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 …
The Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) will draft bylaws for enforcing Greenline service on all restaurants and hotels in the city. Under this service, JMC's vehicles will collect garbage and wastes from eateries and transport it to compost plant at Sevapaura. Launching the service, city mayor Jyoti Khandelwal talked about benefits …
In the age of recycling, ragpickers perform a socially highly useful function. But the middle class simply wants them banished Russel Street, off Park Street, is among the poshest addresses anyone in Kolkata can think of. Queen
NEW DELHI: Used lead batteries are not being collected in sufficient quantity to protect public health and the environment from lead hazards according to a recent report
On world Ozone Day, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said this was an “important occasion to re-dedicate ourselves to maintain the balance of nature”. Stating that modernisation should not lead to destruction but “must bring addition to the quality of life”, she said this would help in “fulfilling our commitment towards …
Turkey, one of the five major ship recycling nations in the world, has signed the United Nations-backed treaty promoting the environmentally friendly recycling of ships. The Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, adopted in May 2009, is aimed at ensuring that ships, when …
KOCHI: The project for converting biowaste into manure using bacterial microbes will be launched at the Karikkamury Residents Association area on Wednesday. The project is being launched by the Kochi Nagara Paura Samithy in association with the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI). "As the traditional method …
Carrying or selling plastic bags may soon invite trouble for both customers and shopkeepers as the administration has decided to impose a blanket ban on its use. From the coming month, the administration would penalise those violating rules. In February, the state government had imposed a blanket ban on the …
London: A team of Dutch researchers are planning to make an island the size of Hawaii entirely from 44 million kilogram of plastic waste. Recycled island, which is part of an environmental vision for the future, will be made from plastic waste currently bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean. Solar …
ITANAGAR, May 30: Environ conducted a day long workshop with waste pickers in a dump house near General Hospital here and demonstrated different uses of non-biodegradable and recyclable solid waste to mobilize their day to day activity in more efficient manner to keep clean the city. Waste pickers as well …
The Compost Will Be Used For Gardening Sharad Vyas | TNN Mumbai: Agricultural markets of Navi Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra that produce tonnes of rubbish daily, are looking to tackle their waste problems at source rather than depend on local municipal bodies. Nearly 33 agriculture market produce committee …
The State government will soon start the process of setting up trade zones to conduct the business of buying, selling and processing of recyclable waste including scrap.
Keya Sarkar / New Delhi May 1, 2010, 0:24 IST Even before reduce, reuse and recycle became the environmental watchwords, Birbhum, the district that Santiniketan falls under, had a tradition of recycled textiles. While Birbhum shares with many other areas of both West Bengal and Bangladesh the tradition of the
LUCKNOW: The rampant use of plastic, especially the banned ones, in the form of carry bags, has once again waken up the department of urban development to sit up and take notice. The department has asked the local bodies to carry out special drives every first week of a month …
Solid waste management is a problem related to common man. Solid waste is that substance which we throw away considering it useless. By selecting this waste and recycling it and by its management we can participate in stopping climatic change. This was stated by Abhilasha Dubey in the seminar organised …
Thyagraj Stadium, one of the most important competition venues of Commonwealth Games 2010, is ready for the inauguration next month, with the latest technologies and features used for the first time in India, particularly sports stadium. The indoor sports complex, which is being termed as
