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Board’s recommendation placed before SLMC
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Board’s recommendation placed before SLMC
The State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has recommended a halt to the dumping of waste generated in local bodies other than Kochi Corporation at the Brahmapuram yard to tide over the worsening ecological situation at the site.
Five municipalities and three panchayats have been transporting their biodegradable waste to Brahmapuram for long. They are Angamaly, Aluva, Kalamassery, Thrikkakara and Thripunitura municipalities and Vadavucode-Puthencruz, Cheranalloor and Kumbalanghi panchayats.
Despite several directives issued by the State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on Solid Waste Management and the board, the civic bodies had failed to evolve their own mechanism to process waste. The board’s recommendation has been placed before the SLMC for follow-up action. Waste collection from other local bo
Holes in the e-waste cart
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Come October, it will be five years since the e-waste management rules came into effect. Some progress has been made in terms of consumer awareness building, creation of producer responsibility organisations, and listing of authorised recyclers and dismantlers. Yet, the process is far from streamlined.
Collection of e-waste is still an enormous challenge. And the bulk of e-waste is still handled by the informal sector. Besides, there are unverified reports of large quantities of e-waste being imported for refurbishment and re-exports. These often leak into the un-regularised recycling system.
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A view of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), in New Delhi. File
| Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma “Long stories of all-round failure of the administration are poor substitute for good governance required to enforce environmental rule of law for protection of public health and the environment,” observed the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal while considering the Brahmapuram case in January.
The Bench led by its chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel had said that the “fact remains that the administration is patently a failure in protecting citizens’ right to clean environment, which is in no way less important than the right to live in crime free environment”.
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