Thane residents say no to waste tax RESIDENTS of Thane city are not willing to pay tax for the garbage that goes out of their homes each day. The Thane Municipal Corporation in November 2008 had proposed a nominal solid waste tax for scientific disposal of garbage. The target was to collect Rs 3.16 crore a year. But the civic body gave in to pressure from corporators and people who were
The tax structures devised by Thane Municipal Corporation: Slum dwellers: Rs 10 per month per family Flat owners: Rs 15 per month per flat Restaurants and pubs: Rs 120 a month Malls, wedding halls, cattle sheds and hotels: Rs 50-100 each day
CHENNAI: Visitors to Kilburn Nagar and its neighbouring colonies are often appalled by the thick clouds of acrid smoke enveloping the area. But for residents enduring the garbage dump it has been a daily ordeal for nearly a decade.
Biomedical waste dumped in Sector IX, Bokaro. Picture by Pankaj Singh Bokaro, Feb. 12: Bokaro, considered to be one of the cleanest districts in the state, is fast turning into a wasteland.
A major fire engulfed a scrap yard located in a residential locality at Colva last night, destroying plastic and other waste
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Delhi Government on a petition by the All-India Plastic Industries
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is likely to join hands with the East Delhi Waste Processing Company Private Limited (EDWPCL).
COIMBATORE: More residential colonies in the city are joining the
Chandigarh: Ill-maintained parks and green belts as well as dumped construction waste are some of the problems that continue to harass residents in Sector 30. It is evident that the sector is in dire need of being spruced up. Broken swings in the parks are proving to be a risk for children while plantation in the area too seems to be neglected.
Karthik Madhavan BHAVANI: Appakoodal Town Panchayat has been implementing solid waste management for the past one year.
NAVI MUMBAI: Several malls have mushroomed over the last three years - five have sprung up in Vashi itself - and mall culture is here to stay. But how many of these mammoth structures, which record thousands of footfalls daily, think of culturing the huge amount of waste they inevitably generate? Well, one mall has made an innovative, eco-friendly beginning in this direction.
IMPHAL, Feb 8
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is of the firm view that the menace of non-biodegradable and non-recyclable plastic bags should be eliminated for its waste management programme to be successful.
In a non-descript slum in Jahangirpuri, the hair you throw into your bathroom bin transforms into wigs for idols, and the toys you dispose of make their way into second-hand markets.
NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the harmful impact of plastics on the environment, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said effective waste management of plastics was the need of the hour.
Faced with stiff public opposition to the Bainguinim site, the Congress-led Government seems to be making moves to search for an alternate site to dispose garbage.
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