In an innovative move to reduce green house effect, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to harness gas emanating from landfill sites in the Capital and utilise it commercially. The civic body has roped in Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), which will extract gas from Ghazipur landfill site on experimental basis.

CHENNAI: A member of a SC Committee on Solid Waste, Almitra Patel, has written to CM M Karunanidhi and Deputy CM M K Stalin asking them to intervene and protect the Chembarambakkam Lake from landfill pollution.

Maya Khodave is a rag picker in Nashik. Presently, she is in Tianjin, China, asserting the role of ragpickers in maintaining the world environment.

Requesting that the temporary dumping site used by the Municipal Corporation in Sector 23 be shifted, the regional officer of Haryana State Pollution Control Board has sent a communique in this regard to the chairman.

All appears quite in the Margao Municipal Council on the signing of the Concession Agreement with Fomento for the setting up of the waste treatment plant at Sonsodo.
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Environmentalists and social activists on Tuesday blamed the authorities concerned for turning a Nelson

The Bombay High Court at Goa today ordered the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) not to carry out a landfill site at Sada, while allowing them to go ahead with their garbage disposal process.

TIMES NEWS NETWORKNew Delhi: With the three existing landfill sites having exhausted their capacity a while ago, MCD has finally got some relief in dealing with Delhi