Building an average new house generates about nine tonnes of waste.

A total of 150 trash bins have been placed along a 200-meter street in Shenzhen, which local residents have labeled a waste.

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand over two of the four earmarked landfill sites to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and the South Del

Smart is as smart does. The government's proposal to build 100 "smart" cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country such as India.

Lahore—Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) launched a special cleanliness operation at fruit and vegetable market, Iqbal Town on the request of its administrator after reports of persistent issu

LALITPUR: A walk in and around Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is not so pleasant of late, with stench drifting across and piles of garbage creating an eyesore, all thanks to a h

QUETTA: About 22,000 tons of garbage piled during the past 10 years in the provincial capital has been lifted under the ‘one-time cleaning activity project’ under way for a few days.

The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene have opposed the plans of the Palike to identify a site in Doddaballapur taluk for disposing garbage.

A study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has revealed that 10 to 15 per cent of the total three lakh tonnes of waste generated daily goes to illegal dumping sites on the outskirt

Islamabad—Residents of twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have been advised to properly dispose of solid waste at their houses to prevent access to egg-laying female mosquitoes.