started collecting garbage from homes in many areas of Nagpur. The trucks transport the garbage directly to the landfill site managed by another private company. This privatization of garbage collection has alarmed some 5,000 ragpickers who earn their …
A new generation, of responsible entrepreneurs, that shares the common passion and dream of making our earth a carbon free and a safer place to live in, is taking the lead today. They are setting examples for others to follow by starting up their own ventures in the clean technology …
With a federal plan to handle nuclear waste in deadlocked disarray, an advisory panel that has spent 20 years studying a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain turned Wednesday to discussing ways of reusing the fuel instead. But the meeting of the panel, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, made evident …
NAGERCOIL: The state-of-art method must be followed while implementing decentralized solid waste management in different parts of the district in order to enhance the social and technical capacity, said the Collector Rajendra Ratinoo. Inaugurating the district level workshop on decentralized solid waste management here on Wednesday the Collector said that …
Joseph Vackayil Chennai: The green sector is set to bring about an employment revolution, as information technology did two decades ago. The new avenue of employment, termed
Industrial biotechnology has the potential to save the planet up to 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per year and support building a sustainable future, a new WWF report found. Industrial biotechnology applications are already widely used in everyday life. They help reduce the amount of time needed …
Chairman of the Chief Minister's Task Force on Polio and Communicable Diseases Control, Dr Asad Ashraf, has directed the Director General Health and the EDO Health Lahore to assign duties to the students and officials of medical colleges, attached with different towns of Lahore, in the forthcoming anti-polio campaign for …
The United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) in his message to commemorate the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, on Wednesday, has urged for implementation of agreed environmental goals, targets and objectives for protection of the "Earth's Protective Shield." "Without action on climate change, the world faces profound …
These rules may be called the Plastics (Manufacture, Usage and Waste Management) Rules, 2009. They shall come in to force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka yesterday said, he will not withhold the Waste Management Project, that was started in Dompe by his ministry, because of unfair demonstrations and picketing campaigns staged against it by a few groups. Ranawaka said, "The project will cause no environmental pollution to the …
The Margao Municipal Council on Monday got a new Chief Officer, Prassana Acharya who has vowed to streamline and simplify the office procedure to make it people friendly and has proposed waste segregation at source to tackle the garbage problem. Acharya also disclosed plans to create a website of the …
L. Renganathan Being implemented in 12 wards of Kulithalai Municipality GOOD EFFORT: Students on an exposure visit to the compost yard of Kulithalai Municipality that is implementing the solid waste management programme. KULITHALAI: Kulithalai Municipality in Karur district has launched an integrated community based decentralised solid waste management programme to …
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of World Bank, has pledged assistance to Waste Management Corporation (WMC) to eliminate waste collected across the country. IFC has expressed that it will provide assistance to Waste Management Corporation to establish a waste management system in the country and increase public awareness on …
