Environmental Standards Effluent TANNERY EFFLUENT STANDARD (AFTER PRIMARY TREATMENT) : DISPOSAL CHANNEL/CONDUIT CARRYING WASTEWATER TO SECONDARY TREATMENT PLANT Type of tanneries Parameter Concentration limit not exceed, mg/l (except pH) Chrome tanneries/combined chrome & vegetable tanneries pH SS Chromium concentration after treatment in the chrome waste water stream 6.5 to 9.0 Not to exceed 600 45 [...]

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The Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) has launched the Charter on “Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection (CREP)” in March 2003 with the purpose to go beyond the compliance of regulatory norms for prevention & control of pollution through various measures including waste minimization, in-plant process control & adoption of clean technologies. The Charter has [...]

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The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. 1974 is an act of parliament to provide for the prevention and control of Water Pollution and the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water, for the establishment, with a view to carrying out the purposes aforesaid, of Boards for the prevention and Control of Water Pollution, [...]

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Status of Pollution Control in Tanneries of Uttar Pradesh The U.P. Pollution Control Board has identified 469 tannery industries in the state out of which 404 tanneries are treated in Kanpur. Details of effluent treatment system in 404 tanneries installed at Kanpur is as follows: Based on vegetable tanning system                                                          -           198 I.            Primary effluent [...]

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India has taken large strides towards multi-faced socio-economic development during the 50 years since independence. However, this development has also brought along with it the pressures on Land, Water and Air quality affecting the environment adversely. To control the environmental pollution, the Govt. has laid an organisational, regulatory and fiscal framework under the MOEF & [...]

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The high BOD from distilleries has been a cause of major environmental concern over the years. They have also been covered under the Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection 2003, in India, wherein it has been provided that a system of bank guarantees and an action plan be put in place to implement the following options/recommendations [...]

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With the promulgation of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974, India initiated a process of establishing a regime for control of pollution . A Central Act of Parliament, consequently adopted by the state legislatures, the Water Act, established the Water Pollution Control Boards, which were consequently, with the promulgation of the Air [...]

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