The Suchitwa Mission has recommended setting up at Brahmapuram a mega plant capable of processing about 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste generated daily in Kochi corporation areas and nearby municipalities. Experts associated with the mission told The Hindu on Monday that the plant will work on a German technology …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has directed the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) to stop dumping of unsegregated waste at Assagao Plateau and to initiate various measures to tackle garbage in Mapusa town within a month. The GSPCB has threatened to initiate stringent legal action under the Environment (Protection) …
Eight local bodies in Ernakualm district, including the Kochi Corporation and seven municipalities, have failed to renew the authorisation under the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 for collection, segregation, transportation and suitable disposal of municipal waste. The municipalities that have not renewed the authorisation provided by the …
Jammu: No kind of Municipal waste would be allowed to be dumped in river Tawi in view of its heritage and water usage value. This was decided at a high level meeting of officers chaired by Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi ud Din today. Addressing the …
Bio-medical waste constitutes an estimated 1.5 to 2 per cent of municipal waste in the urban areas of India. The Bio-Medical Waste Rules-1998 have been in place for the past 13 years but there are various challenges in the implementation of the system, some being lack of capacity among generators …
World Bank Consultant Sandra Cointreau feels governments need to educate citizens about the importance of municipal solid waste management projects and prepare them to pay for their maintenance. Unless people start paying for the multi-crore projects being taken up to improve environment, the solid waste management projects cannot be sustained, …
KOCHI: If you are a ‘nasty Kochiite’ who dumps household garbage on the roadside under the cover of night, do not be surprised if you are caught red-handed tonight. Starting Thursday, three special squads of health officials will patrol the streets of Kochi every night to nab those who dump …
LUCKNOW: If projections of UP Jal Nigam are anything to go by, then the state capital may have its streets free of callously dumped domestic waste by November when the much-awaited municipal solid waste treatment plant finally starts working. Executed under the supervision of UP Jal Nigam, the plant is …
Health risk posed by piling household garb-age due to the GHMC strike has become a contentious issue, with some of the opinion that it will not lead to any epidemic, and others contending that it heightens the risk of transmission of diseases. Experts say that there is no cause for …
Hold dharna demanding processing of entire garbage at solid waste plant, charge Municipal Corporation with inaction The residents of Dadumajra today sat on a dharna near the garbage processing plant against the filling up of the dumping ground at a fast pace. The residents demanded that garbage, instead of being …
With the three landfill sites in the city full to the brim and every resident continuing to account for at least half-a-kilogram of municipal waste everyday, Delhi is staring at a sanitation crisis. The Delhi government has informed the Delhi High Court that it has identified, in consultation with the …
Everyday kitchen and garden waste can be recycled judiciously with a little effort. It can also pay rich dividends, some experiments in the city show. The Chennai Corporation has offered assistance to large apartment complexes by offering to collect non-biodegradable waste and excess manure. In poorer neighbourhoods, the civic body …
Surat: If all goes well, Surat will be the first city in the state to generate electricity from garbage. The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has moved a proposal for generating 12 MW electricity from 600 metric tonne of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Mumbai already has such a project. SMC had …
KOCHI: At a time when the residents of Fort Kochi are choked with the garbage heaps, the Corporation is sitting over `17.20 lakh sent to the local body as a part of the payment for its implementation. The `43-lakh Fort Kochi Zero Waste project was announced by the Corporation with …
The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the anaerobic digestion and composting process for disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) on economical aspects. Economic evaluation includes 3 major costs: (i) capital cost, (ii) operation and maintenance cost and (iii) reinvestment cost.
Bangalore: Karnataka lags behind Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh in using municipal solid waste as a co-processing (raw materials as a source of energy) in industries. Co-processing can be used in cement kilns, power plants and integrated iron and steel industry and can replace natural resources and fossil fuels like …
Garbage disposal will cost a fortune to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike in future. The local body will have to spend Rs 350 crore for collection, transportation and disposal of garbage in the next two years, Home Minister R?Ashoka said here on Monday. Ashoka, who is also district in charge …
Agency running Brahmapuram plant decides to opt out of responsibility Centre for Environment and Development has served the three-month notice period Plant site already overflowing with garbage collected from various parts of the city KOCHI: The Centre for Environment and Development (CED), the agency that has been running the solid …
Panjim: Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) which has been desperately trying to sort out its garbage problem by streamlining garbage collection and disposal is confronted with a new problem
