BBMP to soon float tenders for constructing 500 toilets

The acute shortage of public toilets in the City has cast a doom on the pedestrian subways as people have turned them into urinals. The pedestrian subways in the City are in a pathetic condition with people urinating and spitting there. The BBMP has apparently turned a blind eye to the issue despite public complaints that the subways have been in a bad state for years.

Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui assured the members of Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) of early removal of garbage, currently left unattended in the tannery zone of Korangi Industrial

Of the 20-25 tonnes of wet waste generated in Panaji everyday, 10-12 tonnes come from the hotel industry alone, a study has revealed.

Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a cement company to use the plastic waste generated across the state, as fuel for its manufacturing plant.

Vasavdatta Cement, a company with its plant in Karnataka, would be procuring the plastic waste collected by the state agencies and village panchayats from Goa.

China has extended technological help to build the first of its kind waste-to-energy plant in Narela Bawana, North Municipal Corporation announced on Tuesday.

Private concessionaire Ramky, which is investing hundreds of crores into the plant, claimed that the new technology would help them keep the landfill sites from overflowing.

TRICHY: The recent fire at the Ariyamangalam composite dump yard here has forced the authorities to come up with a viable solution to the issues plaguing the five-decade-old site.

After repeated complaints by the three Municipal Corporations about the absence of any new sanitary landfill site besides the existing ones which have been exhausted, some good news for them is in

GURGAON: The private concessionaire operating the solid waste management plant at Bandhwari has assured the city municipal corporation authorities that the plant's capacity will gradually increase,

The Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) on Monday said it had instituted an award for best practice in effective management of solid waste for its member companies.

KATHMANDU, 28 MAY: In a first of its kind initiative to clean Mount Everest, a joint army team of India and Nepal has collected over 4,000 kilogrammes of garbage that was polluting the slopes of th