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 …
A Composting unit over a drain may seem a little bit of a surprise for many. But, welcome to Borda in the jurisdiction of Margao Municipal Council where a composting unit is presently under construction on a water nullah. While work on the composting unit has raised many an eyebrows, …
CUTTACK: Solid waste management, one of the major civic problems of the millennium city, seems set for a huge boost with plans mooted for setting up a common facility for proper handling and treatment of the waste generated in the Twin City of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The facility would not …
JAIPUR: The Mahindra World City Jaipur is among the 16 founding projects of the Climate Positive Development Program under the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) that will support the development of large-scale urban projects that demonstrate cities can grow in ways that are
Pune The revenue department officials of the collectorate have been assessing five sites in the city, which can be used for solid waste management, and thus ease pressure off the present garbage dump at Urali Devachi. It may be recalled that Collector Chandrakant Dalvi has assured the villagers of Urali …
CHENNAI: Conservancy agency Neel Metal Fanalca will introduce a new system of source segregation of garbage from June 15 in four zones of the Chennai Corporation, according to its vice-president G.Thirugnanasambandam. He told a press conference here on Wednesday that newly purchased tricycles would be deployed in Ice House, Adyar, …
Responding to the show-cause notices issued by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), a number of industrialists on Wednesday clarified their position with regard to their failure to meet the safe environmental standards, a source in the agency said. According to the source, owners and executives holding responsible positions in …
Composting of leaf litter using the epigeic, exotic earthworm Eisenia fetida and the microbial kinetize (Quikompost) was carried out in order to compare their efficacies in waste management. The quantity of leaf litter composted and the biomass (earthworm/microbial) recovered after composting were increased with increasing the quantity of earthworm/microbial kinetizer.
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 …
PANJIM (HND): Wendell Rodricks, Chairman of Green Goa Works in a recently held press conference in Panjim, informed all villagers to commence weekly garbage collection programme and offered assistance of Green Goa Works for this programme and its execution. Till date Green Goa Works has cleaned four villages of Assagao, …
Bali once had a reputation as a tropical idyll. But the unfettered expansion of mass tourism on the island has created mountains of trash, overwhelming the ability of the Balinese, who traditionally wrapped and served food in palm leaves or other biodegradable plant material, to manage the mess. Plastic and …
AHMEDABAD: Godrej group's proposed 270-acre Ahmedabad township Godrej Garden City has made it to the 16 founding projects being taken up globally by Clinton Climate Initiative's Climate Positive Development Programme (CPDP) for clean and green urban development. The 16 projects, which aim at providing one million people living and working …
The authorisation for hazardous waste issued by the Board vide memo No.49/2S(HW)-1100/2001 dtd. 31.07.2007 is hereby extended for the period of up to 31.12.2009.
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: The long-pending problem of garbage clearance in Avadi municipality may be resolved soon with the detailed project report for integrated solid waste management to be submitted by this month-end. An official of Avadi Municipality said the preparation of project report by a private consultant has reached its …
MusavirrWani MM ISMANAGEM M ENT of biomed M ical wastes in and around the hospitals in Kashmir valley continues to add to the pollution levels thereby creating problems for both the patients in the hospitals and people at large. Officials at the helm of administration in these hospitals say that …
Pune Pimpri-chinchwad : Electricity from refuse Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade has called for generation of energy from garbage to resolve the long-pending dumping row; the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has embarked on a project on these lines. It hopes to start producing electricity from garbage in six months and …
Pune Though the district and civic authorities have promised to start segregating the dry and wet garbage in the next three months and that open dumping of garbage will be stopped in six months, the villagers of Urali Devachi and Phursungi on Monday deferred any decision regarding the Pune Municipal …
Around 50 inhabitants of Cavorim-Chandor and Guirdolim villages decided to take up the task of managing the garbage in their area by collaborating with the panchayats, church bodies and other organizations. At a workshop on Garbage Management organized by Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott, the villagers agreed that garbage in the village …
