Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Flex banners made of poly-vinyl chloride are a serious environmental and health hazard. They can cause cancers and infertility. Municipal authorities and the Pollution Control Board have failed to prevent people from burning flex banners thrown in dustbins and at dump-yards. The city produces lakhs of flex banners as politicians …
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has on Friday commissioned a solid waste management facility at its campus. K. Ramasamy, Member, State Planning Commission, and Vice Chancellor, Karpagam University, commissioned the Rs. 80 lakh project in the presence of P. Murugesa Boopathi, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. The university will use …
Nodal officers to monitor progress of ‘Operation Sweep' The police will take stringent action against those who dispose of garbage in public places. As part of the ‘Operation Sweep' launched by Kerala Police on November 22, Inspector General of Police (Thrissur Range) B. Sandhya has directed City Police Commissioner P. …
Subsidy on biogas units will be raised: Muneer The government proposes to issue ordinances amending the Acts governing municipalities and panchayats to mandate stringent punishment to those who pollute the environment with garbage and other waste materials. Minister for Panchayats and Social Welfare M.K. Muneer stated this while inaugurating a …
The municipalities in Tiruchi, Perambalur and Ariyalur district will implement solid waste management programme and ensure environment and ecology-friendly programmes, by recycling degradable waste into organic manure. For effective implementation of the solid waste management programme, people should extend their cooperation by segregating waste materials into three categories, said A.Rengasamy, …
Private firm to implement solid waste management project To deal with problems cropping up from the Ramaiyanpatti garbage dumping yard on the outskirts of the town, the Corporation has proposed to execute a solid waste management programme by involving a private agency, which will convert the degradable refuse into bio …
Out of 197 flats, 111 have set up waste treatment systems Kochi is aiming to become the first city in the country to have waste processing units installed in all its apartment complexes. Of the 197 flats in the city, 111 have become self-reliant with waste management system and efforts …
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has asked all the local bodies of Madurai district to establish plastic waste collection centres and dispose them of at cement kiln of Madras Cements in Virudhunagar district. The District Environmental Engineer, A.R. Krishnaram, said that the cement factory had signed a memorandum of understanding …
The Lakshadweep administration on Saturday night started to dump 300 tonnes of damaged rice off Minicoy coast, without clearance from the Environment and Forest Ministry. The rice had been kept at the Co-operative Supply and Marketing Society at Minicoy Island since 2005 after it was found not good for consumption. …
It is an attempt to create clean, green DK dist, says CEO To achieve sustainability in cleanliness drive and to have a proper guidelines on waste management, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has issued 25 point waste management guidelines to all the 203 Gram Panchayats in the district. Under the Karnataka …
Meet on waste management calls for total ban on plastic Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) that makes manufacturers responsible for disposal of non-biodegradable waste generated by their products is among the recommendations made to the government by heads of urban local bodies at a workshop on ‘Decentralised waste management,' …
The Municipal Corporation will be holding meetings with hotel owners and grain market members for segregation of garbage at source in order to tackle the problems being faced in solid waste management in the city. The waste from the hotels and grain market is in large quantity and comprises of …
There is a strong possibility that Delhi's potable water has got contaminated with toxic dyes after the immersion of idols on Durga Puja last week and earlier during the Ganesh festival. "Many idols are immersed upstream in the Wazirabad area, from where Delhi gets its drinking water supply, and water …
Even 11 years after the Supreme Court laid down guidelines for management of municipal solid waste (MSW Rules 2000), the GHMC is yet to start scientific disposal of garbage. GHMC is now making extra efforts to adopt eco-friendly measures of waste disposal as the state capital (Greater Hyderabad) will host …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya is all to replace plastic bags with eco-friendly hand-woven bags called “Pla Iew” and “Sla” or leaves. The unrestraint use of plastic bags has created a havoc in the State creating all sorts of environment pollution. Food items are being packed in leaves called “Sla” as they are …
The district administration has chalked a novel scheme to make Pathanamthitta plastic-free from November 14, according to District Collector, P.Venugopal. An official meeting convened by the Collector here the other day has resolved to make necessary arrangements to supply eco-friendly carry bags made of cloth, priced at Rs 1 and …
After getting the Prime Minister’s Award on successful implementation of the ban on polythene carry bags and sustaining its polythene-free drive for more than two years, Himachal Pradesh on Sunday extended the ban to all disposable plastic cups, glasses, plates and drinking water bottles. The business and traders’ community appeared …
District panchayat president P.P. Shyamala Devi has underscored the need to enforce a blanket ban on sale of non-degradable plastic bags, which are generally used by people to dump garbage. Talking to The Hindu, she admitted that the use of plastic bags had assumed the proportion of a real “villain” …
Setting a model in decentralised waste treatment, the Thrikkakara Residents' Association Apex Council (TRAAC) has joined hands with the Thrikkakara municipality to install biopots to treat biodegradable waste in individual households. The project is two-pronged, targeting smooth waste treatment and propagating backyard vegetable cultivation in the municipal limits using the …
Health risk posed by piling household garb-age due to the GHMC strike has become a contentious issue, with some of the opinion that it will not lead to any epidemic, and others contending that it heightens the risk of transmission of diseases. Experts say that there is no cause for …
