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 …
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 …
The effects of vermicompost on the rate of growth of a variety of ornamentals, vegetables and medicinal plants have been assessed in the greenhouse and some field crops. These investigations have demonstrated consistently that vermicomposted organic wastes can have beneficial effects on plant growth independent of nutrient transformations and availability …
The general concept behind this dissertation work is municipal solid waste management. Solid wastes and its composites affect the environment in several ways. And the major problems to be considered are the generation of leachate from solid waste dumping sites, which affects the groundwater aquifers.
COIMBATORE: The Rs.96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Scheme of the Coimbatore Corporation is well on course, according to Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.
CHENNAI: A three-member team of senior engineers of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has said that a nearly 65-acre site at Kuthambakkam, near Poonamallee, where a Solid Waste Management Facility is proposed, is not a suitable location for establishing the facility. This is because rainwater which collects in this …
BARC to help deal with waste The Bombay high court on July 21 set up a four-member committee to look into the feasibility of decentralized waste management in Mumbai. The court passed the order on a petition by the Smoke Affected Residents Forum, formed by Chembur residents, affected by pollution …
The Punjab Environment Protection Department is establishing a climate change cell for offering technical advice to the stakeholders on climate change and carbon trading. EPD Director-General Shagufta Shahjehan told Dawn that since the country lagged far behind in carbon trading compared with other developing countries, the cell would help strengthen …
Dense population, high industrial growth, increasing pollutant loads and a lack of wastewater infrastructure in Dhaka have jointly created a serious threat to the city's sustainability. The industrial wastes caused severe degradation of the watersheds. 60% of the total pollution load comes from around 7,000 industrial units located within the …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Urban Development Minister A. K. Walia on Thursday said management of solid waste has become a huge problem for Delhi which produces about 8,500 metric tonnes of garbage daily. Speaking at an environmental workshop organised by the Delhi Government jointly along with Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the …
Diversified U.S. manufacturer SPX Corp and Indian engineering firm Thermax Ltd will jointly make air pollution control systems in India, in a venture that could bring in annual revenues of up to $100 million in five to 10 years. Shares of Thermax extended gains to as much as 3.1 percent …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is launching solid waste project in six talukas under the North Sindh Urban Services Corporation (NSUSC) with an estimated cost of Rs18 billion. The identified areas include Larkana, Shikarpur, Old Sukkur, Sukkur City, Rohri and Khairpur, said Larkana Ta luka Nazim Qurban Ali Abbasi on …
The Margao Municipal Council is bracing up to meet on August 31 to finalise the company to set up the 50 ton waste treatment plant at Sonsodo, but the Civic body is yet to appoint a technical consultant to evaluate the technical bids received from Fomento-IL&FS; combine and Hyderabad-based Ramky …
WASTE is a major problem for any city, and a city without a proper solid waste management system is a hazard to public health. Islamabad is one such city. The municipal dumping site in H-10 sector is not the only place that stinks in Islamabad. In every residential sub-sector in …
Pune The row over garbage disposal that had reached a crescendo three months ago has been buried, at least for the time being, with the focus shifting on swine flu that has claimed 20 lives in the city. The issue of segregation of garbage that had earlier taken centrestage remains …
New Delhi: Delhi is the highest municipal solid waste producer in the country followed by Mumbai, says a survey by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Delhi produces 6,800 tonnes of solid waste a day, while Mumbai generates 6,500 tonnes but in the absence of scientific …
Ashutosh Kumar Pipe manufacturing major Jindal Saw, the flagship company of the Rs 40,000-crore OP Jindal group, is tapping opportunities in water as well as waste management as future areas of growth. While Jindal Water Infrastructure Ltd boasts of an order book of Rs 650 crore, Jindal Urban Infrastructure is …
The United States, Europe, China and South Korea lead global "green" spending plans after committing about $500 billion to boost low-carbon technologies and protect the environment, under wider plans to boost the global economy. Green spend accounts for about 15 percent of total economic stimulus cash of $3 trillion, according …
