Rampant garbage burning choking city
Dehradun: Despite being relegated to 384th spot in the recently declared Swachh Survekshan 2019, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) seems to be paying no attention to the pressing problem of heaps
Dehradun: Despite being relegated to 384th spot in the recently declared Swachh Survekshan 2019, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) seems to be paying no attention to the pressing problem of heaps
“People do not just fight over garbage here, I have seen them fight to the death over garbage,” says Samaan Girgis. “There are no rules in this job.” Girgis is one of the Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajiv Narayan & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 12/04/2019 regarding non-compliance of the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management
<p>Status report filed by the state of Madhya Pradesh, 12/04/2019 in compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.</p><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/solild-waste-management-Madhya-Pradesh-NGT-order-April2019.pdf"
Power outages are frequent and random in Nigeria. To solve this problem, a university in Nigeria has built an organic waste power-generating plant to provide electricity to the whole university. This is
Monrovia — The Monrovia City Cooperation (MCC) over the weekend lunched a new waste management system called the house to house garbage collection pilot project in four districts in Monrovia. According
Twenty-five tonnes of waste -- including some 50,000 flip-flops -- were collected in a five-week clean-up on the Seychelles’ remote atoll of Aldabra. Five volunteers from the University of Oxford and
PANJIM: Plastic bags, straws, cutlery and other disposable plastic items will soon disappear from Goa, as the State government is mulling a complete ban on single-use plastics from September 2019. The
Dar es Salaam — Will the problem of uncollected garbage in the streets of Dar es Salaam ever become history? Authorities in the Kinondoni Municipality, one of the five municipalities in the city, seem
A Chinese firm opened a 4.5 billion shilling (45 million U.S. dollars) plastic waste recycling plant in eastern Kenya on Monday to help curb environmental degradation. Weeco Recycling Company, which
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Gujarat) dated 09/04/2019.</p><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/waste-management-Gujarat-NGT-Order.pdf"
PANJIM: With over 50 per cent of the village panchayats (VPs) in Goa failing to identify land for storage, segregation and waste treatment facility, the State government is working on a plan to set up
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Maharashtra) dated 08/04/2019 regarding the status of compliance of orders
One in four health care facilities around the world lack basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF Joint Monitoring
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Original Application No. 606/2018 Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of West Bengal) dated 02/04/2019 regarding status
The Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai has come into the public spotlight with sorted garbage bins illustrated in Chinese, English and Japanese. Juexing, abbot of the Jade Buddha Temple, called on Buddhist
The towering heap of rubbish at the Pata-Rat landfill in western Romania has been condemned as an "environmental time bomb" but for many of its neighbours, this putrid mountain of refuse is a livelihood—one
This paper offers lessons from Kampala, Uganda, where community-based organisations and small enterprises play an important role in municipal solid waste management, especially in informal settlements.
The National Green Tribunal has slapped an interim penalty of Rs 10 crore on three builders in Gurgaon for violation of environmental norms and damaging the environment. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson
Ghana plans to replace its polluting "trotro" buses and formalise waste collection in slums as part of a new plan to help its crowded capital withstand climate change and disasters. The West African