State turns blind eye on pollution guidelines
West Bengal continues to grossly ignore guidelines, issued by the Union ministry of environment and forests five years ago, on treatment and disposal of biomedical waste from hospitals and other
West Bengal continues to grossly ignore guidelines, issued by the Union ministry of environment and forests five years ago, on treatment and disposal of biomedical waste from hospitals and other
A division bench of the Kerala High Court today directed the Kerala State Pollution Control Board to file a report before March 12 regarding the manner in which biomedical waste is being disposed of
Most municipal corporations and councils in Maharashtra lack the resources to manage the increasing amount of waste generated in urban areas, according to A.K. Jain, a senior adviser with all- India
Greenpeace asked the European Commission this week to prosecute Spain over its handling of the Prestige tanker disaster, saying it breached EU waste laws by letting the ship sink and release its
Hospitals in the Kerala state will have to take immediate steps for effective bio-medical waste management as the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has refused to give more time for
Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan convenor Abdul Jabbar condemned the statement of Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Arif Aqueel that neither was any toxic waste at Union Carbide Factory site
According to industry-body British Glass, councils must be careful when deciding what to do with waste glass. Councils that sell their glass to aggregates companies rather than glass recyclers need
Fifteen North American electronics recycling firms, representing 21 recycling facilities, have pledged to prevent hazardous electronic waste, known as
The civic bodies as well as the hospitals in Goa will no longer be able to disown their responsibility for disposal of bio-medical waste as the NGOs will now take up this this issue and force the
The stink of the garbage consisting of discarded foodstuff and wastes of so many kinds dumped at Pachchanady, Mangalore, has spread throughout the place making life unbearable. People are complaining
France has offered to extend its expertise and technologies to India in the field of water, waste and environment management.
In an attempt to find a permanent solution to management of solid waste in the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has finally managed to convince the authorities concerned to make two pits
Congress which rose to power promising to enhance the beauty of Kundapur, Mangalore, Karnataka, has coolly forgotten its assurance. All the waste of Kundapur flows into Haladi river emanating stench.
Agriculture Department will soon remove the trouble of throwing the waste flowers and stale food from the House. Now this will be used for making organic fertiliser in the House. For this,40 retired
The Government has launched a three-month consultation on new regulations for end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) so that it can implement the European directive on the disposal of waste vehicles. These
A discussion on the various issues related to biomedical waste management in Guwahati was held in the office premises of the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup, Assam on March 12. The discussion was jointly
The warnings of Uttar Pradesh state government and notices served by the Pollution Control Board (PCB) has failed to tame the errant factory owners who have been discharging industrial waste in the
The European Commission has approved a number of schemes proposed by the UK Government's Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), but has expressed concern that the organisation's largest fund
Failing to tame the industrial units discharging their untreated waste into the upstream Gomti, the officials at the UP Pollution Control Board decided to serve notices on six such units. Blaming
The Maharashtra government has finally approved the controversial bio-medical waste disposal project of the Nasik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on the banks of Godavari river. The disposal center