Aafrin Kidwai
Addressing participants at a workshop in Chandigarh, Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav commended the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to substantially bring down the paddy farm fire counts during…
Aafrin Kidwai
The NGT, July 25, 2022, had asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) “to collate information on legacy and active dump sites in cities having a population of more than one million and in the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Madhya Pradesh’s second e-waste recycling plant is being launched in Gwalior by Prometheus. The plant has reportedly received approval from the Pollution Control Board for handling hazardous and e-waste. The plant will reportedly manually segregate,…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an application filed by the Resident Welfare Associations in Ghaziabad on the failure of the statutory authorities to manage the waste, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam to deposit interim compensation of Rs. 1 crore…
Aafrin Kidwai
A team constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) visited the Jhuriwala dumping site in Chandigarh for unscientific waste dumping after the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) pointed out alleged violations by the city’s civic corporation.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has launched an online portal for registration of Producers, Importers & Brand Owners (PIBOs) under the Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2016. As per the rules, PIBOs are “required to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the NCT Delhi and the Municipal Corporations concerned to coordinate and execute the work of remediating the legacy waste dump sites for enforcing the rule of law and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Central Pollution Control Board has filed its compliance report to the National Green Tribunal on scientific disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) during the COVID pandemic. Some of the highlights of the report, titled Scientific…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure strict compliance of the Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016. It also asked CPCB to ensure that the compensation regime is…
Aafrin Kidwai
India collected just 10 per cent of the electronic waste (e-waste) estimated to have been generated in the country during 2018-19 and 3.5 per cent of e-waste generated in 2017-18, according to a recent report by…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) inspection of three waste to energy plants in Delhi has resulted in the discovery of high cadmium levels in fly ash at Bawana and Ghazipur plants. A report was…
Aafrin Kidwai
The latest guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) provide specifications on segregation of general solid waste and biomedical waste from quarantine centers/home-care/healthcare facilities treating COVID-19 patients. Recommendations are also provided on the…
Editor
The WtE plant in Okhla seems to comply with all governmental and environmental standards, according to local state officials. A joint inspection was conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Delhi Pollution…
