Position paper on the solid waste management sector in India
The unbundling of services and technological innovations, particularly in the areas of sanitation and water supply and SWM has opened up these areas to the private sector.
The unbundling of services and technological innovations, particularly in the areas of sanitation and water supply and SWM has opened up these areas to the private sector.
Privatization of solid waste management (SWM) services has been a debated topic and has come under greater focus in recent times.
COIMBATORE: As an essential part of its Rs. 96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Project, the Coimbatore Corporation is trying to generate awareness among the people on the need for a clean city and the segregation of waste and storage in separate bins at home as an essential requirement towards that end.
Despite a popular demand for it, and Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh having already set a precedent, India will not have a blanket ban on plastic carry bags. The Environment Ministry has instead proposed putting in place a stricter regulatory regime for plastic manufacturers.
Oct. 27: The Greater Hyderabad, spread over 625 sq km of area and housing a population of 70 lakh, has only one garbage dumpyard, which is fast outliving its utility. The state capital is badly suffering from shortage of garbage dumpyards, with the management of waste becoming a nightmare for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal corporation (GHMC).
Need to train staff in segregating biomedical waste stressed.
Jamshedpur, Oct. 26: The state-run Jharkhand Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation will provide required technical assistance to the proposed Adityapur auto cluster
Three municipalities in south Chennai set up an integrated solid waste management project (Established 2002). With a private-public partnership, they are trying to find a solution to one of urban India's greatest nightmares, garbage.
It is necessary to have a waste management plan based on a
VISITORS can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people.
IMPROPER disposal of medical wastes is a matter of grave concern for human health and environment. Medical waste may carry germs of different deadly diseases. In developing countries, medical waste management has not received much attention. It is usually disposed off randomly. Improper medical waste management is alarming in Bangladesh and poses a serious threat to public health.
The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right of all to an adequate shelter and to remind the world of its collective responsibility towards human habitat
Home to the capital city and nearly a million people, the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii, USA, is highly dependent on external resources. Over the past decade, large-scale agricultural production has diminished dramatically, leaving the island greatly reliant on imports for food and most other basic goods.
In the Campania region, an area in the south of Italy with 5.7 million inhabitants and a production of about 7,900 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day, an emergency situation was created by inappropriate waste management policy and practice. In order to support decisions regarding future solutions for this crisis, reliable, transparent, and impartial strategies and concepts are needed.
Effective life cycle management of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) calls for the separation of end-of-life PVC products at the time of collection not only from other wastes but among different PVC types as well. Information about the flow of PVC products in the economy is important for this purpose.
The biodegradable polymers could be an alternative to the conventional plastic materials. These polymers being biodegradable can be disposed in safe and ecologically sound manner, through disposal processes (waste management) like
<p>This paper describes the design, construction and management of the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED), a high density residential development that accommodates a mix of income groups and combines homes and workspaces.
TWO months ago, a fleet of hydraulic trucks of a private company started collecting garbage from homes in many areas of Nagpur. The trucks transport the garbage directly to the landfill site managed by another private company. This privatization of garbage collection has alarmed some 5,000 ragpickers who earn their living by rummaging through the city
In an effort to curb the mounting garbage problem and complement the segregation of solid waste at source, an introduction of a
With a federal plan to handle nuclear waste in deadlocked disarray, an advisory panel that has spent 20 years studying a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain turned Wednesday to discussing ways of reusing the fuel instead.