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Officials of the State Pollution Control Board, CCL and students of Birsa School clean up the Kanke dam area during an awareness campaign. Picture by Manik Bose
Ranchi, Feb. 2: The state capital would soon be free of polythene bags.

Our Correspondent . Rajshahi

Participants in a seminar on Monday stressed the need for utilising huge quantity of household wastes produced in the Rajshahi city everyday.
Household wastes can be turned in assets such as gas and fertiliser by properly utilising them, they told the seminar held at Nagar Bhaban in the city.

Amritsar: With an eye on the Lok Sabha polls, MP Navjot Singh Sidhu today staged a show of strength on the occasion of the inauguration of the Solid Waste Management Project for Amritsar, which was unveiled by Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal.

LONDON - What we throw away could soon be used to power our cars, if projects to produce ethanol from commercial waste are ramped up.

Some companies are exploring the environmental and financial benefits of putting waste to good use and are developing technology to produce bioethanol.

* Visitors, picnickers complain of crows descending on parks in droves * Ornithologists suggest reducing waste heaps could help control crow population
* PU professor urges CDGL to take action

By Ali Usman

Staff Reporter

Staff Reporter

Pollachi: A training programme on Solid Waste Management for the presidents of village panchayats was organised at Pollachi Municipality recently

A release from the Municipal Commissioner, K.R. Selvaraj said that solid waste management scheme was being implemented successfully in Pollachi and a ban has been imposed on use of plastics below 20 microns.

Sapna Verma | TNN

New Delhi: Worried over the ban on plastic bags in the Capital, traders are now looking for options. In an interactive session between the traders and the government on Thursday, the former raised their doubts and discussed ways to make Delhiites aware about the ban. Some RWAs also attended the session.

CHENNAI: A fresh green garden greets visitors at the head office of the Standard Chartered Bank on Rajaji Salai. The garden is nurtured by compost made at the zero waste centres on the premises. The bank