The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is planning to involve the private sector for door-to-door garbage collection in the city.

NGT Cracks Whip On Private Firm Managing Landfill

Rajkot: In a major victory for nearly 8,000 people of six villages near Rajkot, the National Green Tribunal, (NGT), Pune has ordered the private firm managing the municipal solid waste of the city to pay a compensation of Rs 25 lakh for improper handling of the waste.

The city is all set to adopt an integrated solid waste management strategy to cope with emerging challenges to implementation of projects.

A meeting to finalise the report on integrated solid waste management strategy was held on Tuesday with international consultants of Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), a regional initiative that provides assistance to Asian cities to bridge the gap between their development plans and the implementation of their infrastructure projects.

Millions of tonnes of old electronic goods illegally exported to developing countries, as people dump luxury items

BHOPAL: The central zone bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up the pollution control board, civic officials and senior state government officers for non-compliance on its ea

Trucks transporting waste to Mandur, choose to dump it midway, into Rampura lake.

The garbage crisis is taking its toll on Rampura lake in East Bangalore with waste being dumped there. The lake is gradually being converted into a landfill, with garbage transporters conveniently dumping garbage midway instead of taking it to the landfill site located in Mandur.

Two initial phases of the under-construction Lahore Sanitary Landfill Project (LSLP) at Lakhodair have been completed.

Ahmedabad: Plastic objects, from the everyday bag to large containers, are infamous for their immortality.

The 5,000 tonnes of garbage generated in the city per day has the potential to be converted to 12 crore litre of aviation fuel and 4.5 crore litre of diesel per year.

An expert told Express that through plasma gasification and vitrification process, a technology developed by NASA, the garbage could be generated into wealth.