Hold dharna demanding processing of entire garbage at solid waste plant, charge Municipal Corporation with inaction

Everyday kitchen and garden waste can be recycled judiciously with a little effort. It can also pay rich dividends, some experiments in the city show.
The Chennai Corporation has offered assistance to large apartment complexes by offering to collect non-biodegradable waste and excess manure.
In poorer neighbourhoods, the civic body distributed coloured bins but residents do not segregate waste as there is no compulsion to do so, they say.

Surat: If all goes well, Surat will be the first city in the state to generate electricity from garbage. The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has moved a proposal for generating 12 MW electricity from 600 metric tonne of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Mumbai already has such a project.

KOCHI:  At a time when the residents of Fort Kochi are choked with the garbage heaps, the Corporation is sitting over `17.20 lakh sent to the local body as a part of the payment for its implementation.

The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the anaerobic digestion and composting process for disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) on economical aspects. Economic evaluation includes 3 major costs: (i) capital cost, (ii) operation and maintenance cost and (iii) reinvestment cost.

Bangalore: Karnataka lags behind Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh in using municipal solid waste as a co-processing (raw materials as a source of energy) in industries. Co-processing can be used in cement kilns, power plants and integrated iron and steel industry and can replace natural resources and fossil fuels like coal and petroleum.

Garbage disposal will cost a fortune to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike in future.
The local body will have to spend Rs 350 crore for collection, transportation and disposal of garbage in the next two years, Home Minister R?Ashoka said here on Monday.

Ashoka, who is also district in charge minister for Bangalore Urban told reporters that fresh tenders would soon be floated to award cont

Agency running Brahmapuram plant decides to opt out of responsibility
Centre for Environment and Development has served the three-month notice period
Plant site already overflowing with garbage collected from various parts of the city
KOCHI: The Centre for Environment and Development (CED), the agency that has been running the solid waste treatment plant of the Kochi Corporation at Brahmapuram,

Residents' associations accuse Corporation of apathy

Panjim: Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) which has been desperately trying to sort out its garbage problem by streamlining garbage collection and disposal is confronted with a new problem

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