Ministry of Environment has signed an agreement to assign MT Hojgaard, a company from Denmark to implement the establishment of the first regional waste management centre in the Maldives North Regi

The urban cleanliness and solid waste management systems are likely to bring the old neighbours together for the improvement in urban planning and its positive impacts on environment.

The Department of Environment on Monday fined four government hospitals in the capital Tk 4 lakh for violating medical waste management rules.

The High Court of Karnataka on Monday asked the residents of Bangalore to hold corporators and ward committee members responsible for uncleared garbage in their respective wards.

During the hearing of a batch of public interest litigations on the garbage crisis in the City, the Division Bench comprising Justices N Kumar and B V Nagarathna said ward committees headed by corporators have a greater role in addressing garbage problem.

In an unprecedented drive against plastic waste disposal at Chinchinim village, local citizens, youth, clubs, maritime institutions and the local panchayat body joined hands to clear the village roadsides of the tons of plastic waste on Sunday.

The entire road from Assolna bridge to Orlim bridge and right up to Digafond near Francon’s maritime academy was cleared of plastic waste disposed off by unscrupulous elements.

Owing to the state government's slack response to garbage treatment problems at the city's dumping grounds, BMC has now decided to take matters into its own hands.

Some 40 people stand ankle-deep in used plastic bottles in the yard of a recycling station in Taipei, stamping them flat in the first step of a process that will transform the junk into usable good