Referring to the garbage crisis in the Colombo City, the Former Opposition Leader of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Vasudeva Nanayakkara charged yesterday that no one is taking steps to stop the thuggery of Minister Mervyn Silva who had stopped dumping of garbage in Peliyagoda.

Order passed on a public interest litigation petition

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Porur town panchayat to remove the garbage dumped between two schools at Porur, on the city

The Corporation of City of Panaji has warned the Town and Country Planning Department (TCP) and the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to shift their vehicles from the EDC complex at Patto or else to pay the required penalty.
The EDC complex has literally turned into dumping ground for various scrapped government vehicles, which are occupying major space.

Pune In a bid to bring about a solution to the garbage crisis in Uruli Devachi and Phursunhi, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is pondering over creating ward-wise garbage processing units in all the 14 wards of the city, through which energy would also be created.

Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford.

Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford.

Pune Much to the relief of the Pune Municipal Corporation officials, as well as the citizens who have ben negotiating garbage heaps on the roads for the last five days, villagers of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi today allowed the civic body to dispose of the city

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that the judicial process cannot be used for fixing the lifespan for landfill sites in Haryana.

Taking a step forward in rooting out polythene from the Kashmir valley, Green Dream, a group of young professionals and students, visited the Jamia Masjid area and appealed to traders there to avoid polythene in their daily operations.

Green Dream members Khurram Wani, Kaunsar Bhat, Mehboob Jeelani and others asked traders to make alternative arrangements instead of using polythene.

We all use plastic bags because we find them durable, multi-purpose and cost-effective. However, most of us are not aware of the perils of indiscriminate use of plastic.

Just think of how many plastic bags you have used and thrown in the last one year.