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  • Corlim educates masses on plastic menace

    Corlim panchayat conducted

  • Make Cortalim plastic free: Mauvin

    Cortalim MLA and Deputy Speaker Mauvin Godinho has urged residents from Cortalim to work together to make the constituency free of plastic. Addressing the panchayat body, Mr Godinho unveiled his new ambitious task and directed all the five panchas to work together to keep their constituency free of plastic. Mr Godniho has decided to launch the plastic drive campaign on May 24 at 10.30 am with the main function at Cansaulim, near T B Cunha sports complex.

  • Trash And Burn: Singapore's Waste Problem

    Creeping out of their condo after dark carrying illicit bags of garbage was not part of the life Sarah Moser and her husband envisioned for themselves before moving to tropical Singapore. But with recycling in its infancy on the island, such nocturnal escapades have become normal for the two academics. Each week they dodge watchful security guards, barking dogs and suspicious neighbours to carry rubbish they cannot recycle at home to recycling bins far down the road.

  • Italian leaders head to Naples to check out garbage crisis

    Giovanni Marchitelli has something to show Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi when Italy's leader arrives Wednesday: a month's worth of garbage piled next to his pizzeria. Marchitelli, 64, hopes that Berlusconi will force local officials to solve the continuing problem due to full landfills, or his family's pizzeria will be out of business. "We can't stand to work anymore because of the garbage smell," he says. "People won't stop and eat because of the garbage."

  • Garbage set on fire

    Angry residents in Naples attacked fire-fighters trying to extinguish burning garbage in the trash collection crisis in the southern Italian city, said authorities. Fire-fighters said the residents threw stones. No injuries were reported. Fire-fighters said the police had to escort them while putting out fires. Premier Silvio Berlusconi would preside over a Cabinet meeting in Naples this week to resolve the garbage collection crisis, which broke out in December 2007 when collectors stopped picking up trash because there was no more room at the dumps.

  • WOW! There is money in garbage now

    WOW ! That is what you would probably say when someone pays you for your garbage. It is also a new system

  • Hotel garbage collection from tomorrow

    Door-to-door collection of garbage from hotels in the Commercial Capital by a private agency will begin on a trial basis for 10-15 days only from Wednesday The agency, Municipal Waste Collection Committee, on Monday had a meeting with the Chief Officer Y B Tawde and Chairperson Johnson Fernandes, wherein the civic body agreed upon to make available one municipal truck, driver and labourers to the agency to lift garbage from the city hotels. The Chief Officer is believed to have rejected the proposal for payment of money to the agency.

  • Blanket ban on plastic bags not possible in Delhi: panel

    Describing plastic bags as highly economical and popular among residents, a government panel has said it is not possible to put a blanket ban on its use in the Capital. The panel consisting of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) officials, which recently submitted its report to the Delhi High Court, has also put a question mark on Delhi Government's decision to promote degradable plastic bags.

  • No escape from smoke, stench here

    Residents of a few pockets in the Okkiyam Thoraipakkam village panchayat, have been suffering due to the round-the-clock burning of plastics, kitchen waste and other forms of garbage. The village panchayat is among the 25 rural local bodies of St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union (also called St. Thomas Mount Block). On the city's fringes and located off Rajiv Gandhi Salai or Information Technology Corridor, it has been witnessing massive development in construction of software and residential complexes.

  • UK plans bin tax' to recycle garbage

    Britons may have to pay

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