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 …
This research paper examines the effects of solid waste on the quality of underground water in Benin metropolis, Nigeria. The study was bore out of the unregulated manner in which both domestic and industrial wastes are deposited in the streets, river courses, buried, burnt and discarded in refuse heaps. Solid …
The residence of Baghuwar have reason to smile. This little village in central Madhya Pradesh is proud of its hygiene and sanitation. Every family has access to a pucca indoor, water-economical toilet. '100 per cent open-air toilet free village' proclaims a sign at the panchayat ghar. The 100 per cent …
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to utilise tons of domestic garbage and carcass of animals in a different way. The LMC in place of dumping garbage and carcass on the outskirts of the city will now use it for production of cooking gas. The task has been assigned …
They also learn basics of solid waste management and use of sewage treated with enzymes for gardening TEACHING: Indra Kumar of Home Exnora explains terrace top farming to a group of students at his house in Shankar Nagar, Pammal on Wednesday. TAMBARAM: Taking a break from their routine , a …
Co plans to increase production of recycled paper. With a production capacity of over 160,000 tonnes of recycled paperboards a year, the mills of ITC Ltd at Kovai and Bhadrachalam have helped the company attain the distinction of being negative solid waste, said Mr R. Srinivasan, Member-Corporate Management Committee.
From the rainforests of Africa to the mountain-top coal mines of West Virginia, six campaigners who have fought governments and industry to protect the planet won prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes on Sunday. The awards, often referred to as the Nobel Prizes of the environmental world, went to activists in six …
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh today cleared a proposal to start a pilot project adopting at least 11 road projects in the state, where waste plastic bags will be used in the construction of roads. The state
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that the judicial process cannot be used for fixing the lifespan for landfill sites in Haryana. Acting on a public interest litigation, the Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Hemant Gupta has asserted: So long as the …
By Poornima Nataraj, Bangalore, DH News Service: Children in Malleswaram are using their summer vacation to spread awareness on garbage management in their neighbourhood. These children in the age groups of 6 to 16 have been making door to door visits educating their neighbours about how segregated garbage can be …
Dalhousie: Notwithstanding the fact that the Municipal Council of Dalhousie is yet to collect more than Rs 50 lakh as taxes, including water and sanitation tax, from local residents, a
New Delhi: With a ban on plastic bags enforced in the Capital, the largest ever project to utilise plastic is underway. The Public Works Department, with the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), is working on a project to lay roads made from a plastic-inclusive hot mix. And helping them in …
Ragpicking, one would assume, is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Consider this: for 80 per cent of the 630 paper …
Environmental audit was conducted in a small scale electroplating industry located at Ambattur in Chennai. The unit is engaged in hard chrome plating on various automobile components.
Outstanding advances have been made in the technologies of using cemented fill throughout the world. The choice of a cemented fill system, its mix composition and their proportion depends on the stope geometry, strength requirement, strata condition, working condition and the economy of the mining method as a whole. The …
Ocean currents work magic when they help ships navigate from one place to the other or bring rain. However, together with the Horse latitudes, they also have created a new continent as big as Africa and still expanding, which may never support life because it is plain garbage, dubbed the …
