KARACHI: The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is formulating a new policy for solid waste management and Executive District Officer (EDO) Masood Alam has asked deputy town health officers of the city to furnish suggestions for this purpose.

Although informal settlements are proliferating in cities across low- and middle-income nations, there is 40 years of experience to draw on in upgrading these

Comparative study of heavy metals in forty species of red seaweed belonging to twenty six genera from three different coastal areas (Buleji, Paradise Point and Nathia Gali) of Karachi, Arabian Sea was carried out over the period of three years. There is high variability in metals concentration with in, seaweed species, sampling sites and collection time.

The provincial Environment and Alternate Energy Department is launching a campaign against the smoke-emitting and noisy vehicles from January 27, 2010 to contain the ever-growing pollution in the city.

Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister Sharmila Farooqui on Sunday asked leaders of environment, social and community people organisations including IUCN and WWF-Pakistan to start new projects in collaboration with the Sindh government, particularly Environment Department based on mutual faith and truth to save Karachi beaches and seawater from pollution being caused industrial effluent and domestic sewa

ISLAMABAD: To improve public transport system, the government approved Private-Public Partnership Environment Friendly Public Transport system for major urban centres of Pakistan with a total cost of Rs 5 billion, sources told Daily Times here on Saturday.

To facilitate the commuters of Karachi, 4,000 CNG buses will be operated in the city by 2012 under the public-private partnership project. This was informed at a meeting of high officials presided over by Sindh Chief Secretary Fazalur Rehman at his office on Thursday. The CNG buses project would directly provide jobs to 20,000 people and indirectly to thousands of others.

The supervisory committee of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto CNG Buses Project which met here on Thursday in the Sindh chief secretary

ISLAMABAD: Over 400 million gallons of untreated industrial waste are being discharged into the sea daily and the city district government of Karachi is finding it difficult to handle the situation because of lack of funds, Environment Minister Hameed Ullah Jan informed the National Assembly during a question-hour on Monday.

KARACHI: In the absence of any integrated solid waste management system for Karachi, air pollution in the city continues to grow and affect public health as a considerable part of the waste is still burnt in the open in almost all towns and cantonment areas.

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