New Delhi: While outdoor burning of biomass is prohibited in the city when pollution hits a certain level, waste-to-energy plants carry on incinerating garbage even during this period. This is being seen as an...
Every day, Delhi burns about 7,250 tonnes of unsegregated municipal solid waste in the city’s four WTE incinerators. NEW DELHI: In view of rising pollution in the city, over a hundred civil society organisations,...
The deteriorating air quality and its health hazards across the world has raised the concerns around people’s right to breathe clean air. Delhi-NCR, particularly in the winter months, has in fact emerged as a...
Fighting plastic pollution is a herculean task in itself. However, on top of fighting to save the planet and the people from the impacts of the entire plastic life-cycle
கூட்டறிக்கை சென்னை மாநகரில் ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் சுமார் 7600 மெட்ரிக் டன் திடக்கழிவுகள் உருவாகுவதாக அண்ணா பல்கலைக்கழக ஆய்வு குறிப்பிடுகிறது. இது ஒட்டுமொத்த தமிழ்நாடு உருவாக்கும் திடக்கழிவுகளில் 45 விழுக்காடு ஆகும். சென்னை மாநகரின் குப்பை மேலாண்மை கடும் போதாமைகள் நிறைந்ததாகவும் தீவிர சூழல் – சுகாதார...
Chennai generates about 6,000 metric tonnes of garbage every day. As the city’s population continues to grow, waste generation is expected to increase even more.
“Destructors”, “incinerators” and “waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration” all mean the same thing - indiscriminate burning of garbage! Having a history of about one and half centuries, WTE incinerators have seen several reboots over the 19th,...
About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India....
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has refused to renew Ramky Energy and Environment Limited’s (Ramky) “consent to operate” for the bio-medical waste incineration facility in A. Mukkulam, Virudhunagar, which expired on 31...
Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels) became popular in several international institutions,...
Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels) became popular in several international institutions,...
