Sanitation

AAP, BJP show political will to clean up city

Centre Allocates Rs 96.5 Crore To Kejriwal Govt For First Phase Of Swachh Delhi Abhiyan

Publication Date: 
23/11/2015
Mayank Manohar
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Sanitation, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Waste To Energy, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Urban Sanitation
Hazardous Waste

NGT asks Okhla plant to use better tech to segregate waste

The National Green Tribunal today warned the authorities of the Okhla waste-to-energy plant of shutting it down if it did not urgently instal equipment to segregate solid waste and continued to bur

Publication Date: 
19/11/2015
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Waste Disposal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Waste To Energy, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Pollution, Hazardous Waste
Environment

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding poultry farms in and around the District of Namakkal generating huge quantity of waste, 18/11/2015

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Subhashri Bio Energies Private Limited Vs Government of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 18/11/2015 regarding poultry farms in and around the District of Namakkal which generate huge quantity of waste of about 2500 MT of poultry litter per day.

Judgement Date: 
18/11/2015
Tags:
Poultry, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Waste Disposal, Namakkal (D), Tamil Nadu, Court, Waste To Energy, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Air Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, Delhi, 18/11/2015

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association & Ors. Vs. State of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 18/11/2015 regarding waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, Delhi.

Judgement Date: 
18/11/2015
Tags:
Waste To Energy, Municipal Solid Waste, Waste Incineration, Delhi, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Dioxin, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Air Pollution
Solid Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding municipal solid waste management at Jammu and Katra, 16/11/2015

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Ors. dated 16/11/2015 regarding municipal solid waste management at Jammu and Katra and passage upward to Bhawan and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi.

The NGT directed the authorities to present a complete action plan  in regard to collection, transportation and disposal of municipal solid waste.
Judgement Date: 
16/11/2015
Tags:
Municipal Solid Waste, Waste Management, Jammu (T), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Diseases, Horses, Municipal Corporation, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), River Pollution, Banganga, Waste To Energy, Srinagar (T), Jammu & Kashmir
Solid Waste

Govt. okays project for Rs.295-crore garbage plant

The government’s Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) cell has okayed a Rs.295-crore solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram.

Publication Date: 
12/11/2015
G. Krishnakumar
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Waste Treatment, Waste To Energy, Kochi, Waste Management, State Electricity Board (SEB), Solid Waste
Energy

Waste to energy: Bengaluru gets Dutch help

Karnataka state government signed an MoU on Monday with Netherlands' government for a waste to energy technology which will be utilised to dispose Bengaluru filth.

Publication Date: 
10/11/2015
Sandeep Moudgal
Times Of India (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Waste To Energy, Bangalore (T), Energy Technology, Waste Management, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Energy
Energy

Poo power: Human waste could heat 138 million households

Safely obtained biogas from human waste could generate electricity to power all of the households in in Indonesia, Brazil, and Ethiopia combined, if researchers can harness the correct innovative t

Publication Date: 
10/11/2015
Edie (UK)
Tags:
Energy, Waste To Energy, Renewable Energy, Open Defecation, Biogas, Waste Management
Solid Waste

Waste not, want not

Waste problem is a problem of finding solutions - approaches and technologies - that can match our pockets and our regulatory and governance abilities

Publication Date: 
09/11/2015
Sunita Narain
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Waste Disposal, Groundwater Pollution, Waste Management, Waste To Energy, Waste Recycling, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Solid Waste
Energy

Power from human waste could light millions of homes-UN University

Biogas from human waste has the potential to generate electricity for millions of homes while improving health and protecting the environment, a United Nations University institute said on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
04/11/2015
Reuters
Tags:
Energy, Biogas, Waste To Energy, Renewable Energy, Electricity, Health, Environment, Charcoal, WHO

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