UNDER STUDY: A GAIA team at the compost yard of Mudichur panchayat near Tambaram on Tuesday.

SANGUEM, AUG 20

NEW DELHI: Delhi Nationalist Congress Party president and Badarpur MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Tuesday met Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna and urged him to immediately order stopping of construction of the Jaitpur landfill site at Tajpur Pahari in his constituency as it poses a major environmental threat to the fragile ecology of the area.

Mumbai, August 19 The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has identified six new dumping grounds for the entire Mumbai Mertropolitan Region (MMR), in an effort to end the solid waste generation problem the region is facing.

THRISSUR: Instead of decentralised arrangements for the treatment and processing of waste by Local Self-help Groups in each district, a centralised processing arrangement for a few districts or for each district was mooted by Thrissur District Collector V K Baby.

He presented the idea at the meeting of Thrissur Mayor, Chairmen and Secretaries of municipalities and concerned officials held at the Collectorate here the other day.

The participants welcomed the idea. The Collector said that the preliminary sorting of the waste should be done at the generating points.

The Dhaka City Corporation will receive around 100 CNG-run environmentally-friendly garbage trucks and 25 compactors, used in waste reduction, from the Japan government within a couple of months, corporation officials said.
A Japanese team is now working in Bangladesh for this purpose and a memorandum of understanding, to this effect, is likely to be signed between the External Relations Division and the Japan government on August 22, said a top DCC engineer.

KOCHI: The Ernakulam Sessions Court prohibited the dumping of waste at Padiyath Basin waste collection yard of the Kochi Corporation near the Convent Junction.

The order was issued by Sessions Court Judge D Pappachan on a petition filed by Friends of Environment secretary D B Binu and Mohammedkunj of Noor Masjid.

The petition has pointed out that the Corporation had been dumping the waste in a place which is adjacent to St Teresa's College, St Mary's Church, hospital and Law College.

Neha Sinha

New Delhi, August 13 Now, DPCC can search, confiscate material from illegal plastic manufacturing and recycling units in city

Giving its ruling on arguably the city's biggest choker and polluter, plastics, the Delhi High Court has given more teeth to the normally toothless Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).

JAYANTA BASU
Airports, railway stations, malls and fast food outlets have to take an active role in plastic waste management, the state environment department has decided.

The department has asked all municipalities and municipal corporations to issue directives to malls, airports, railway stations and fast food centres to make arrangements for delivery of their plastic waste to authorised recycling units within August 31.

Mumbai, August 9 Finding an ecological solution to reuse polythene and plastic waste, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation laid a 100-metre stretch of road at Dadar using plastic and asphalt. This stretch on Prof V S Agashe Road near the Kohinoor Technical Institute in Dadarwas laid by the civic body's Road department with the help of the Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE) . The BMC will test its sustainability for a year and then decide whether to lay an entire stretch of road using waste plastic.