If everything goes as planned, Nepal will have its largest landfill site in three years.

Rome : The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday.

The owners of a planned landfill site for hazardous material could change their plan to store safer material.

The draft Municipal Waste Rules just placed in the public domain for feedback, have identified a specific criteria for site selection ~that the landfill site has to be large enough to last for at l

Thousands of trees might have faced the infrastructural axe in the City, reducing afforestation to a mere eco-slogan.

In an emergency meeting on Saturday at the Lord Vinayaka temple in Bondbag-Bethora, villagers unanimously resolved to oppose the waste treatment plant proposed by the state government at the Ponda

The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs has published national norms and standards for the assessment of waste for landfill disposal under section 7(1)(c) of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act 59 of 2008.

This Notice of the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, made under section 7 of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008, provides norms and standards which determine the requirements for the disposal of waste to landfill as contemplated in regulation 8(1) of the Waste Classification and Management Regulations 2013.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the authorities of all the states to explore possibility of introducing use of bio-degradable plastic bags instead of polythene bags of any thickness.

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board Vs Commissioner Municipal Corporation Bhopal & Others dated 08/08/2013 regarding collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal waste.

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