Waste Management

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

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 …

Central nod for compost yard project

z. Manikandan Tenders to be floated for the Rs.44-crore project once the State gives administrative sanction GIVEN APPROVAL: The proposed compost yard in Venkatamangalam near Vandalur.

Workshop acquaints councillors on waste management

A half-day workshop on "Facilitating Door to Door Collection of Segregated Waste' was conducted at Hotel Woodlands, Margao on Thursday, to coincide with "World Environment Day' by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Western Regional Centre in Goa. The interactive workshop was designed to sensitize members of Margao Municipal Council …

Golden peacock' for hotel raintree

HOTEL Raintree, a popular 5-star hotel in Chennai, was recently awarded the prestigious Golden Peacock award at a glittering function. Akash Gupta, General Manager, The Raintree Hotel, received the award from Dr Ula Ullsten, former prime minister of Sweden, and currently the Chairman, World Council for Corporate Governance. Numerous dignitaries …

Top hotels set to go green

BEING green and being luxurious aren't mutually exclusive. Hotels, often accused of consuming a large amount of water and power, are going to pay more attention to environment, starting June 5, the World Environment Day . The Hotel Association of India (HAI) has asked its member hotels all over India …

Venture Capitalist Sees Waste As Feedstock For Energy

Don't use the word "waste" around venture capitalist Bill Green. The managing director with Silicon Valley-based VantagePoint Venture Partners, which has invested in two companies that use discarded materials to produce energy, prefers to think of the stuff we throw away as the next generation of energy feedstocks. VantagePoint's investments …

Garbage Is Dirty, But Is It A Clean Fuel?

About 45 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles, a machine the size of a small truck flattens tons of food scraps, paper towels and other household trash into the side of a growing 300-foot pile. To Waste Management which operates the landfill, this is more than just a mountain of …

Hurdles in way of four garbage disposal dumps for city cleared

The ambitious plan to decentralise the garbage disposal at four different places in the city received a boost with the forest department finally giving its approval to set up a garbage disposal plant in Punawale. This will enable the city to have four garbage disposal plants in different parts of …

20m recycling facility opens

Waste management company Greenstar has opened a new Euro 20m recycling facility in Bray, County Wicklow. The site will divert 135,000 tonnes from landfill every year and features an automated dry mix recyclables line to automatically separate aluminium and steel cans, paper, cardboard and plastics. Greenstar says the facility will …

Protocol soon on bio-waste disposal

Around 41,000 staff, including sanitary workers, have been trained for the purpose A STANDARD protocol on handling and safe disposal of biomedical waste will be adhered to in all the primary, secondary and tertiary care government hospitals in Tamil Nadu, said V K Subbu Raj, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, …

Cleaning up a sanctuary

Volunteers clean up the plastic mess left behind by unthinking tourists and visitors. The plastic is used by KK Plastic when laying roads with plastic in the bitumen mixture. Clean and Green has conducted some trips to Mutthathi for various corporates viz. Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Honeywell, for their volunteer …

Journalists to study garbage management

Guwahati Press Club has decided to study the problem of garbage management in Northeast with special reference to biomedical wastes. This was stated in a press release. This is a known fact that Guwahati is the crowded city with a population of nearly 20,00,000 and produces heaps of garbages everyday. …

Italy to face court over waste crisis

The European Commission is taking Italy to court for failing to effectively resolve the waste crisis that has plagued Naples and the surrounding region of Campania. Piles of rubbish were left uncollected in the streets in spring 2007 and again in the winter, leading some frustrated residents to set fire …

New committee for radioactive waste management

Defra has appointed a new radioactive waste management committee to cover the administration of waste across the UK and Northern Ireland. It will play a key role in the storage and disposal of radioactive waste, and be involved with the devolved administration in Northern Ireland on the implementation of geological …

Plan to make biomedical waste disposal safer

The programme, to begin in July, will involve tie-ups with private parties through shredding, deep burial listing priorities: Special Secretary, Health and Project Director of Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project P.W.C. Davidar explains biomedical waste management at a workshop in Coimbatore on Thursday. The State is set to begin more …

Report of the task force on environmentally sound management of mercury in fluorescent lamps

Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) in the Government of India constituted a Task Force, under the chairmanship of Sh. R H Khwaja, Additional Secretary in MoEF; in August, 2007 in view of the exigency for ensuring environmentally sound disposal of the used mercury-bearing lamps, particularly, with the exponential rise …

Improving municipal solid waste management in India

Solid waste management (SWM) is a matter of great concern in the urban areas of developing countries. This report covers very lucidly the present scenario of SWM in urban areas, the system deficiencies that exist, and the steps that need to be taken to correct SWM practices in compliance with …

Waste Management To Make Vehicle Fuel From Landfill Gas

Waste Management Inc said on Monday it would open the largest-ever facility to turn landfill gas into vehicle fuel, which will then be used in its own California collection trucks. The project will help the largest US trash hauler develop a source of low-carbon fuel, which is expected to be …

DMCH to come under waste management

Dhaka Medical College Hospital will be brought under the medical wastes management programme soon as part of the initiative to reduce the risk of health hazards. The DMCH nurses, ward boys and management staff are being imparted training and an orientation programme for the physicians will be held on completion …

Partnership can be an ideal vehicle for integrated waste management

The Excel group is changing with the times. The agro-chemicals leader has taken a lead in the country to develop biopesticides and manage solid waste by converting it into organic compost. The company CMD, Ashwin C Shroff, spoke to FE on the sidelines of the recently concluded Ficci Environment Conclave …

Rudd asked to repeal nuclear dump laws

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been urged to fulfil an election promise to repeal legislation paving the way for a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. The region was chosen by the Howard government for Australia's first waste facility because of its geological stability and remote terrain, far from …

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