UNDER STUDY: A GAIA team at the compost yard of Mudichur panchayat near Tambaram on Tuesday.

By Guilherme Almeida

Collecting garbage on a door-to-door basis in the Commercial Capital is likely to be a costly affair for the cash-starved Margao Municipal Council.
As if the nightmares over Sonsodo weren't enough, the Civic body may have to pool all their resources in view of recent high court directives mandating Civic bodies to undertake door-to-door waste collection in segregated manner.

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Civic bodies in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region could soon start sharing landfill sites to create environment friendly dumping grounds, thereby reducing the requirement of land for garbage. "Two to three civic bodies can possibly have a landfill site in common where they can dump their garbage, however the land will be only for bio-degradable waste," Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad said. The sites would be earmarked for certain civic bodies on the basis of their geographical proximity to the landfills.

The city would be made free from the nasty sight of dustbins and the garbage strewn around them in just four months, said the commissioner, Mr Mukesh Kumar Meena, who returned from Hyderabad after attending a workshop there on sanitation. Talking to the reporters here, Mr Meena said already a pilot project has been launched in Ward Nos 6, 8, 9, 11, 18 and 19 on experimental basis and as it proved to be a successful venture, the project will be implemented all over the city in four months.

An estimated 1,800 hospitals in Maharashtra have not yet applied to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for authorisation to dispose off bio medical waste (BMW). Efforts have been initiated to know about the methods used to dispose off such waste as it can lead to a pollution problem of severe magnitude and endanger lives.

Governor Mr Gopalkrishna Gandhi urged students of animal and fishery sciences to extend their learning to the rural areas such as the Sunderbans where primitive methods of fishing is used. The new technique that the students have will save the rare organism of the coastal waters who are killed indiscriminately due to the fishing practice of the locals.

Many villages in the districts of Mangalore and Udupi have taken the lead in minimising the use of plastic. An impressed Ronald Anil Fernandes reports.

The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) is all set to commission its bio-reactor solid waste treatment plant on March 8 which it hopes will temporarily handle the on-going garbage disposal crises in the capital city. According to the CCP, the in-vessel anaerobic technology can scientifically cater to at least 20 tonnes of bio-degradable waste. Presently the bio-degradable waste quantum generated in the city is around 6