Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Full to the brim: Malliga Mohan, chairperson of Madambakkam town panchayat, at the compost yard where kitchen waste is converted into manure. TAMBARAM: After remaining idle for a very long time, compost yards built in most of the town panchayats around Tambaram have started functioning. Several lakhs were spent over …
Besides directing the State Government to remove all encroachments on the Pallikaranai marshlands, the Madras High Court has directed the Chennai Corporation not to permit the four municipalities
The Quepem Municipal Council (QMC) finally lifted the garbage from Quepem town late Wednesday evening and dumped it at an undisclosed location. It is not known whether QMC's decision to remove the garbage was prompted by threats from opposition councillors to dump garbage outside the council building on Thursday or …
Dumping of solid waste and garbage by the banks of the Kalang and the Morikalang is one of the main reasons of water pollution in the region, although people here have been using the water of these rivers for drinking since ages. The polluted water has caused many serious diseases …
The Cunchelim Action Committee (CAC) has voiced dismay over Mapusa MLA Francis D'Souza's indifferent attitude to their struggle against the proposed garbage disposal site in Cunchelim. The views were expressed when residents of Cunchelim met at the football ground on Sunday, to take stock of plans to acquire 32050 sq …
Due to increasing population, industrialization and urbanization a huge amount of solid waste is generated daily in cities and towns. In Guwahati city, the solid waste generated is disposed by Guwahati Municipal Corporation in the dumping site. The present investigation has been carried out to study the quality of solid …
The huge amount of solid waste generation and their disposal has become a major case of concern at present. In Guwahati city about 500 metric tonnes of solid wastes are generated daily. The solid wastes collected from the various parts of the city has different heavy metal content dependeing upon …
Expressing his dismay over the opposition to garbage disposal sites across the State, Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat said a time would come when Goans would have to dispose off their daily garbage within their compounds and verandahs. He favoured that mega housing projects consisting of 25 or more flats should …
The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) came under heavy fire from the High Court on Monday over sanitation and garbage litter in the city. Commenting on CCP inaction, the Court directed the Chief Secretary to convene a meeting on April 1 and decide exactly what will be done …
Dhaka city produces tonnes of solid wastes everyday. Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) does not have any sanitary landfill for ultimate disposal of solid waste and for a long time it is a common practice of DCC to dipose off solid waste in open low lying areas without any segregation andf …
Waste not, want not, is a maxim many of us were brought up on. It's a saying that we tend to forget in today's throwaway society, and though we are urged daily to save energy, when it comes to smaller things, it's surprising how lax we can become. One look …
Government plans to dump dry waste from Sonsodo to the KTC bus stand for land filling came in for strong opposition from the BJP, even as the Margao Municipal Council floated a tender of Rs 17 lakh for transportation of the waste. BJP's Fatorda MLA, Damu Naik on Sunday warned …
To ensure that the city's 3,000 tonnes of solid waste is disposed in a scientific manner and also to address the problem of lack of identified dumping yards, the BBMP will set up more landfills. The budget for 2008-2009 states that the BBMP has entered into a memorandum of understanding …
The Government has sanctioned a grant of Rs 35 lakh to Bicholim Muncipal Council (BMC), to purchase space for the disposal of garbage at Lakherim in Bordem-Bicholim. Speaking to reporters, BMC Mayor Satish Gaonkar stated that the garbage disposal site selected by BMC belongs to Bordem Comunidade. "The Bordem Comunidade …
Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao today said that the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) is currently facing crisis in collecting and disposing municipal solid waste due to non-availability of a dumping site. Replying to fears raised by the Panjim MLA Manohar Parrikar and Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo, Alemao stated …
Protesting against the Quepem Municipal Council's (QMC) failure to lift garbage, Opposition Councillors on Thursday served an eight-day ultimatum, threatening to dump the same in front of the municipality building. Councillors Rahul Pereira, Cathy Fernandes, Nana Gaonkar and Antoneitta Simoes led the villagers in the morcha which started from Quepem …
It is raining and Tirana's main rubbish dump in the Sharra valley, about five kilometres outside the capital, is covered in sticky mud. However, for Ardian Alu it is business as usual. Together with his two young sons, Mr Alu, a member of Albania's Roma community, sifts through piles of …
Energy companies cannot be charged a fully commercial price for disposing of nuclear waste without "killing the prospect" of a new generation of reactors, a senior UK government adviser will warn today. The analysis will spur opposition to Britain's contentious drive to expand its nuclear capacity. Gordon Brown, the prime …
