Waste pickers in New Delhi have made a business proposition that the municipal authorities should find difficult to refuse. They have said that they can generate more than Rs 12 crores a year from composting biodegradable wastes and save Rs 3 crores in transportation costs if their traditional role in garbage collection and segregation is recognised.

Travel and Tourism Association of Goa President Ralph De Souza said The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) had formulated four models for hotels of different bed capacities to take care of biodegradable waste generated by them.

Destruction of soil fertility can be prevented by separating the degradable garbage and plastic at the primary stage, said MLA C T Ravi.

The work of separating degradable and non-degradable waste has become difficult at the solid waste management plants since they are not being separated in houses themselves, he said during the inspection of Indavara waste management unit, recently.

Though this town has emerged as a major destination for health services, it lacks infrastructure for scientific disposal of the bio-medical waste generated by the mushrooming hospitals and clinics. The hazardous waste is transported to Ludhiana for being destroyed.

Jyoti Mhapsekar has ideas on low-cost ways to reduce the world's carbon burden. As president of the Parisar Vikas women's waste-pickers cooperative in Mumbai, India, and a climate activist, she has first-hand experience in an industry that is not only one of the cheapest ways to reduce emissions.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided shift all garbage dumps in the city underground. The move comes in view of beautification of the Capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Officials feel this will also ensure hygienic garbage collection.

New Delhi: The MCD plans to upgrade 1,000 public urinals to

The biodegradable polymers could be an alternative to the conventional plastic materials. These polymers being biodegradable can be disposed in safe and ecologically sound manner, through disposal processes (waste management) like

IWST will use nanotechnology to create this unique material for furniture, car interiors

Unique material: Test samples of the wood-polymer composites at the Institute of Wood Science and Technology in Bangalore

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

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