The Government has approved the appointment of a committee to look into the problem of garbage collection in the Dehiwala - Mount Lavinia MC limits.

The Bombay High Court has cracked the whip on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) in response to a writ petition filed by an NGO that bio-medical waste (BMW) was not being properly disposed off in the city.

K. Manikandan

Adhoc arrangement: Vacant plots in southern suburbs of Chennai serve as makeshift dump yards in the absence of effective and sound solid waste management practices by most urban and rural local bodies. A scene at Medavakkam.

DH News Service, Bangalore:

Environmentalist A N Yellappa Reddy on Monday said that urban local bodies should take up programmes for treatment of sewage water, and also take the necessary steps to ensure scientific disposal of garbage.

K Raja Rajan

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OCTOBER 5

KY Vijay Kumar | ENS
Chennai,

PLASTIC is an environmental hazard chiefly because it is nonbiodegradable. It cannot be decomposed by micro-organisms or by any biological process. It is a synthetic polymer that can be moulded into complex shapes. Elasticity makes it extremely popular as a packaging material.

T Muruganandam | ENS
Chennai,
THE only serious attempt to regulate the proliferation of disposable plastics in the State was made in 2002, when the then AIADMK government introduced a Bill on the subject in the Assembly.

Nalini Ravichandran | ENS
Chennai,

A tough law that bans lighting up in public places has put smokers on notice. City Police Commissioner R Sekar intends to enforce the law sometime this week. Whether or not he manages to do so, at least a step has been taken in the right direction.

R. Srikanth

CHENNAI: The public hearing on waste dumping at Pallikaranai marshland, organised by the expert committee on solid waste management at Pallikaranai, on Sunday saw a good response from residents and environmentalists.