3 months on, GMADA awaits clearance from pollution board
Almost three months after conducting a public hearing for Mohali
Almost three months after conducting a public hearing for Mohali
Union Ministry holds up eco clearance for various projects Main sources of pollution are industries, municipal garbage and hospital waste Industries agree to spend Rs.
PARADIP: On the 6-km stretch of the beach are mounds of waste, leaving locals worried about their health. The garbage at Kalinga Bali Yatra ground, which concluded last Friday, is an eyesore for onlookers. The efforts of the municipal administration to clean it notwithstanding, locals are worried about the health hazards they may pose. The worsening sanitation reflects on the illmaintaine
Ocean currents work magic when they help ships navigate from one place to the other or bring rain. However, together with the Horse latitudes, they also have created a new continent as big as Africa and still expanding, which may never support life because it is plain garbage, dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of World Bank, has pledged assistance to Waste Management Corporation (WMC) to eliminate waste collected across the country.
Despite the negative image about Bhopal created by the Union Carbide gas leak tragedy, the position is different when it comes to the city's concerns for its environment.
Don't use the word "waste" around venture capitalist Bill Green. The managing director with Silicon Valley-based VantagePoint Venture Partners, which has invested in two companies that use discarded materials to produce energy, prefers to think of the stuff we throw away as the next generation of energy feedstocks.
Green is in as Indian corporates race to compete for a share of the fast-growing Rs 35,250-crore global market for climate-friendly technology and carbon credits
Transition from fossil fuel dominated energy to clean, carbon compliant sources demand its generation from alternative sources that could provide flexible and scalable solutions. This is the big challenge in view that the gas and coal fired installations continue to increase unabated notwithstanding the harsh realities of global warming and climate change consequences.
Village Kutkipura in Berasia tahasil of Bhopal district has ushered in a revolution by generating electricity by human waste. The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan dedicated to people a 5 kw bio electricity generation plant set up at a cost of about Rs. 22 lakh in this village which would generate electricity by human waste.
NEW DELHI: Firm on the need to increase nuclear power generation, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said given the low levels of nuclear power generation, the issue of handling waste was one of management.
With the clean technology space in India attracting major funding in 2010, more start-ups are looking at energy efficiency applications and waste management as a business model to woo investors into this space.
Waste abatement measures can go a long way in controlling pollution and increasing efficiency, prove several surveys. Access to right technology is needed.
The Concerned Citizen's Commission, a coalition of citizens groups, has submitted its enquiry report on the Mumbai deluge of July 26, 2005. The report holds poor drainage, sanitation and waste management system to be primarily responsible for the floods. But the Maharashtra government is yet to pay heed to the report. Rather, it is busy de-silting river Mithi, a task inaugurated a few weeks ago.
The Central Environment Authority (CEA) is to take the initiative to solve the garbage problem completely by the year 2012 by providing necessary assistance to local authorities countrywide.
Chintan works for environmental justice in partnership with people and groups from diverse sections of society. Focus is on ensuring equitable and sustainable production and consumption of materials, and
Messe Frankfurt, world's leading exhibition oragniser brings together 4 shows on Wastewater treatment, Waste Mgmt and Recycling, Sustainable and Clean Technology and Pollution Control and Environment Magmt.
International Conference on Environmental, Energy and Waste Management aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and