The East Municipal Corporation had decided to enlist the help of an NGO for its door-to-door garbage collection project. This was approved in the Standing Committee meeting on Thursday. The corporation
East Delhi Municipal Corporation has decided to start a pilot project of door-todoor garbage collection. CHINTAN Environment Research and Action Group, a Delhibased NGO, will be roped in for the project.
How To Dispose Of Wet Waste, Store Food Safely, Pack Food At Takeaways? New Delhi: They might be a nuisance for the environment but plastic bags have undoubtedly been of great service. One would think
New Delhi: After a false start three years ago, Delhi may finally be on the road to being free of plastic bags. The Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved imposition of a blanket ban on use, storage, sale and
New Delhi: New electronic waste management and handling rules were implemented acrossthecountry on May 1 this year. The new laws make it mandatory for producers of electronic goods to take back e-waste
New Delhi: About five times a year, the world breaks into celebrations over planet earth. Irrespective of what is done in the remaining 360 days, each time world water day, earth day, environment day or
Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red. The party’s latest posters asking for power to be generated from waste has drawn the ire of NGO Chintan, which
Every year, Delhi produces a colossal amount of hazardous waste. With no treatment system in place and a govt in denial, mishaps like the one in Mayapuri may become the order of the day Neha Lalchandani | TNN
In garbage dumps on the eastern outskirts of Delhi, Ravleen Kaur unearths an extortion racket that runs on a lapsed contract This is not what I had in mind when I signed up for journalism. I had dreams of becoming a war correspondent and cover conflicts in, say, Afghanistan. But here I was, trudging through garbage, looking for a story. From the smoke of a garbage dump, I can tell what
NEW DELHI: The government's determination to ban the plastic bag in the capital can fetch results only when people resolve to shun the bag and help implement the ban. That can come about only with awareness. However, the ban can be seriously undermined by the hundreds of illegal manufacturing units operating out of non-conforming areas in the city, without the necessary environmental clearances.
