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Puducherry government to implement waste management rulesBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 1, 2016
Puducherry government will implement the Municipal solid waste management rules, 2016, notified by the Union environment, forest and climate change ministry within a month following a direction... Read more.. |
1000 toxicity for a minute's exposure to burning garbage fumes in BengaluruBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 28, 2016
Spending a minute next to a burning garbage dump will expose a Bengalurean to 1,000 times more toxins than the daily safe limit, an Indo-US team of researchers has found. ... Read more.. Subject Tags: Research , waste management |
Green guards move NGT for order executionBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 28, 2016
Environmentalists Rajesh Pandit and Lalita Shinde have moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for execution of its judgment dated October 17, 2015 on the pollution of Godavari inTrimbakeshwar... Read more.. |
Government plans waste plant at RajghatBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 27, 2016
With waste treatment capacity only 50% of what is generated each day, the Delhi government is looking to convert the Rajghat power plant, now closed, into a waste-to-energy plant.... Read more.. |
Waste-to-energy pilot project to start in DecemberBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2016
The German government's nodal agency, Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit's (GIZ), that will be converting waste to energy here as a pilot project in the country, will start the... Read more.. |
Mysuru City Corporation to set up plant to recycle construction debrisBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2016
After dilly-dallying for many years, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has come up with a solution to end the menace of construction and demolition debris being indiscriminately dumped along the... Read more.. |
Kochi takes waste management initiativesBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2016
The daunting problems of waste management and vehicle parking in Kochi, the commercial nerve centre of Kerala, may finally be addressed with the electronic startups in the state all set to take... Read more.. Subject Tags: sustainability , waste management |
Railways to implement green corridor; 175 km long track made waste discharge freeBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 20, 2016
Aiming at making rail tracks on its network as green corridor, Railways Wednesday announced that 175-km long line was made waste discharge free zone as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The 141... Read more.. |
BARC to help Rajkot process solid wasteBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 18, 2016
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear research institute, has joined hands with the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) to generate energy from organic waste. The civil... Read more.. |
Waste-to-energy plant to come up at Bhalswa by DecemberBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 18, 2016
North Delhi Municipal Corporation has announced an ambitious project to install a waste-to-energy plant and a methane extractor plant at the Bhalswa landfill site by December. This is a bid to... Read more.. |