There is not even a single tourist place in India that has not either been vandalised or polluted by people.

With a one-year deadline set by NGT in March to ensure full compliance, civic bodies are running against time to streamline waste segregation and disposal in the ‘model wards’.

Uttarkhand's Tourism Department will launch a cleanliness drive on the World Environment Day on June 5 to spread a message among people about building a clean environment.

Panaji: Two years after former CM Manohar Parrikar laid out a roadmap to make Goa garbage-free by 2020, his successor Pramod Sawant pushed that target back by at least four years.

Madurai: Nearly 40 tonnes of garbage was removed from the Vaigai river in a mass cleaning programme organized by the Madurai Corporation between Kamarajar Bridge near Bethaniyapuram and Kuruvikkara

“Why do we need to repeatedly remind the world that we are not a garbage dump? Illegal waste dumping in developing countries should be stopped at all costs.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Confederation of Trans Hindan RWA’s Ghaziabad Vs U. P. State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 28/05/2019 regarding inaction of the Municipal Corporation Ghaziabad in complying with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, in not collecting garbage from Indirapuram, Vasundhara and Vaishali which is being dumped at Shakti Khand, adversely affecting the air quality. Report received by the Tribunal from the State PCB acknowledges that garbage was being dumped in Shakti Khand and that there was no segregation of garbage.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Arun Kumar Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi dated 24/05/2019 regarding violation of norms by plastic industries making shoe soles and other plastic goods in Narela and Bawana in Delhi. Report submitted by a committee found open dumping of waste and open burning of plastic waste, drains fully chocked by waste in absence of collection of waste generated by industries and untreated waste water from industries being directly discharged into the drains in Narela as well as Bawana industrial areas.

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his government to hire a private shipping company to send 69 containers of garbage back to Canada and leave them within its territorial waters if i

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ram Kumar Panwar & Others Vs Government of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 17/05/2019 regarding illegal dumping of garbage at Neb Sarai, New Delhi in violation of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.

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