With elections and campaigning out of the way, environment minister Alina Saldanha will soon convene a meeting to review the management of garbage in Goa and importantly to get more village panchay

The garbage enclosures are being used as public conveniences in several places

The grouping of garbage bins by installing enclosures may have partly helped in covering up overflowing garbage from public eye, but it has resulted in nuisance of a different kind.

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will soon install three stations to continuously monitor ambient air quality in the city.

The civic body has an uphill task in hand - the problem of dumping of piles of garbage with its plan to distribute decomposed waste as fertilizer to farmers free of cost finding no takers.

A few kilometres away from the manicured green lawns and rows of neat flower beds of Lutyen’s Delhi, staff of the Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash and GB Pant Hospitals and residents around the area are figh

Overflowing litter affecting health of residents as well as stray cattle

Open containers overflowing with garbage continue to affect the health of residents as well as stray cattle in the city. The Municipal Corporation (MC) has installed hundreds of garbage containers in various parts of the city, but regular disposal of the garbage is still not being done. The overflowing garbage containers have offer food for the stray cattle, which affects their health as the garbage contains polythene and other harmful things.

Three years after the garbage treatment plant at Vilappilsala was shut down, the city corporation formally put an end to all financial deals pertaining to the plant.

Wastes at the Vellalore dump yard are being processed according to rules, said Coimbatore Corporation in its response to a Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board directive.