<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Srikanta Samanta Vs State of West Bengal dated 13/11/2024.</p> <p>The matter related to a dumping ground located
Angry residents in Naples attacked fire-fighters trying to extinguish burning garbage in the trash collection crisis in the southern Italian city, said authorities. Fire-fighters said the residents threw stones. No injuries were reported. Fire-fighters said the police had to escort them while putting out fires. Premier Silvio Berlusconi would preside over a Cabinet meeting in Naples this week to resolve the garbage collection crisis, which broke out in December 2007 when collectors stopped picking up trash because there was no more room at the dumps.
WOW ! That is what you would probably say when someone pays you for your garbage. It is also a new system
Door-to-door collection of garbage from hotels in the Commercial Capital by a private agency will begin on a trial basis for 10-15 days only from Wednesday The agency, Municipal Waste Collection Committee, on Monday had a meeting with the Chief Officer Y B Tawde and Chairperson Johnson Fernandes, wherein the civic body agreed upon to make available one municipal truck, driver and labourers to the agency to lift garbage from the city hotels. The Chief Officer is believed to have rejected the proposal for payment of money to the agency.
Residents of a few pockets in the Okkiyam Thoraipakkam village panchayat, have been suffering due to the round-the-clock burning of plastics, kitchen waste and other forms of garbage. The village panchayat is among the 25 rural local bodies of St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union (also called St. Thomas Mount Block). On the city's fringes and located off Rajiv Gandhi Salai or Information Technology Corridor, it has been witnessing massive development in construction of software and residential complexes.
Britons may have to pay
If everything goes well, the Model Colony ward of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) could become a 'model' before the other municipal wards for making use of the discarded garbage for a 'powerful' cause. The municipal body is planning to generate electricity by setting up a biogas plant that will use the garbage within the Model Colony ward as its fuel input and run the streetlights in the ward with the electricity generated.
The ambitious plan to decentralise the garbage disposal at four different places in the city received a boost with the forest department finally giving its approval to set up a garbage disposal plant in Punawale. This will enable the city to have four garbage disposal plants in different parts of the city as against the present system of the lone dumping ground at Urali Devachi village.
Non-removal of waste from the South Goa Planning and Development and the adjoining acquired land prompted some vendors to set tones of waste afire on Wednesday evening. The vendors maintained that the Margao Civic body has been irregular in clearing the waste, which gives a bad look to the mega market, visited by thousands of customers every day. This is not the first time that the Margao Civic body has failed to clear the waste from the market despite payments made by the PDA.
The tug of war between the Goa State Urban Development Agency (GSUDA) and the Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) over "who will cap the Curca garbage dump?' may have ended but the work of capping the dump is yet to start though the monsoon is not far away. The work had to be completed before the monsoons to ensure that polluted water does not reach Curca village. The CCP which has been directed by the High Court, last week, to cover the garbage dump with tarpaulim before the monsoon of 2008, has not been able to start the work for want of funds.
The situation at the Sonsodo garbage dump yard is slowly but surely heading towards unmanageable proportions, even as Curtorim MLA Reginaldo Lourenco has threatened to stop garbage dumping at the site if the government fails to work out a solution immediately. A month have gone since Hyderabad-based Hyquip Project signed an agreement with the government to set up the garbage treatment plant at Sondoso with the in vessel technology, but the plant is yet to take shape at the yard.
