Finally, lakhs of families living in the colonies around Jawaharnagar dumping yard can hope to breathe fresh air as Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) will start trial runs on segregation, composting and scientific disposal of garbage from January 18.

For the first time, the process of segregating the waste into degradable and non-degradable before being disposed off in a scientific manner, will start, gradually putting an end to the problem of air and ground water pollution in the area, as till date garbage is being dumped without segregation and precautions to avoid environmental hazards.

To meet every two days and give advice to Corporation

The Urban Affairs Department has constituted a core committee, to be convened by Principal Secretary James Varghese, to monitor the garbage disposal crisis caused by the agitation against the Corporation's solid-waste treatment plant at Vilappilsala.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said the Rawalpindi Environment Improvement Project (REIP) failed to achieve sustainable reduction in environmental degradation and operation of basic urban service

London: If discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards in the UK were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to run more than 20 trips to moon.

A meeting convened by District Collector Anand Singh here on Sunday to find a solution to garbage disposal problems of Thalassery municipality was inconclusive as representatives of local action co

Lacking a solid waste management policy (SWMP) for the metropolis is the mother of all the evils that have ruined city's environment.

CUTTACK: City-dwellers woke up to roads littered with remnants of crackers and pungent air with harmful chemicals on Thursday, the morning after Diwali, with civic body authorities admitting to ar

As the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) could not find a place for the construction of a new Solid Landfill Site (SLF) to dump the city’s garbage, the civic body has decided on remediation of w