Solid wastes being discarded in open dumping grounds or used as land fill in low-lying areas is causing soil run-off and groundwater pollution. The Pollution Control Board has conveyed this to the GHMC on various occasions, but to no avail. Water analyses around these sites have detected heavy elements, high …
Chennai Corporation has planned to demarcate three new 100-acre sites on the outskirts for the city's solid waste management. The district administrations of the adjoining districts, including Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur, have kicked off their search for the right spot for pieces of land suitable for solid waste management based on …
MUMBAI: A year after it was launched with much fanfare by the BMC, the garbage segregation project has seen a success rate of just about 15%, said officials. On an average, said an official from the solid waste management drive, just about 500 kg of dry waste is segregated in …
High-rise buildings and mismanagement of solid waste in the city are two factors adding to greenhouse gases, increasing the local temperature and pollution in the city. Experts who presented different aspects of urban planning and creating low carbon cities at the conference on Low Carbon Cities at the Indian Institute …
Residents Flout Heritage Law, Illegal Structures Rise Within 100M Of Monument Khirki village in south Delhi has no time for heritage laws. From the roof of its Tughlaq-era Khirki Masjid, you can see workers with hammers at work inside houses and scaffoldings raised along the walls of buildings creeping up …
Muttambalam area selected for the pilot project. The Kottayam municipality has launched a waste management system that involves door-to-door collection of garbage. Muttambalam (or Ward No. 18), a residential area in Kanjikuzhy, has been selected for the pilot project of the programme. The programme got under way on Thursday with …
City residents seem to have reconciled themselves to the fact that the garbage generated in the household is their own responsibility. The city Corporation is also now promoting home-based garbage processing. The small amounts of waste generated in households can be easily processed within the compound. Many options are now …
Arrangements made to collect plastics from students too From next week, Wednesdays will be plastic collection day in the city. Every Wednesday conservancy staff on tricycles, who collect door-to-door garbage, will specifically ask for plastic waste, especially thin carry bags and covers in which commodities such as pulses and condiments …
Residents resort to dumping of waste in open spaces Sustainable disposal of residential and municipal waste appears a distant dream for the district. Residents of the city and neighbouring municipalities are at a loss as to what may be done with heaps of garbage springing up even along thoroughfares despite …
For proper cleanliness of the city the state government is banking upon the proposed door-to-door collection of the garbage through Public-Private Partnership ( PPP). However, the project announced many years ago is still on the paper. After failed attempts in attracting private companies despite extending the date for submission of …
The country’s nuclear research programme could get a major fillip with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre proposing to build two new research reactors under the 12th Five Year Plan. The reactors will be used for testing materials for new power plants, radioisotope production and manpower training, among others. “We have …
Operating agency to pull out of waste management project The city Corporation has more to worry than the people's agitation and legal tangle in the operation of the beleaguered Vilappilsala solid waste treatment plant. With the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) deciding to back out from the technical support …
Reopening the waste treatment plant at Villappilsala at the earliest, entrusting its running to competent agencies, and rescheduling door-to-door waste collection to the evenings. These are some of the proposals in a 10-point agenda chalked out by the State unit of the WWF- India to resolve the issue of solid …
LUCKNOW: Even after five years of its sanctioning by the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme, the much-awaited municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment plant in Lucknow remains a non-starter. There is no concrete affirmation as when the city will be free of garbage that gets …
New system for conservancy inspectors and assistant executive engineers launched As part of its efforts to improve and streamline garbage collection in the city, the Chennai Corporation has launched a new system for its conservancy inspectors and assistant executive engineers. Deputy Commissioner R.Anandakumar said that the over 200 CIs and …
Town area included in the first phase of the campaign Kottayam Municipality's initiative in collecting segregated household waste from the source will begin on Wednesday. According to V.K. Anil Kumar, chairman of the Municipal Standing Committee on Health, in the first phase, the town area of the Municipality has been …
SHILLONG: The government of Meghalaya is making efforts to overcome the problems of disposal of garbage. In this regard, the State Government has decided to use the latest technology to covert the garbage and other forms of wastes into electricity. Recently the State Government has floated an expression on interest …
Despite sustained public protests and lawsuits against the Timarpur-Okhla waste-to-energy incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar, the beginning of trial runs this January 2 has invited the ire of the residents of this densely populated area. “The incinerator is located in a residential area which is surrounded by university, schools, hospitals and …
puzzled crusaders collect river samples for tests, JSPCB ‘ignorant’ and unfazed. It may look like the surf’s up in Subernarekha. But environmentalists are anything but enchanted by the extraordinary appearance of the river that has earned its charming name from erstwhile gold deposits near its origin in Piska, Ranchi. Gallons …
Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose. With the fear of losing their means of living looming over them, waste pickers from across the country have opposed Delhi government’s plan to install three waste to energy plants in the city. “How can the proposed energy …
