Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an environmental catastrophe, new research reveals.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Kamboj & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 07/04/2021. The issue for consideration is the remedial action, as per statutory rules, for the legacy waste dumped at Bandhwari landfill site, near Gurgaon.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Poonam Yadav Vs M.C. Farrukhnagar & Others dated 07/04/2021. Grievance in this application is against setting up of a landfill site on grazing land, without any Environmental Clearance (EC), at Farrukhnagar, district Gurugram, Haryana, in violation of the siting criteria.

Report of the Telangana State Pollution Control Board, 03/04/2021 regarding directions to Municipal Commissioners of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) on implementation of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.

Affidavit cum compliance report by the government of Rajasthan in compliance to the National Green Tribunal order July 22, 2020 in the matter of Resident of village Adampur, PO Masodi Khera, Dholpur district Vs State of Rajasthan.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anand Uttarkar Vs The Municipal Corporation of the City of Pune & Others dated 23/03/2021.

The recent study conducted by UNDP Accelerator Lab Nepal in 2020 shows that, urban areas altogether generate above 350 tons of plastic waste every day, threatening the natural ecosystem and human health.

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management, particularly final disposal as open dumps has become a global issue. Worldwide, dumpsites are the third largest anthropogenic source of methane, accounting for 11 percent of estimated global methane emissions or 881 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re: News item published in "The Times of India" Authored by Jasjeev Gandhiok & Paras Singh Titled "Below mountains of trash lie poison lakes"  dated 29/01/2021.

Updated report of Oversight Committee in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order passed in Original Application No. 116/2014 in the matter of Meera Shukla Vs Municipal Corporation, Gorakhpur & Others - regarding remedial action for contamination of water bodies and groundwater specially Ramgarh lake, Ami river, Rapti river and Rohani river in and around district Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

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