Importers of foreign waste will not be allowed to sully the environment anymore. The ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has alerted the directorate general of foreign trade (DGFT) to the

The Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) to be commissioned later this year to serve a cluster of 132 tanneries in Pallavaram near Madras will have a unique feature: it will bring 3 neighbouring

The hue and cry raised by environmentalists about the Puri beach, castigated by the Central Pollution Control Board as one of the most polluted in India, has finally forced the Orissa government to

Excise duty imposed on methane produced by effluent treatment plants has been withdrawn

Some fungi and bacteria can be used to extract metals from mine effluents

Workers at Baranagar jute factory in West Bengal, one of five shut down by the state pollution control board, have decided to contribute part of their wages to help install an effluent treatment

Kanpur -- the second most polluted city on the Ganga after Calcutta -- has come under the microscope during the first phase of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP). However, the city's residents will have to

KOCHI:  The preparation of the draft plan for the
second phase of development of the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant has
been completed.

According to the plan, the civic
body will construct a unit to produce crude oil from plastic waste and a
substation to generate electricity from the waste in the second phase of
expansion.

TIRUCHI: A four MW power plant can be installed by making use of solid waste generated in Tiruchi city alone, according to M. Kamaraj, Professor, Department of Bioenergy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.