The government and BBMP would finalise the SWM proposals submitted by over 35 companies by March 1

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will urge the communities living around the Mandur landfill to allow dumping of garbage for some more time until alternate arrangements are made. The communities had set January 31 as the deadline to stop dumping garbage. This is not the first time that the BBMP has sought time from the communities to continue dumping in the landfills there.BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah told reporters here on Thursday that the civic body needs another year at least to have scientific solid waste management practices in place.

As the Local Councils in Colombo’s suburbs have failed to collect the garbage of their ratepayers, hundreds of thousands of people are at the mercy of their councils to dispose tons of their garba

Households Not Sorting Waste Before Disposal, Contractors Doing A Poor Job

New Delhi: They were set up across several parts of the city with much fanfare in 2009 but the green and blue dustbins that were meant to facilitate waste segregation are being used like ordinary bins now. Even at the household level, waste segregation is a failed initiative. Of Delhi’s three municipal zones, one has issued a tender for waste collection and segregation as recently as last week. The other two corporations blame the project’s failure on lack of cooperation from residents and underperformance by private concessionaires.

The health officer at the Quepem primary health centre has directed the occupants of multi-storeyed buildings on the banks of the Paroda water canal at Quepem town to set up garbage treatment plant

Bangalore: The high court on Monday asked BBMP to provide details about the actual waste generated by Bangalore daily.

A special division bench of Justices N Kumar and BV Nagarathna directed the civic agency to assess garbage generated in the city from February 1 for a period of 30 days by weighing the waste at dumping yards and disposal sites. The court asked a representative each from the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation and the NGO sector to keep track of the exercise and affix their signatures on the daily recordings.

Coastline Is Most Prone To Pollution In 1st Week Of Jan

An India-UN survey has revealed that solid waste disposed off on the beaches of Sindhudurg is voluminous enough to pose a serious threat to the district’s rich marine biodiversity. What is true there is true in the rest of coastal Maharashtra as well. It is in winter, especially in January, that tourists in large numbers descend on the beaches of Devgad, Malvan and Vengurla—three talukas that are the state’s prime holiday destinations.

The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to file a status report on garbage generated in each ward in the City, and form ward committees at the earliest.

Hearing a batch of petitions filed by Kavitha Shankar, G R Mohan and Environment Support Group (ESG), the Division Bench comprising Justices N Kumar and B V Nagarathna directed the Palike to complete the process of appointment of members to the ward committees within 15 days.

While officials of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) are at their wit’s end to end the menace of illegal dumping of garbage in City, the residents of Jnanabharathi ward in Rajarajeshwari Nagar constituency, have, however, found a novel way to nip such unheeding adventurers at bud.

What better than drive home the message in the only lingo they would sit up and listen.
A few residents and shop owners in the ward have put up display boards with ugly and abusive warnings at junctions prone to illegal garbage dumping.

The Hatirjheel-Begunbari project, which has instantly become a popular recreational spot for the city dwellers for its panoramic beauty, faces an impending threat of widespread littering, reports U

NEW DELHI: Coming to the rescue of hawkers forced to sell their wares in filthy and unhygienic condition, the Delhi high court has asked the south municipal corporation to immediately remove all ga