CHENNAI: Facilities meant to convert solid waste into compost are being used as open dumping sites in the Tiruvottiyur and Manali municipalities.

In Manali, a composting project involving self-help group members a few years ago was shelved

New Delhi: In 2004, a group of street children and ragpickers got together to make bags from scrap cloth and jute. Now, following a ban on plastic bags, the jute bags made by their organisation Lakhshya Badhte Kadam might just have hit the bull

Margao Municipal Council

Date: 23-Jan-09
Country: NEPAL
Author: Gopal Sharma

KATHMANDU - Tons of garbage dumped on the streets in Kathmandu have left the Nepali capital choking in what is proving a new headache for the embattled government headed by the Maoist former rebels.

Over 2,000 plastic manufacturing industries have been closed rendering lakhs of workers unemployed in just 15 days of the government

New delhi : The plastic manufacturers' association on Thursday said that they would be forced to approach the Supreme Court for relief if the Delhi government didn't take back the ban on plastic bags.

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, JAN 20
With just six days to go before the ban on plastic bags comes into effect in the Commercial Capital from January 26, the Margao Civic body appears a confused lot whether to impose a blanket ban on plastic bags or reign in only on carry bags less than 40 microns.

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Advocacy group People

NEW DELHI: The government's determination to ban the plastic bag in the capital can fetch results only when people resolve to shun the bag and help implement the ban. That can come about only with awareness. However, the ban can be seriously undermined by the hundreds of illegal manufacturing units operating out of non-conforming areas in the city, without the necessary environmental clearances.

COIMBATORE: Solid waste management is progressing in all the 52 town panchayats in the district, even though at least half of them are struggling to find land to create landfills for the disposal of non-biodegradable waste.

But, almost all of them have managed to find ways to make manure out of biodegradable waste.
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