Rs. 100-crore project to be completed by mid-2014; will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram

Preliminary civil works for a waste-to-energy power plant began at Venkatamangalam village on Monday. The non-incineration facility will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram municipalities. A bhoomi pooja was performed at the 50-acre site at Venkatamangalam, located around 15 kilometres from Tambaram and coming under Kattankulathur panchayat union, Kancheepuram district.

PANJIM: The Goa Government has tabled the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Bill, 2013 to levy cess till 2 per cent of the sale value on products and substances causing pollution.

The bill defines these products as: “those which upon their handling, consumption, utilization, combustion, or movement or transportation causes pollution of the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and other environmental resources and causes emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases or discharge other types of effluents...”

Environment activist SubhasDatta has moved the National Green Tribunal on pollution at Puri, eastern India's biggest pilgrimage and tourist site.

Progress on solid waste management in Sri Lanka is not satisfactory and measures are needed for an effective management of solid waste, the Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Wim

Three days after the high-court appointed pollution control board (PCB) team filed a report citing serious omissions on the part of city corporation in terms of waste management at Vilappilsala fac

It was announced in Corporation Budget

The Coimbatore Corporation Council on Monday accorded approval for the waste-to-energy project. At the urgent meeting, the Council decided to implement the project, which will use 500 metric tonnes waste a day to generate power. The Council approving of the project comes days after Finance and Taxation Committee Chairperson R. Prabhakaran made an announcement in this regard in the Corporation Budget for 2013-14.

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today dedicated to the people an ambitious project for solid waste management under the department of Urban Development (UD) at Chimpu, which he had initiated as the Urban Development Minister during 2006.

“Personally, this is a dream come true for me. Now the smoking garbage dumps welcoming visitors to the State capital will be a thing of the past,” Tuki said after inaugurating the project in presence of UD Minister Rajesh Tacho, Industries Minister Tapang Taloh, UD Parliamentary Secretary Padi Richo besides officials of the department, official sources informed.

Expert Committee Never Suggested Gasification Plant For Municipal Waste Treatment

Thiruvananthapuram: The government awarded the contract to set up modular wastetreatment plant at Chalai at a cost of Rs 60 crores to Loro Enviropower by overruling the recommendations of the expert committee headed by RVG Menon Two weeks after TOI pointed out a list of violations in the tender process and cited the dubious history of the company that won the project, Menon told TOI that the project was tweaked.

Corporation Commissioner V.P.Thandapani has appealed to traders and other commercial establishments in the city to extend their full cooperation to the civic body in its efforts to improve solid waste management in the city.

The Corporation has planned to evolve a system of collecting garbage from commercial establishments to a specified time-table. Traders should segregate degradable and non-degradable wastes and hand them over to the Corporation workers properly.