Building debris disposal rules here: Greens cheer, builders are game
Behind the glitz of new and tall buildings in the city is a trail of chunky construction debris with no accountability for its management or disposal -until now. The Centre has come out with new rules
View ArticlePMC officials hail Centre's rules of managing construction and...
Environmentalists and officials hailed the Union environment ministry's maiden rules to manage construction and demolition waste, terming it a significant step forward to stop degradation of land. The
View ArticlePollution panel to monitor demolition waste disposal
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) will monitor the disposal of construction and demolition waste with Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) coming up with the new...
View ArticleNGT bans dumping of debris in Chenab and Tawi rivers
The National Green Tribunal has taken exception to indiscriminate dumping of soil in rivers Chenab and Tawi for construction of road on the Udhampur to Banihal stretch of the national highway and...
View ArticlePollution check with plant for debris
Gurgaon: The MCG is all set to sign a deal with private firm Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) on Monday to set up a waste treatment plant near Basai to check the haphazard...
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding excavation and use of red...
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Susan Rajan George Vs State of Kerala & Others dated 13/07/2016 regarding excavation and use of red earth, Mavelikara...
View ArticleBuildings above 20,000 sqm to pay Rs 5L for dust pollution: National Green...
"We hereby direct that construction sites which are built on a plot area of more than 20,000 square metre would be liable to pay environmental compensation of Rs 5,00,000 per violation," a bench headed
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding use of flyash in India,...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shantanu Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/08/2016 regarding the use of fly ash as land fill to reclaim low lying areas including...
View ArticleConstruction 'on the cheap' may have cost lives in Italy earthquake
Contractors who reinforced buildings "on the cheap" may have run up the death toll in central Italy's devastating earthquake and could face criminal charges, a local prosecutor said Sunday. Also Sunday,
View ArticleIllegal debris dumping on mangroves at shipyard plot?
NAVI MUMBAI: A large plot of land, belonging to a shipyard, near the Panvel creek has come under the lens of Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB). A city-based NGO has complained to the authorities that...
View ArticleHyderabad: Garbage throwers in for heavy punishment
Hyderabad: Municipal commissioners will be given magisterial powers to penalise those throwing garbage, plastic and construction waste on the roads, illegally installing posters, banners or flexis,...
View ArticleCarbon footprint of solid clay bricks fired in clamps of India
Carbon footprint is broadly defined as carbon dioxide (CO2.) emissions normalized per unit mass of a product or per unit of an activity. It is considered as an important environmental indicator for
View ArticleNewly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy...
A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured meta material — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air
View ArticleDraft guidelines on Environmental Management of C&D Waste Management in...
The draft “Guidelines on Environmental Management of C&D Waste Management in India (2017)” has been prepared by CPCB in compliance of under Duties of the Central Pollution Control Board under Rule...
View ArticleSolid Waste Management Rules 2016: How well they have been implemented on...
The 2016 Rules supersede the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2000 and expand the ambit of application to every urban local body, including outgrowths in urban agglomerations, census towns, areas under...
View ArticleGuidelines on environmental management of construction & demolition (C...
CPCB has brought `Guidelines on Environmental Management of C&D Wastes' in compliance of Rule 10 sub-rule 1(a) of the C&D Waste Management Rules, 2016 and has attempted to address the issues...
View ArticleMud bricks best for cool, green houses, says study
Simple mud concrete bricks provide the most affordable and sustainable houses in the tropics, a Sri-Lankan study suggests. Comparisons of four different types of walling materials revealed that mud
View ArticleIndex properties of soil of Sabarmati river, Gandhinagar District, Gujarat
The present work is mainly focused on the Geotechnical properties of the areas in Gandhinagar district. The recent growth which is associated with urbanization in Gandhinagar -Ahmedabad Township calls
View ArticleThe urban bio-loop: growing, making and regenerating
Cities could tackle the global problem of rising levels of waste and depleted resources by using organic waste, such as bananas, potatoes and maize as building materials, Arup predicts. Globally the...
View ArticleDebris chokes river Cooum as officials turn a blind eye
CHENNAI: While the Tamil Nadu government spent hundreds of crores of taxpayer money to restore the Cooum river, miscreants have wreaked havoc on the project piling tonnes of construction and plastic waste
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