Green sector set to paint the job town red
Joseph Vackayil Chennai: The green sector is set to bring about an employment revolution, as information technology did two decades ago. The new avenue of employment, termed
Joseph Vackayil Chennai: The green sector is set to bring about an employment revolution, as information technology did two decades ago. The new avenue of employment, termed
Industrial biotechnology has the potential to save the planet up to 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per year and support building a sustainable future, a new WWF report found.
Chairman of the Chief Minister's Task Force on Polio and Communicable Diseases Control, Dr Asad Ashraf, has directed the Director General Health and the EDO Health Lahore to assign duties to the students and officials of medical colleges, attached with different towns of Lahore, in the forthcoming anti-polio campaign for making the drive more effective.
KOCHI: Waste disposal remains an unsolved problem for Kochiites. Though the State Government has launched the slogan,
The United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) in his message to commemorate the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, on Wednesday, has urged for implementation of agreed environmental goals, targets and objectives for protection of the "Earth's Protective Shield." "Without action on climate change, the world faces profound social, economic and environmental disruption," warned
These rules may be called the Plastics (Manufacture, Usage and Waste Management) Rules, 2009. They shall come in to force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka yesterday said, he will not withhold the Waste Management Project, that was started in Dompe by his ministry, because of unfair demonstrations and picketing campaigns staged against it by a few groups.
In the rush to complete housing projects, environment seems to be the last thing on the Delhi Government
The Margao Municipal Council on Monday got a new Chief Officer, Prassana Acharya who has vowed to streamline and simplify the office procedure to make it people friendly and has proposed waste segregation at source to tackle the garbage problem. Acharya also disclosed plans to create a website of the Margao municipal Council at the earliest.
L. Renganathan Being implemented in 12 wards of Kulithalai Municipality GOOD EFFORT: Students on an exposure visit to the compost yard of Kulithalai Municipality that is implementing the solid waste management programme.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of World Bank, has pledged assistance to Waste Management Corporation (WMC) to eliminate waste collected across the country.
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In a bid to accommodate a wider expanse of community needs both within and outside of its organization, Sri Lanka
The effects of vermicompost on the rate of growth of a variety of ornamentals, vegetables and medicinal plants have been assessed in the greenhouse and some field crops.
The general concept behind this dissertation work is municipal solid waste management. Solid wastes and its composites affect the environment in several ways. And the major problems to be considered are the generation of leachate from solid waste dumping sites, which affects the groundwater aquifers.
COIMBATORE: The Rs.96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Scheme of the Coimbatore Corporation is well on course, according to Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.
CHENNAI: A three-member team of senior engineers of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has said that a nearly 65-acre site at Kuthambakkam, near Poonamallee, where a Solid Waste Management Facility is proposed, is not a suitable location for establishing the facility. This is because rainwater which collects in this area reaches the Chembarambakkam Lake, a major water source for Chennai.
BARC to help deal with waste The Bombay high court on July 21 set up a four-member committee to look into the feasibility of decentralized waste management in Mumbai. The court passed the order on a petition by the Smoke Affected Residents Forum, formed by Chembur residents, affected by pollution from the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai
The Punjab Environment Protection Department is establishing a climate change cell for offering technical advice to the stakeholders on climate change and carbon trading.
Dense population, high industrial growth, increasing pollutant loads and a lack of wastewater infrastructure in Dhaka have jointly created a serious threat to the city's sustainability. The industrial wastes caused severe degradation of the watersheds.