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 …
Phoolnagar police have registered a case against five officials of a food company on the application of a fish farmer who has alleged that the company's poisonous chemical waste has killed thousands of fish in his farm in Gagar village. Rafhan Foods was dumping its chemical waste at an open …
Majithia heads panel, to report in 7 days As discharge of industrial waste into streams water of which is used for drinking has become a burning issue in the state, Punjab government has set up a committee in this regard. Bikram Singh Majithia minister for science, technology and environment will …
Nature knows better how to keep the water sources clean and nourishing. Our traditions, also could maintain their water sources for the past 10,000 years. Water quality problems and water scarcity- both are due to pollution of air, caused by increase in the use of fossil fuels. This produces rain …
Govrnor sets March 09 deadline for Srinagar sewerage project SRINAGAR, July 21: Governor, N N Vohra, today set a deadline of March 2009 for completion of the mega Drainage and Sewerage Project for the Srinagar City and called for establishing a Task Force to ensure round the clock work on …
This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to the primary skin irritation, if any, of six samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (nor Naptho tar), Reactor residues, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant site at …
Untreated toxic waste released from dying and printing units of a textile mill and a yarn dying mill in Tangail Sadar upazila is polluting Louhajang River. The pollution that goes on unabated for several years, now threatens fish, crops and greenery in the area, locals said. The local administration cannot …
The relocation site of the world-famous Tsukiji Fish Market has been contaminated with far more toxic chemical materials than previously thought and around 2 meters of surface soil will probably have to be replaced, an advisory panel to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Monday. The metropolitan government is planning to …
European Union lawmakers backed a watered-down law on "green crime" on Monday that would make dumping toxic waste or illegally transporting hazardous materials a criminal offence throughout the bloc. The draft law obliges the EU's 27 member states to treat and punish as criminal acts a list of nine offences …
The Bhopal Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Department is talking to the Indian Army and the Delhi-based National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) to help remove the toxic waste lying in the premises of the closed Union Carbide for the last 24 years. Last month, the department requested the Indian Army …
Some of the environmentalists based in the United States have kicked up a controversy over yet another asbestos-laden ship heading for the Alang ship-breaking yard in the Saurashtra coast of Gujarat for dismantling. The controversy over S.S. Oceanic has been raised in view of the nationwide protest the Alang shipyard …
The parents of the toxic industrial waste's victims have moved the Sindh High Court to annul a district and sessions' court order on March 26 that acquitted a factory owner and others in a case pertaining to dumping of highly toxic industrial waste in an open area in Site Town, …
Ivory Coast Arrests Suspect In Toxic Waste Case IVORY COAST: April 7, 2008 ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast has arrested the head of the local company which unloaded and dumped toxic waste in Abidjan nearly two years ago, leading to the deaths of 16 people, a judge familiar with the case …
The problems relating to mounting solid waste are fast acquiring gigantic proportions in the developing countries of Asia. Most of the countries, nevertheless, continue to primarily focus on achieving high economic growth and pay scant attention to waste management. This article takes a detailed look at the inadequacies of waste …
Bangalore figures prominently in the world map for its contribution in Information Technology (IT). This phenomental growth over the past decade, has given rise to the generation of lot of electronic waste. E-waste thus generated contains many recoverable metals and non metals along with hazardous wastes and their improper disposal …
Aqueous wastes containing thiocyanate (SCN) are frequently encountered from variety of industrial processes. If improperly managed, these wastes can cause reversible or irreversible impact on the soil and water environment. In the process of developing a microbial technology for the SCN removal from aqueous waste, heterotrophic bacterial consortium's capable of …
about 50 heads of livestock, mostly cattle, died in the last week of January after drinking water from a stream in the Ghaggar Union Council of Bin Qasim township on the outskirts of Karachi in Pakistan. Effluents from the nearby army-owned Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited has polluted the water. …
In the summer of 2007, Shell officials at the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago were in a spot of bother. Business was fine for the oil company and environmentalists and other usual gadflies weren't making much noise. But the Shell factory in Barracones Bay was confronted with an awkward …
The us Environmental Protection Agency has teamed up with the country's leading cell phone manufacturers, service providers and retailers to motivate users to recycle their old cell phones and other handheld devices. The move is part of the agency's year-long campaign: Plug-In to eCycling. Launched on January 8, the campaign …
Seventy kilometres from Bangalore, a lorry veered off the main road and headed in an unusual direction: towards groundnut fields in Yadagere village of Karnataka's Tumkur district. It stopped at an unsown field in the middle of nowhere. Torches were flashing in the dark. A flurry of activities followed, disturbing …
http://ewasteguide.info/ Did you know that the annual amount of waste generated from end-of-life electrical and electronic products is estimated to be a few million tonnes? And many predict that this will double in the coming decades? The data is alarming. At this site under review you can find much more …
