Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a dyeing factory Tk 21 lakh for running the factory by violating DoE orders. The dyeing factory, Pacific Fiber Corporation, was also asked to stop its operation, says a DoE release. The factory owner in a written statement informed the DoE on January …
JODHPUR: Union Textile and Commerce & Industry minister Anand Sharma on Saturday, while expressing concern over the closed textile units, announced to set up a high level committee to look into the damages caused by the textile industry to the local environment and ecology at Jodhpur, Barmer and Pali. Headed …
Ahmedabad: Central effluent treatment plants are posing a serious threat to the health of human beings in the state. In hazardous and polluted clusters of Gujarat, the central effluent treatment plants (CETP) are expected to treat industrial sludge to prevent its harmful effect on human and other forms of lives. …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined three paper mills in Chittagong and six brick kilns in Rangpur, Feni and Chittagong a total of Tk 2,625,000 for environmental pollution. Jafar Alam, director of DoE Chittagong Office, fined Hakkani Pulp and Paper Mills Limited Tk 4.50 lakh, Ambeea Pulp and Paper …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has fined 59 industrial units for unlawfully storing and disposing large quantities of hazardous waste on their premises. The industries have been asked by MPCB to pay the fine (amount not specified) and have been directed to send the hazardous waste to common treatment …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has been implementing a number of schemes for industrial as well as environmental pollution abatement under which financial assistance is provided to the State implementing agencies. These schemes are on-going in nature and include the following Centrally Sponsored/Central Sector Schemes: National River Conservation …
The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has been implementing a centrally sponsored scheme for CETPs since 1991. In the light of the operational deficiencies in the earlier scheme, the development of pollution control technologies over the year and also the financial constraints on the part of SSI proponents and …
The Department of Environment (DoE) fined the owners of two dyeing factories Tk 28.5 lakh in Narayanganj yesterday on charge of polluting the Shitalakkha river by dumping chemical mixed waste. Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, the DoE director (enforcement), has also directed the authorities concerned to shut down the factories-- National Textile …
The Department of Environment (DoE) is going to take action against Meghna Group of Industries on charge of polluting the river Meghna, said a DoE release yesterday. The leading conglomerate was accused of polluting the river by releasing untreated chemical waste from an oil refinery. A DoE enforcement team found …
Non allocation of funds and legal complexities have either stalled or slowed down two projects for saving the Buriganga River from land grabbers or restoring stretches of it through dredging, officials said. They said that it took the government seven years to select a contractor for setting up a plant …
With some Central industries discharging their effluents into major rivers of the State, the Odisha Government has asked them to develop their wastewater treatment facilities. This was stated by Forest and Environment Minister, Mr Debi Prasad Mishra, while replying a question in the Assembly. “The State Pollution Control Board has …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a textile dyeing industry Tk 65 lakh and sealed off it for releasing untreated chemical and waste into the river Shitalakkha at Shiddhirganj in Narayanganj. A DoE team found that Shah Dyeing and Finishing Mills Ltd was releasing untreated liquid waste into the …
But discharge of hazardous waste continues in it Patiala: Contrary to the recent "all is well" report prepared by the high level committee constituted to monitor the pollution level in the Buddha Nullah, Ludhiana, many industrial units are still discharging hazardous waste into the nullah. Sources in the Punjab Pollution …
Ambur, Vaniyambadi and Pernambut areas are reportedly bearing the brunt Farmers participating in a monthly grievance day meeting at the Collectorate here on Friday complained of pollution of groundwater in Ambur, Vaniyambadi and Pernambut areas on account of the discharge of treated and untreated tannery effluents with high TDS (total …
Most of the commercial banks continue to show lack of interest in disbursing loans from a Tk 200-crore refinancing scheme of the Bangladesh Bank launched in 2009 for renewable energy and clean water projects. BB officials said that banks had borrowed only Tk 50 crore from the central bank’s revolving …
Banks have gradually increased investments in clean and renewable-energy technology, which was beyond conventional banking a few years ago. Total investments in the alternative energy sector stood at Tk 71 crore till November 2011, according to Bangladesh Bank (BB) data. Of the investment, BB refinanced Tk 25 crore from its …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Jamuna Denim, a sister concern of Jamuna Group, Tk 52.6 lakh for dumping untreated toxic wastes into the river Turag. A DoE team paid a surprise visit to the dyeing factory at Konabari of Gazipur last Tuesday and found the factory discharging untreated …
A year after the Madras High Court directed the closure of over 720 dyeing units in Tirupur, the dyers have submitted fresh proposals with promise of improved technology to achieve zero liquid discharge to be functional again. “The closed dyeing units have submitted proposals for achieving zero discharge with new …
They are setting up sewage and effluent treatment plants Many industrial estates in the city are setting up sewage and effluent treatment plants in an effort to promote eco-friendly practices and reduce burden on civic agencies. The industrial estate in Ambattur is the forerunner among the estates with two sewage …
The city-based Sustainable Technologies & Environmental Projects (STEPS) plans to set up a plant to convert plastic waste into light diesel, calorific value combustible gas and carbon pellets. The company has also succeeded in generating diesel from algae, for which it won the Lockheed Martin Innovations Award three times. “We …
