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 three dyeing factories in Narayanganj Tk 70 lakh and ordered to stop production and set up effluent treatment plant (ETP) by June. During a drive at Fatullah, the DoE team found gross violation of government instructions for setting up ETP, and the factories …
The HP High Court has expressed displeasure over the delayed approach of the state government in the setting up of common effluent treatment, sewage treatment and municipal waste plants in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial area and non-compliance of the order of the High Court and observed that the court may take …
Manmohan SinghPrime Minister Manmohan Singh has said a lasting solution would be found for the Tirupur knitwear industry, in trouble due to a court-ordered closure of all dyeing units for polluting the water sources in the region. The industry has said the only permanent solution to solve the dye effluent …
Environment and Wildlife minister meets Dikshit, Hooda to discuss ways to keep river healthy Excessive algae in the Yamuna brought Union Minister for Environment and Wildlife Jairam Ramesh
Duo told to ensure untreated effluents are not released into river Delhi and Haryana on Sunday agreed to keep their end of the bargain by deciding to take remedial measures for curtailing pollution in the Yamuna. At a meeting presided over by Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh, Chief …
A team from IIT-Madras studied its functioning before issuing a prima facie report. Garments manufactured using the new evaporator will help entrepreneurs fetch value-addition Tirupur: There is some heartening news for the problem-plagued dyeing industry here as full-fledged trial run of the eco-green evaporator conceived by NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear …
After analyzing the Environmental Status of Industrial Clusters of the country, Central Pollution Control Board in consultation with the Ministry of Environment & Forests has identified 88 critically polluted industrial clusters, of which Najafgarh Drain Basin including Wazirpur, Naraina, Anand Parbat and Okhla industrial areas is one of them in …
THE Madras High Court has ordered closure of more than 700 bleaching and dyeing units, and effluent treatment plants in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. On January 28, the court also asked the state government to disconnect electricity supply to the units in the hosiery town that failed to comply with …
Nitta Gelatin India Limited (NGIL) at Kathikudam, near here, has refuted the charge that the untreated effluents released by the company have been polluting the Chalakudy River. Treatment plant Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, NGIL managing director G. Susheelan said that the company's effluent treatment plant had always …
Treatment of effluents generated in the dyeing process has always been a problem that the knitwear industry in Tirupur had failed to tackle. Providing a ray of hope to the industrial fraternity, the NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear Fashion here, promoted by Tirupur Exporters Association, has come out with an
The treatment techniques used to treating wastewater are based on the knowledge and design application of the treatment process required. This varies depending on the kind of wastewater being treated.
The Punjab Government has announced that work on the cleaning of river waters in the state will be completed by November 30. At a review meeting held here today, the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, DS Guru, sought an assurance from various departments to make the Sutlej and the …
Bangalore is in a better position compared to other parts of the State when it comes to implementation of an action plan on bio-medical waste management. The action plan was submitted by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to the Lok Adalat a couple of months ago. The action …
People in Erode town have expressed serious concern over the indiscriminate discharge of untreated effluents from the textile processing and tannery units into the Pichakkaran Pallam Odai, a major water carrying canal in the town. Thousands of gallons of untreated effluents that are being let into the canal, finally flow …
Despite closure notices several industrial units are operating in Mahad tehsil of Raigad district, polluting a river and wells. As a result fishing and farming in the region have been badly affected. 5,000 fisher families have lost their means of living due to pollution in the Savitri river.
DESPITE closure notices several industrial units are operating in Mahad tehsil of Raigad district, polluting a river and wells. As a result fishing and farming in the region have been badly affected. On November 30, Mahad subregional office of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) issued notices to six industrial …
Hoshiarpur: Contrary to the claims of the state government for preventing discharge of municipal and industrial wastes into the two main rivers of the Doaba belt, the situation has not shown any improvement. Though the government has taken up a scheme under the National River Conservation Project (NRCP), phase II, …
R. Vimal Kumar Tirupur: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on Wednesday ordered closure of 87 dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur cluster for not ensuring zero liquid discharge (ZLD) during the dyeing process as directed by the Supreme Court. While 64 dyeing and three bleaching units were attached to …
TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into …
In the textile knitwear manufacturing city of Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, the ZLD project in their CETPs was propelled by a judicial directive and launched with great expectations way back in 2005. After 5 years, there is no such thing as a ZLD happening even though the CETPs have been commissioned …
