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With the growing population, urbanisation and demand for consumer goods, both quantity and quality of urban solid waste has changed significantly. This is causing serious environment problems.

Sanitation is defined as safe management of human excreta, including its safe confinement treatment, disposal and associated hygiene-related practices. While this policy pertains to management of human excreta and associated public health and

This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India the for the year ended March 2007 containing the results of the Performance Audit on

The initiatives taken, both by Wal-Mart and Progressive Bag Affiliates need to be replicated across the world, including India. Imposing a ban on plastic bags as being advocated by some critics is not the solution

This could be the first brush of railways

CUTTACK: Taking serious note of non-implementation of its orders on shifting the solid waste yards from the Capital city to the designated Bhuasuni site by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) even after nine months, the Orissa High Court on Thursday granted time to the civic agency till Monday for filing affidavit on the status of the issue.

COIMBATORE: A fervent call for segregation of waste at the point of generation, a warning that licences of shops will be revoked if they littered their environs and emphasis on awareness on these marked a recent review by District Collector V. Palanikumar of the status of solid waste management across the district.

As the passion for recycling remains on a high, Micha Kuechenhoff turns towards garbage for jewellery. The Berlin-born, California based designer takes old, unwanted things like locks, keys, brooches and broken pieces of glass, and creates bright, stylish jewellery out of them. High end boutiques then sell them for upto US $300. The idea, Micha Kuechenhoff said, is to make people aware of

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On safe disposal: K. Murugesan from School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, addressing students of Periyar University in Salem on Tuesday.

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