Jaipur: A division bench of high court has issued a show cause notice to state government to explain why user charge has been added in the electricity bill when the door-to-door collection of solid waste has not yet started. The user charge is a tax which is meant for disposal …
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) will start collecting hazardous waste from industrial units in Bangalore. K.S. Vamanacharya, Chairman, KSPCB, said in a release, “The board in way to reach to the industries is to make them aware of the pollution which is being caused by indiscriminate disposal of hazardous …
Waste-free Maradu’, an ambitious programme to free the municipal area of waste heaped on the roadside and curb unsustainable waste disposal practices has ended up drawing a lot of flak from residents. However, the municipal authority has defended its programmes, launched about a year ago. The municipal authority’s pipe compost, …
PONDA: Environment Minister Alina Saldanha has urged people to act responsibly to solve the growing garbage problem in the State. She was addressing a function at the Goa Vidhyaprasarak Mandal’s (GVM) plastic-free campaign at Ponda on Thursday. As part of the drive, students from the GVM’s schools were asked to …
Margao Municipal Council’s solid waste management plant finally stands commissioned at Sonsodo. Open dumping of waste is now a thing of the past. But, the civic body has a long way to go in tackling tons of waste generated in the commercial capital, reports Guilherme Almeida After a bitter experience …
Chennai Corporations plans to introduce specially-designed bags; move follows study by civic body The Chennai Corporation has planned to replace garbage bins with specially-designed bags to facilitate better collection of refuse in the city. The new system is intended to prevent ragpickers from spoiling the area around a garbage bin, …
The Poorna river, passing through Tripunithura, has become a dumpyard of organic, toilet and slaughter house wastes. Sensing the environmental damages caused by the pollutants, the Balagokulam Kochi Mahanagaram members have come forward against the practice on the river on which the ‘Thoni Ezhunelipu’ ritual, held as part of Poornathrayeesha …
Solid waste produced in Tamil Nadu a day could be put to use for generating electricity, said N.Ramachandran, Vice Chanellor, Periyar Maniammai University (PMU), on Tuesday. At the two-day workshop on municipal solid waste for renewable energy production at PMU, Mr. Ramachandran said 12,504 tonnes of solid waste is produced …
Tardy projects at Deonar, Mulund sites irk BMC The civic administration, fed up with the delay in partial closure of the Deonar dumping ground and setting up of a methanisation plant at the Mulund dumping ground, is being forced to to consider cancelling the contracts of companies handling these sites. …
The ministry of urban development has released data that states that Indians generate 115,000 million tons of municipal solid waste every day. Unfortunately, metro cities including Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Delhi and Pune are no longer able to cope with these mountains of trash. Mumbai alone is generates over 5,500 tons …
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board head office informed The Coimbatore Corporation is not taking any steps for the effective implementation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, the Coimbatore office of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has told its head office. The contents of the report the District Environmental Engineer, …
MARGAO: Margao Municipal Council’s action on the garbage management seems to be progressing at a snail’s pace. In fact, the civic body has shown no urgency in finalising an action plan on the door-to-door waste collection till date. While the door-to-door waste collection concept is yet to be tendered, the …
Following the Bombay High Court’s stay on usage of the Kanjurmarg landfill for dumping municipal solid waste, the civic administration claimed wrong evidence was produced in court during the trials. According to Additional Municipal Commissioner Mohan Adtani, who gave the BMC’s explanation on the judgment on standing committee chairman Rahul …
PANJIM: Velsao panchayat in Cortalim constituency will be the first to have door to door collection of dry waste as part of a pilot project by Department of Science, Technology & Environment in collaboration with the Directorate of panchayats. Speaking to media persons, after the meeting with officials of the …
Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka laid the foundation stone for an integrated plant for garbage segregation and generating power from biogas, as part of efforts to address the garbage menace, in the City on Monday. The project will come up on the vacant site near the NMKRV College at a …
The Chennai Corporation will strengthen the management of biomedical waste in the city shortly. At a meeting attended by representatives of the Corporation, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the Department of Environment among others, the Corporation was asked to improve scientific disposal of biomedical waste. This constitutes over …
Corporators on Wednesday raised the issue of BMC not being able to collect garbage regularly, which has apparently led to waste piling up in their wards. Shiv Sena corporator Krishna Vishwasrao raised the point of order at the standing committee meeting. “The additional municipal commissioner had visited the F-North ward …
JAIPUR: The contract firm responsible for door-to-door garbage collection in the city is finding it difficult to implement the scheme due to the ongoing protest of Rajasthan Mehtar Mazdoor Sangh. After receiving notices twice to start the work in the respective wards, the firm under police protection started collecting garbage …
The United Democratic Front (UDF) has decided to launch a massive awareness campaign across the State to promote the subsidy schemes formulated by the government for waste management at the local level. The UDF extended its support to the government decision to utilise abandoned quarries as landfills for municipal wastes …
Civil society urges govt, HC to check violation of environment rules by hotels. The state government and private hotels situated in the famous tourist resort of Pahalgam in South Kashmir have not been paying any heed to the Municipal Solid Waste (Handling and Management) Rules, 2000, under the Environment (Protection) …
