Armed villagers prevented government officials from entering the site of a proposed solid waste treatment plant in Khairbani on the outskirts of Jamshedpur on Friday, their resistance inspired by f

: With the prospects of transporting 25,000 tons of hazardous waste turning out a remote possibility, the Goa State Pollution Control Board on Wednesday has directed the Managing Director of Goa In

Gujarat Produces 25,000 Tonnes Of Solid Waste Daily

Gandhinagar: Government and industry need to take pro-active measures to scale up solid waste treatment to derive alternate fuel, while looking for a substitute to landfill sites. This was decided by the members of union government’s Forum for Co-processing of Hazardous and Non-Hazardous Waste at a meeting in the state capital on Monday.

JAMMU: J&K State Pollution Control Board (JKSPCB) today organised a public hearing at Phase II, IGC Samba near the project site in village Madhera in connection with setting up of an integrated common hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facility.

Regional Director, SPCB, Shoket Choudhary while speaking, highlighted the utility of the project and stressed upon the urgent need for treatment, storage, disposal and recycling of industrial hazardous waste, bio-medical and e-waste on scientific lines in accordance with Hazardous Waste Rules, 2008 under the provisions of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

PANJIM: Construction of the state’s sole hazardous waste treatment plant that would have taken care of total 3.30 lakh metric tones of waste at Dharbandora now seems to be a distant dream, with har

VASCO: Barely days ahead of the October 31 deadline set by South Goa Collector N D Agarwal, all four panchayats in the area are still clueless on ways to clear garbage around Dabolim airport on a daily basis.

With the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) refusing to accept their garbage, the four panchayats of Chicalim, Chicolna-Bogmallo, Sancoale and Velsao-Pale are left with no option to dump garbage in their jurisdiction as they all fall within the 10-km radius of the airport.

The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants.

The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units to 90 per cent, and biogas plants to 75 per cent. The government subsidy will be routed through the Sanitation Mission.

The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants.

The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units to 90 per cent, and biogas plants to 75 per cent. The government subsidy will be routed through the Sanitation Mission.