Landfill

Half of all hazardous waste in Telangana ends up in landfills

This means as much as half of the trash generated by more than 2,500 hazardous-waste-generating industrial units in the State gets buried in landfills.

Publication Date:

13/05/2019

Source: New Indian Express (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Telangana, Landfill, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Waste Management, Hazardous Waste

Solid Waste

NGT directs Haryana chief secretary to submit report on Bandhwari landfill site

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Haryana chief secretary to submit an action taken report and take punitive action against the officers for failing to stop leachate from the Bandhwari l

Publication Date:

25/04/2019

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Haryana, Landfill, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Air Pollution, Solid Waste

Solid Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding solid waste management in Gurgaon, Haryana, 23/04/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Kamboj & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 23/04/2019 regarding solid waste management in Gurgaon, Haryana. The NGT expressed its displeasure at the "incapacity, incompetence and unwillingness of the Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon to perform its duty to handle solid waste in a scientific manner" and said the case has been pending for the last four years with the local authorities not performing their job.

Judgement Date:

23/04/2019

Tags:

Municipal Solid Waste, Gurgaon, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Municipal Corporations, Aravalli Range, Landfill, Waste Disposal, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Haryana

Solid Waste

Status report filed by the state of Madhya Pradesh in compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, 12/04/2019

Status report filed by the state of Madhya Pradesh, 12/04/2019 in compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.

Judgement Date:

12/04/2019

Tags:

Solid Waste, Waste Management, Madhya Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Hospital Waste, Hazardous Waste, Landfill

Solid Waste

Remove dump yard, get votes: Residents

1,500 families plan to back anyone promising clean air.

Publication Date:

10/04/2019

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Garbage, Landfill, Air Pollution, Solid Waste

Solid Waste

EDMC writes to DDA over landfill site

The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) wrote to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Tuesday, calling upon it to allot plots of land at Sonia Vihar and Ghonda Gujran to the corporation to

Publication Date:

14/03/2019

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Waste Disposal, Landfill, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), National Green Trbunal (NGT), Solid Waste

Solid Waste

National Green Tribunal tells East corporation to sort out row over landfill site with DDA

NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) to resolve disputes at the administrative level while disposing of a plea by the civic body seeking land t

Publication Date:

13/03/2019

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Landfill, Waste Disposal, Municipal Corporation, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Solid Waste

Solid Waste

Garbage disposal plan gets Nema nod

Nairobi Metropolitan Service Improvement Project (NaMSIP) has obtained an environmental licence to build Mitumbiri Sanitary Landfill in the county, the High Court heard.

Publication Date:

13/03/2019

Source: Standard Media (Kenya)

Tags:

Solid Waste, Garbage, Waste Management, High Court, Kenya, Landfill, World Bank, Africa

Solid Waste