The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) of Sri Lanka has planned to start a new waste recycling process from next month.

Ahmedabad-based Centre for Environment Education (CEE) is going to take up environmental issues and begin work for conservation of environment.

The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) is going to form a committee to create an inventory of e-wastes following frequent failure to collect these wastes in the state.

Mumbai: Most Mumbaikars are unwilling to segregate waste before disposal, according to a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Despite the belief that waste segregation at source is the best way to handle solid waste and limit health hazards, 80% of those surveyed were not willing to do it. The survey revealed that generating less waste and improving the recycling capacity are other ways which people felt can help manage waste. A meagre 8% were in favour of a user charge.

As if a pile of policies and laws on waste management were not enough, the government is drafting one more policy to deal with the garbage.

Rs. 100-crore project to be completed by mid-2014; will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram

Preliminary civil works for a waste-to-energy power plant began at Venkatamangalam village on Monday. The non-incineration facility will produce power from solid waste generated in Tambaram and Pallavaram municipalities. A bhoomi pooja was performed at the 50-acre site at Venkatamangalam, located around 15 kilometres from Tambaram and coming under Kattankulathur panchayat union, Kancheepuram district.

Designers of everything from mobile phones to electric car batteries should make their products far easier to recycle to offset soaring demand for metals, two United Nations reports recommended on

PANJIM: The Goa Government has tabled the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Bill, 2013 to levy cess till 2 per cent of the sale value on products and substances causing pollution.

The bill defines these products as: “those which upon their handling, consumption, utilization, combustion, or movement or transportation causes pollution of the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and other environmental resources and causes emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases or discharge other types of effluents...”

If you have e-waste in your neighbourhood and do not know how to dispose it without causing any damage to the environment, just log in to www.ewaste.in.

Vellore Collector P. Sankar commissioned a plastic crushing centre established at a cost of Rs.