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New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is likely to join hands with the East Delhi Waste Processing Company Private Limited (EDWPCL).

In a non-descript slum in Jahangirpuri, the hair you throw into your bathroom bin transforms into wigs for idols, and the toys you dispose of make their way into second-hand markets.

* Visitors, picnickers complain of crows descending on parks in droves * Ornithologists suggest reducing waste heaps could help control crow population
* PU professor urges CDGL to take action

By Ali Usman

Staff Reporter

SALEM: The Jyothi Talkies East Street at Ammapet in the city has been stinking for a week now.

The residents say that garbage mounts could be seen on this street and in many other areas at Ammapet since the Corporation rarely collects and dispose them off.

Date: 23-Jan-09
Country: NEPAL
Author: Gopal Sharma

KATHMANDU - Tons of garbage dumped on the streets in Kathmandu have left the Nepali capital choking in what is proving a new headache for the embattled government headed by the Maoist former rebels.

There is danger of a serious epidemic hitting Kathmandu, as piles of stinking garbage remains uncollected in the capital city

Staff Reporter

ERODE: Even as the Bhavani Municipality takes steps to implement the solid waste management system, the Consumer Protection Council has asked the civic body for safe disposal of garbage.

At present the civic body dumps garbage at a 6.5-acre site near the Bhavani New Bus Stand and the rear end of the graveyard, near vegetable market.

PANJIM, JAN 16
In a sigh of relief, the rotting hotel waste will be cleared out from tomorrow (Saturday) as the three-day long impasse over the issue was finally resolved today following Government intervention.