Protest against move for waste treatment plant
PATHANAMTHITTA: The 600-odd families of Kandamkeri at Chumathra are up in arms against the proposal to set up a waste treatment plant there by the Tiruvalla municipality.
PATHANAMTHITTA: The 600-odd families of Kandamkeri at Chumathra are up in arms against the proposal to set up a waste treatment plant there by the Tiruvalla municipality.
Chandigarh: Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia has expressed concern that while urban local bodies spend a huge amount every year on garbage collection, transportation and disposal, the larger problem of the municipal solid waste management in a scientific manner remains unattended to.
Small and medium enterprises based at Adityapur Industrial Area (AIA) will contribute more than Rs 3 crore to develop the Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited (AACL). Senior AACL officials said that the entrepreneurs would provide Rs 20,000 for each acre that is being used by them to develop the proposed project. The units would be paying the amount in three instalments.
A unique
SHILLONG: Admitting that the Dorbar Shnong have failed to manage the garbage collection system in their respective localities, Synjuk Ki Rangbah Shnong (SKRS) president HP Oflyn Dohling has said that it would be futile to depend too much on the Dorbar Shnong to deal with the problem.
D. Radhakrishnan Project expected to be completed by the end of 2010 Focus on safe disposal: A truck carrying garbage entering the municipal dump yard at Theetukkal near Udhagamandalam.
Mumbai Even as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation
A Composting unit over a drain may seem a little bit of a surprise for many. But, welcome to Borda in the jurisdiction of Margao Municipal Council where a composting unit is presently under construction on a water nullah. While work on the composting unit has raised many an eyebrows, the Margao Municipal council has denied that work on the unit is being carried out by the Civic body.
K.V. Prasad Drive launched in Mayor
CUTTACK: Solid waste management, one of the major civic problems of the millennium city, seems set for a huge boost with plans mooted for setting up a common facility for proper handling and treatment of the waste generated in the Twin City of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
JAIPUR: The Mahindra World City Jaipur is among the 16 founding projects of the Climate Positive Development Program under the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) that will support the development of large-scale urban projects that demonstrate cities can grow in ways that are
Pune The revenue department officials of the collectorate have been assessing five sites in the city, which can be used for solid waste management, and thus ease pressure off the present garbage dump at Urali Devachi. It may be recalled that Collector Chandrakant Dalvi has assured the villagers of Urali Devachi that an alternative site would be made available in seven months time.
CHENNAI: Conservancy agency Neel Metal Fanalca will introduce a new system of source segregation of garbage from June 15 in four zones of the Chennai Corporation, according to its vice-president G.Thirugnanasambandam.
Responding to the show-cause notices issued by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), a number of industrialists on Wednesday clarified their position with regard to their failure to meet the safe environmental standards, a source in the agency said.
Composting of leaf litter using the epigeic, exotic earthworm Eisenia fetida and the microbial kinetize (Quikompost) was carried out in order to compare their efficacies in waste management. The quantity of leaf litter composted and the biomass (earthworm/microbial) recovered after composting were increased with increasing the quantity of earthworm/microbial kinetizer.
Waterborne diseases
In a bid to introduce Solid Waste Management System in the city, the Noida Authority has identified three locations for landfill sites. In a preliminary discussion with HUDCO, the Noida Authority has asked the technical consultants to provide a detailed project report on the latest technology and the viable options available for disposal of wastes.
PANJIM (HND): Wendell Rodricks, Chairman of Green Goa Works in a recently held press conference in Panjim, informed all villagers to commence weekly garbage collection programme and offered assistance of Green Goa Works for this programme and its execution.
Bali once had a reputation as a tropical idyll. But the unfettered expansion of mass tourism on the island has created mountains of trash, overwhelming the ability of the Balinese, who traditionally wrapped and served food in palm leaves or other biodegradable plant material, to manage the mess. Plastic and other waste has simply been dumped or burned.
AHMEDABAD: Godrej group's proposed 270-acre Ahmedabad township Godrej Garden City has made it to the 16 founding projects being taken up globally by Clinton Climate Initiative's Climate Positive Development Programme (CPDP) for clean and green urban development.