Raising a stink
Urban India sitting on a ticking garbage bomb For a few weeks in August, garden city Bangalore turned into a garbage city. This was after villagers living near the landfills in Mandur and Doddaballapur,
Urban India sitting on a ticking garbage bomb For a few weeks in August, garden city Bangalore turned into a garbage city. This was after villagers living near the landfills in Mandur and Doddaballapur,
As per the decisions taken by DPCC in its Board meeting held on 06.10.2012, Restaurants, Eating Houses,Sweet Shops, Dhabas and Hotels [RESDH Sector] & Banquet Halls /Party Lawns are required to comply
Bhubaneswar: In view of the failure of the government machinery and NGOs that have failed to achieve the target, the Palli Sabhas are likely to set the momentum for expeditious construction of toilets
Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has dubbed the war against municipal waste a ‘silent revolution’ towards creating a clean and healthy society. He was inaugurating the distribution of implements for the source level processing of household waste in the municipal area. The Minister stressed the need for combined action from all stakeholders to bring the campaign against waste to a success.
GUWAHATI, Sept 30 – The Guwahati Waste Management Company Private Ltd (GWMCPL), a subsidiary of the Hyderabad-based Ramky Enviro Engineers, has slapped some conditions to continue with its solid waste
Residents oppose move, set to block roads from Oct 2 As Bangaloreans gear up to segregate their garbage at source, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is considering composting wet waste in Mandur, the village used tili recently as a landfill for the City’s unsegregated garbage. But the BBMP is still not sure of the Mandur option because of the staunch opposition from the village’s residents, given their unsavoury tryst with trash till now. However, BBMP officials have been unable to identify any other sites for composting thus far.
Greenhouse gas emissions from conventional Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in developing countries contribute significantly to global climate change. Moving towards integrated waste management methods
Greenhouse gas emissions from conventional Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in developing countries contribute significantly to global climate change. Moving towards integrated waste management methods
Land near slaughter house used as unauthorised dumping yard Residential areas south of Government Engineering College here has become uninhabitable in the recent past as the rubbish, particularly the plastic waste, being burnt in the unofficial garbage dumping yard of the Corporation near Melapalayam modern slaughter house generates huge volume of smoke and gases almost round-the-clock.
Apartment owners can now relax a bit, with the Palike extending the deadline for them to make their own arrangements for garbage disposal. knowhow: Ramakanth, an expert in solid waste management, demonstrates segregation of garbage at a workshop in the City on Thursday. DH PhotoThe Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has categorised multi-storey residential and commercial apartments as bulk garbage generators. As per the norms, the apartment owners will have to find their own way to dispose of garbage, and the BBMP will only oversee the disposal mechanism.
44 tonnes of granules have piled up at shredding units Huge quantities of plastic granules remain unutilised in the city as the civic authorities could not get the approval of the Public Works Department for using them for road works. Conversion of plastic refuse into granules was introduced in the city as a method for managing plastic waste. The Kochi Corporation had earlier contracted Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) Kochi chapter for the collection of plastic refuse from the city flats where the agency had initiated a clean city campaign. The plastic thus collected were shredded to granules and stored at the shredding units in the city.
Next time you spot a pile of garbage, click a picture from your Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled smartphone and upload it on the BBMP website, triggering an instant alert message to the engineer concerned and remedial action. The Off-Site Real-Time (OSRT) system, launched by the Palike here on Tuesday, makes this possible on a pilot basis at JP Nagar, Shakambarinagar, Pattabhiramnagar and Byrasandra.
‘Palike engineers and corporators have ignored our efforts’ Members of various residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) dubbed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s garbage segregation method as top-down approach. Speaking at a consultation programme ‘People’s Participation in Urban Governance’ organised by CIVIC, an NGO, in the City recently, they said the Palike did not take RWAs into confidence on the matter.
Passers-by and motorists could not help but pause for a moment and observe the little set-up beside the Saphalyam Complex at Palayam in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday morning. A slightly crooked tree, with
Contractors have to upload pictures of the spot on Internet Mangalore City Corporation will soon adopt a technology to monitor on-line whether its contractors have cleared solid waste from cement bins and metal containers in the city daily, according to the Commissioner of the corporation Harish Kumar K. People will be able to see the work of contractors by logging on to a website, he told The Hindu .
KOLKATA, 25 SEPT: Disparities and confusion between municipal corporations in the state over recycling and waste management is preventing widespread progress in tackling pollution, some claimed at a meeting
DIBRUGARH: The Dibrugarh will soon have Rs 16 crore worth of waste management plant at Jokai area, 8 km away from Dibrugarh town. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) sponsored project would be constructed on acquired two hundred bighas of land and are expected to be completed, if everything goes well, by the mid 2013. Disclosing this at a press meet held at Circuit House today, the Dibrugarh MP and Union DoNER Minister, Paban Singh Ghatowar, hoped that the project would end the menace of garbage disposal, a long felt demand of local citizens as well Dibrugarh Municipal Board. Expressing serious concern over the perennial rain fed flood in the Dibrugarh town, Ghatowar stated that the ADB had agreed to give loan of Rs 150 crore for clearing and strengthening of main drain from Paltanbazar to Sessa River.
Puducherry Ministers meet Mayor, civic body officials Puducherry Ministers N.G. Pannirselvam and T. Thiagarajan were at the Coimbatore Corporation on Monday morning, ahead of the Council meeting, to learn about solid waste management programme. Mayor S.M. Velusamy said that the Puducherry Government representatives had come to the city after the Chief Minister Jayalalithaa awarded the ‘Best Corporation’ award to the Coimbatore Corporation.
A red-faced Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now instituted an inquiry into IL&FS Environment’s over-estimation of carbon credits that the scientifically-closed Gorai dumping ground could produce. In three years till June 2012, IL&FS had estimated that the solid waste management project at Gorai would generate 3,00,235 CER (Certified Emission Reduction) units, but only 14,477 units were received. CERs are units issued by the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board for emission reduction and can be traded in the international market. In 2009, based on IL&FS estimates, the BMC took an advance payment of Rs 24.5 crore from Asian Development Bank (ADB) to sell 4.3 lakh CER units over a five-year period.
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will be issuing a fresh circular for the solid waste management (SWM) of bulk waste generators on September 21. According to BBMP officials, the new circular is going to ensure that bulk waste generators like marriage halls, hotels and other such commercial properties will have to fend for themselves in clearing the garbage they generate. “We had previously told the hoteliers in a meeting that they need to look for alternative mechanism for disposing their waste and not burden the Palike. Accordingly, the circular also states the same facts with emphasis to look for affordable mechanisms to compost the wet waste on their own,” said a BBMP official.