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Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued 133 notices to hospitals and pathological laboratories including Government-run hospitals and health centres for submission of Action Plan on compliance of Biomedical Waste Rules even as the State Government today asked the hospital managements to immediately decide on short-term measures to tackle bio-medical waste.

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TIRUNELVELI: An anti-plastic campaign was carried out at the Manimuthar dam check-post when hundreds of revellers were allowed entry to bathe at the Manimuthar waterfalls on Thursday last in view of

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ERODE: Even as the Bhavani Municipality takes steps to implement the solid waste management system, the Consumer Protection Council has asked the civic body for safe disposal of garbage.

At present the civic body dumps garbage at a 6.5-acre site near the Bhavani New Bus Stand and the rear end of the graveyard, near vegetable market.

With landfill sites full to the brim, MCD has no option but to explore new methods to manage waste
Ruhi Bhasin & Neha Lalchandani | TNN

Having exhausted its three landfill sites and with no alternative places ready, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is now pinning its hopes on any technology that will bail it out of the rather messy situation of waste management.

Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

The UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) feels that a complete ban on polythene will would be the best and most effective way of putting an end to the problems caused by it. Many states in the country have already put a blanket ban on the usage of polythene and are reaping rich benefits from it.

Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

On the pattern of Delhi, the use of polythene may be completely banned in the state capital also. The first citizen as well as environmentalists have started thinking on these lines and a proposal to this effect may be tabled in the next meeting of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) house.

Chandigarh: A 2-MW biomass waste-based co-generation power plant has been commissioned at Yamunanagar at a cost of Rs 15.23 crore at Bharat Starch Industries, said Sumita Misra, Director, Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA). The plywood waste, available in huge quantity in Yamunanagar, will be used in the project, she added.

NEW DELHI

The MCD is com ing up with four construction and demolition waste recycling plants in the would help in alleviating the problem of disposal of waste generated by construction activity throughout the year.

17 Jan 2009, 0737 hrs IST, Neha Lalchandani, TNN

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