Sanitation

Guidelines and regulations for fecal sludge management from on-site sanitation facilities

In low- and middle-income countries, the management of fecal sludge from on-site sanitation systems has received little attention over many decades, resulting in insufficient or missing regulations to guide investments and management options.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2019
Nilanthi Jayathilake, Pay Drechsel, Bernard Keraita, & et al
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
Tags:
Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Sewage, Health Effects, India, Global
Solid Waste

Plan waste treatment in 180 days: Gujarat Pollution Control Board

Plastic manufacturers from state who got closure notice for violating plastic waste management rules get relief

Publication Date: 
27/06/2019
Daily News Analysis (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Waste Treatment, Waste Management, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Plastics, Non-Biodegradable Waste, Solid Waste
Solid Waste

Garbage-free Goa: Parrikar’s 2020 target in the bin as Sawant says ’24

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.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2019
Times Of India (Goa)
Tags:
Goa, Garbage, Waste Treatment, Waste Disposal, Solid Waste
Hazardous Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding authorization given to Ferro Build Hards, a bio-medical waste treatment facility, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, 21/05/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Praduman Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/05/2019 regarding cancelling of authorization in favour of Ferro Build Hards (I) Pvt. Ltd., Naini, Allahabad, (Pragyaj), Uttar Pradesh. Grievance in this application is that the plant in question is very close to residential area, river bed, railway track and highway. In spite of unsuitable location, UPPCB has granted authorization under the provisions of Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 in violation of guidelines issued by the CPCB in the year 2003.

Judgement Date: 
21/05/2019
Tags:
Hospital Waste, Waste Treatment, Allahabad (T), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Uttar Pradesh, Court, Rivers, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Solid Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding EC for the Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant at Ranchi, Jharkhand, 19/02/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anil Kumar Singh Vs State of Jharkhand & Others dated 19/02/2019 regarding Environment Clearance for the Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant at Ranchi. NGT says that the authorities have been delaying the process and that the matter has been pend

Judgement Date: 
19/02/2019
Tags:
Municipal Solid Waste, Waste Treatment, Ranchi (T), Jharkhand, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Environment Clearance (EC)
Solid Waste

Ghaziabad waste ferried to Meerut

GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation(GMC) has started sending civic waste to Meerut after Meerut Municipal Corporation(MMC) considered the GMC’s request to allow dumping of civic waste in

Publication Date: 
25/01/2019
Times Of India (Noida)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Ghaziabad (T), Waste Treatment, Meerut (D), Waste Management, Solid Waste
Solid Waste

Solid waste management in Vientiane, Lao P.D.R

This report was prepared in support of GGGI’s Green Cities Development Program in Lao PDR. Following a request of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (henceforth Lao PDR) Government, GGGI has been conducting a green city pilot program in the capital city, Vientiane, to demonstrate how this concept could be implemented in the Lao context.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2018
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Waste Management, Waste To Energy, Waste Recycling, Laos, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Organic Waste
Solid Waste

Lalru garbage plant sans green certificate

ZIRAKPUR: The municipal council proposes to take the company operating Lalru’s garbage-processing plant to court for breach of trust, since it had claimed to have sought environmental clearance fro

Publication Date: 
06/08/2018
Times of India (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Chandigarh, Waste Processing, Waste Treatment, Environment Clearance (EC), Solid Waste
Solid Waste

Mumbai: 567 societies & business units face cases for not treating waste

To push waste segregation and processing at source, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has initiated prosecution against 962 bulk waste generators – housing societies and commercial establishme

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Waste Treatment, Mumbai, Municipal Corporation, Waste Management, Solid Waste
Solid Waste

No untreated waste at sites after 2020: LG

NEW DELHI: Refuting the insinuation that he was “doing nothing” to deal with the garbage menace in Delhi, lieutenant governor Anil Baijal on Monday placed a comprehensive report on action taken by

Publication Date: 
17/07/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Garbage, Waste Treatment, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Solid Waste

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