Environment

38 million pieces of plastic waste found on uninhabited South Pacific island

One of the world’s most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2017
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Environment, Pollution, Plastics, Pacific Islands, Marine Life, Marine Ecosystems, Garbage
Solid Waste

Minimise waste - Save wealth

Questions have been raised about methodology adopted in Swachh Survekshan Report 2017. Instead of encouraging sustainable practices like segregation at source and recycle and reuse, the survey seems to have rewarded cities that are focussing on collection of unsegregated waste and transporting it to landfills.

Publication Date: 
12/05/2017
India Environment Portal
Tags:
Municipal Solid Waste, Urban Sanitation, Garbage, Landfill, Waste Management
Solid Waste

Clean Your Backyard

Urban India is now the world's third largest garbage generator. But the amount of waste generated is not as much of an issue as the fact that over 45 million tonnes (or 3 million trucks worth) of garbage is untreated and disposed of by municipal authorities each year in an unhygienic manner.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2017
India Environment Portal
Tags:
Urban Sanitation, Municipal Solid Waste, Garbage, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Waste Management, Waste Disposal, Landfill
Solid Waste

Waste management corp to collect data on garbage

PANJIM: In a first step towards making Goa garbage free by 2020, the recently constituted Goa State Waste Management Corporation (GSWMC) has decided to collect accurate data about garbage generatio

Publication Date: 
05/05/2017
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Goa, Waste Management, Garbage, Panchayats, Waste Disposal, Solid Waste
Sanitation

Garbage piles make Swachh Bharat survey trash Lucknow

The state capital has fared poor with 269th rank in Swachh Bharat Ranking 2017, scoring only 43% marks in overall score of 2000.

Publication Date: 
05/05/2017
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Garbage, Lucknow (T), Waste Treatment, Sanitation
Solid Waste

Burning of garbage goes on unabated

The banned practice of garbage burning continues unabated in the city. Strangely, the Municipal Corporation chooses to ignore the banned practice.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2017
Minna Zutshi
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Punjab, Ludhiana (T), Garbage, Municipal Corporation, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Compensation, Solid Waste
Solid Waste

Accra generates 3,000 metric tonnes of waste in a day

Director of Waste Management at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Anthony Mensah, speaking on Eezy FM’s Morning Edition in Accra disclosed that the city of Accra generates 3,000 metric tonnes

Publication Date: 
27/04/2017
Ghana Web (Ghana)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Ghana, Garbage, Waste Management, Africa
Solid Waste

Durban court orders EnviroServ to stop dumping at its Shongweni site

Waste management company EnviroServ have been barred from dumping at their Shongweni landfill site by the Durban High Court.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2017
Times Live (South Africa)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Landfill, Garbage, Waste Disposal, South Africa, Court, Health Effects, Africa
Environment

Morocco seizes 420 tonnes of plastic bags in year since ban

RABAT, Morocco - Moroccan authorities have seized more than 420 tonnes of plastic bags in the year since the entry into force of a law prohibiting their use, the government said Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2017
ENCA (South Africa)
Tags:
Environment, Plastics, Non Biodegradable Waste, Morocco, Africa, Garbage
Solid Waste

Battle still rages between landfill site and residents

DURBAN - A legal battle rages on between waste management company EnviroServ and the civil group Upper Highway Air (UHA) over the operations at the controversial Shongweni landfill site.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2017
IOL (South Africa)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Garbage, Landfill, South Africa, Conflicts, Health Effects, Child Health, Africa

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