Garbage disposal system being overhauled
DIBRUGARH, March 23: The entire garbage collection and disposal system in Dibrugarh is being overhauled.
DIBRUGARH, March 23: The entire garbage collection and disposal system in Dibrugarh is being overhauled.
The Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) will not only have to stop dumping of garbage at Assagao plateau but will also have to immediately fence-- the whole dumping site. The High Court directed MMC to appoint adequate number of chawkidars and guards within 48-hours guard at the site.
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Mumbai The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has sought proposals to start more bio-medical waste treatment plants in regions of the Thane district and other districts in the state.
Forty-eight hospitals of the city and district, including SSG Hospital, have been served notices by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for being negligent in disposal of bio-medical waste. According to GPCB officials, the notices were issued after a team of officials that surveyed hospitals and clinics in February submitted its report recently.
KARACHI, March 20: The city government has issued a legal notice to the Chinese contractor who was given the responsibility of collecting garbage across the city, saying that despite the passing of over a year since the signing of the initial contract no work has been done on the ground, Dawn has learnt.
DIBRUGARH, March 20
Udhagamandalam: Concerned over the ban on disposable plastic items being increasingly observed in the breach in this hill station, the district and civic administrations have started cracking down on violators.
After a protest by a group of youth today, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) announced chalking out strategy to enforce complete ban on the use polythene in city and outskirts. After burning polythene in the premises of SMC office located in Karannagar the group of youth met the commissioner of Srinagar Municipal Corporation Farooq Ahmad Renzu and demanded complete ban on it.
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has given its approval for Municipal Corporation councillors to conduct a study tour in Gujarat. A communication to this effect was received on Monday.
Issues 56 applications for Bio-Medical Waste Authorisation The Goa State Pollution Control Board has conducted inspection of 144 healthcare facilities and has issued 56 new applications for obtaining Bio-Medical Waste Authorization.
The incinerator and plasma pyrolysis plant at Goa Medical College & Hospital treating bio-medical waste are not in good health. Also, this premier hospital lacks certain facilities as it treats bio-medical waste from other hospitals as well.
AHMEDABAD: Hepatitis-B scare that swept city followed by anomalies in disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) seem to have finally prompted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to plan its own BMW disposal site in a public-private partnership (PPP).
Hoteliers threaten to move High Court PANJIM, MARCH 15 The Panjim Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association today threatened to move the High Court against the Corporation of the City of Panaji as their garbage has been left unattended for over eight days.
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Hepatitis-B scare that swept city followed by anomalies in disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) seem to have finally prompted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to plan its own BMW disposal site in a public-private partnership (PPP).
R Venkatesh, Bangalore, DH News Service: Namaskara, a Swiss artist Marc Lee welcomes you in his foreign accent to his dream structure 'pyramid' covered with recycled material and shiny plastic waste, acting as chimes.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday directed the Urban Development and Environment Ministries to draft a Parliamentary Act that could manage the garbage menace.
Observing that the preservation of ecology is a fundamental challenge, Governor NN Vohra has said Shri Amarnath Shrine Board will take a firm initiative in funding eco-awareness-cum-conservation campaigns and supplementing the afforestation programmes in selected areas.
SANTOSH K. KIRO Clean-up act Ranchi, March 12: Kitchen waste will soon become valuable. The civic body in the state capital would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from here, to convert the waste generated from households into compost