To prevent serious injury from being caused to environment and humans, national green tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday banned burning of plastics, tyres, wires or any such materials in the scrap market

It's a chicken-and-egg situation. In the absence of a good public transport system, the city is dependent on private transport.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given "one last opportunity" to authorities in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including DMRC, to come clean as to who is dumping rubble in the river Yamuna.

The National Green Tribunal has granted “one final opportunity” to authorities in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the Delhi Development Authority, to file co

The Nagpur municipal corporation's (NMC) claims about being role model in water supply seem pretty tall.

PANJIM: Around 2,000 cases have been booked for using or selling plastic bags below 40 microns thickness, since April 8, 2013. Also fines of Rs 2.48 lakh have been imposed on the violators, Environment Minister Alina Saldanha said in a written reply to Goa Assembly Wednesday.

She said that government vide an April 8 order has implemented and enforced ‘The Goa Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act 1996’ in the State, to ban sale and use of plastic bags which are below 40 microns thickness.

Observing that amount of plastic waste in the country has become “frightening”, the Supreme Court today issued notices to municipal commissioners of Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Agra, Jaipur and Fari

A solution to the vexed problem of solid waste management in the city seems distant as the government continues to be in the dark on the technology to be adopted at the proposed new plant in Brahmapuram.

Efforts to initiate a waste-to-energy plant based on incineration method have backfired after the three companies that submitted the final bids informed that only 14 units of power could be generated from one tonne of waste.

The state government on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that only 12 municipal corporations in the state have proper landfill sites for solid waste management (SWM).

On the other hand, 14 civic corporations, including Mumbai, do not have secured landfill sites. The five municipal corporations that have landfill sites approved by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) are Navi Mumbai, Vasai-Virar, Pune, Nashik and Nagpur.

It was announced in Corporation Budget

The Coimbatore Corporation Council on Monday accorded approval for the waste-to-energy project. At the urgent meeting, the Council decided to implement the project, which will use 500 metric tonnes waste a day to generate power. The Council approving of the project comes days after Finance and Taxation Committee Chairperson R. Prabhakaran made an announcement in this regard in the Corporation Budget for 2013-14.