BANGALORE: Triggering yet another garbage crisis, residents of Mandur stopped over 200 garbage trucks on Tuesday near the landfill at Mandur, off Old Madras Road, in East Bangalore.

A huge demonstration against a planned waste incinerator in one of eastern China’s biggest cities turned violent on Saturday with protesters overturning and setting fire to police cars, leaving at

Controversial means to dispose of garbage by setting it ablaze at the garbage treatment plant in Dumane-Canacona has angered locals and tourists in the area.

Chinese experts have defended the construction of a huge waste incinerator in the scenic eastern city of Hangzhou, state media said on Friday, despite weeks of protests by residents who fear the pr

Mounds of plastic in bags, litter lying in a corner nearby and storm water drains clogged with refuse.

RANCHI: Taking a cue from Pune Municipal Corporation, deputy mayor of Ranchi Municipal Corporation, Sanjiv Vijayvargiya has come up with a new plan to deal with the longstanding issue of garbage di

The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) has started work to implement the Clean Murree Project under a mega development programme, a project launched after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took serio

Korali block most sensitive; poor hygiene, open drains culprits

Lack of cleanliness around the Yamuna seems to be making certain areas in the city and the district malaria sensitive.
Korali block, which consists of over five villages, is one of them. Nine out of the total 10 positive cases of malaria recorded by the Health Department this season are from this block. The district had reported 1,012 malaria cases last year officially.

After a delay of more than six years, the Sundargarh district administration finally paved the way to set up the solid waste treatment processing plant of Rourkela Municipality at Tarkera.

The completion of the municipal solid waste project will only be finished post-monsoon as the construction of the much-needed landfill site at Sonsoddo has been suspended for the last five months.