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Trash to cash
Ragpicking, one would assume, is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Consider this: for 80 per cent of the 630 paper mills in India, waste paper is a key raw material.
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Colombo garbage to be dumped in Peliyagoda
The garbage problem that affected the Colombo city for the past few days has now been addressed by the Colombo Municipal Council as a new dumping site at Peliyagoda was found, Municipal Commissioner, Colombo, Bhadrani Jayawardena told the Daily News yesterday.
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DIY mission for clean city
Calcutta
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Polythene layer underneath Buriganga
A polythene stratum measuring about ten feet in thickness is said to be embedded under a certain stretch of the Buriganga. The river remains terribly polluted from domestic and industrial wastes disgorging into it, anyway. The polythene comes as an aggravating factor, especially given the shallowness of the river.
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Solid waste management project
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting at the Governor
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Sylhet city littered with wastes Shortage of dustbins blamed
Shortage of dustbins forces the people in Sylhet city to dump wastes into canals, drains and road-sides, polluting environment and posing threat to public health. Not a single dustbin has been installed in the city after Sylhet district town was upgraded into the city corporation about a decade ago, according to statistics available with the corporation.
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Solid waste management project
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting at the Governor
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Loopholes in city drain cleaning exercise resented
Rainwater inundating the roads is a regular feature in Guwahati, particularly in its central parts, during the rainy season. The Guwahatians hence lay more stress on keeping the city drains clean to make them able to carry the discharge of the rainy days. But the ongoing drain cleaning exercise undertaken by the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has been resented by most of the city residents.
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Sites for scientific disposal of debris
As many as 380 sites have been identified throughout the state for scientific disposal of muck and construction debris in accordance with the environment protection act.
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US agency to tap garbage Pirana dump site
AHMEDABAD : The city's garbage dump site at Pirana is being identified by the US Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) as a potential place for tapping methane the fuel used to run captive power plants. Ahmedabad will join the league of two other cities Mumbai and Pune whose landfill sites have been identified for a similar project.
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Design and development of cemented fill system: A solid waste management
Outstanding advances have been made in the technologies of using cemented fill throughout the world. The choice of a cemented fill system, its mix composition and their proportion depends on the stope geometry, strength requirement, strata condition, working condition and the economy of the mining method as a whole.
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Govt wants ban on plastic bags, SHC
The provincial environment department has proposed an amendment to the Prohibition of Manufacture, Sale and Use of Polythene Bags Ordinance, 2006, to ban the bags altogether irrespective of their thickness, the Sindh High Court was informed on Tuesday.
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Sri Lanka Supreme Court proposes two alternative sits for garbage dumping in Colombo
The Sri Lanka Supreme Court yesterday proposed two alternative sites, one at Mahara and another belonging to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority to dump accumulated garbage in Colombo.
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Nature and nurture: poverty and environment in Asia and the Pacific
This latest ADB publication provides an overview of poverty- environment interactions that show how poor communities in Asia and the Pacific have sought to break out of poverty through local actions that improved their environment.
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Marine litter: a global challenge
Marine litter is a global concern affecting all the oceans of the world. It poses environmental, economic, health and aesthetic problems that are rooted in poor solid waste management practices, lack of infrastructure, indiscriminate human activities and behaviours and an inadequate understanding on the part of the public of the potential consequences of their actions.
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MMRDA to aid civic bodies in scientific disposal of garbage
Mumbai The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to help 13 municipal councils in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in the scientific disposal of waste produced by these smaller towns.
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Messy garbage management
The Silk town is losing its charm thanks to TMCs negligence Overflowing garbage bins, roads strewn with garbage, stinking drainages and stray animals making hey out of the garbage strewn across the roads, all these sites make an eyesore to the citizens.