Chandigarh, September 11 : The residents of Dadumajra, irked by the inaction of the Municipal Corporation (MC) to tackle the garbage-dumping woes, have threatened to block garbage trucks coming to the site.

Area councillor Kamlesh says,

Green Brigade Up In Arms
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London/New Delhi: Garbage is literally flying and hitting the roof thousands of kilometres away. A TV report about household waste collected weekly across Britain for recycling being shipped and dumped in India has the green brigade up in arms.

As part of Britain

London,

Household waste collected weekly across Britain for recycling is being shipped and dumped in India, according to an investigation by ITV

Some parts in Sylhet city are littered with household wastes due to lack of dustbins, posing a threat to public health and causing nuisance to local people.
Residents of Dakkhin Kajal Shah, Bhatalia, Madhu Shaheed, Bilpar and Lala Dighirpar areas in the city are facing problems as there is no dustbin for a long time.
As a result, inhabitants of these areas have to scatter their household wastes on the roadsides because there is not a single dustbin to dump the wastes, local people said.

Pune, September 4 Here

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USEFUL: The Japanese delegation that visited the garbage yard at Ramaiyanpatti near Tirunelveli on Thursday.

TIRUNELVELI: A Japanese team on Thursday visited Tirunelveli Corporation

Mobile phone operator Warid Telecom has cleared the Banani Lake of floating garbage to give a pleasant look for recreation of the city people, said a press release.
The company, the fourth largest mobile phone operator by number of subscribers, spent about Tk 1 crore to clean and beautify the severely polluted lake which was causing health hazards to the residents in the surrounding areas, the release added.
Warid took up the clean-up programme with the slogan

Scores of people have protested in Beijing against a garbage disposal' plant that they say has been releasing noxious fumes into the air, with two demonstrators hurt in a scuffle with security officia

Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever, US scientists said on Wednesday, with particular melting in the Chukchi Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast.

This year's Arctic ice melt could surpass the extraordinary 2007 record low in the coming weeks. Last year's minimum ice level was reached on Sept. 16, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.