The project will also see the creation of a vermin-composting facility

GETTING BETTER: Workers laying a cement road around Thanjavur garbage dump.

There seems no respite for the aam aami from piling garbage in the Commercial Capital.

Fighting to prevent the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn from being labeled a Superfund site, city officials are proposing an alternative cleanup plan that they say would still be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency but would take only about half the time a Superfund project would require.

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has said that no dumping of garbage on a 67-acre grazing land at Kuthambakkam in Tiruvallur district, about 40 km from here, will be permitted, until further orders.

New Delhi: After the success of its pilot project in Lutyens Bungalow Zone and Rashtrapati Bhawan, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) plans to expand the segregated home garbage disposal plan to all NDMC areas.

Cleanliness has always been acknowledged as a vital component for any successful venture, especially for quality tourism promotion in Sikkim which is already feeling the pinch of garbage littering by lakhs of tourists visiting this hilly State.

KOCHI: District Collector M Beena, on Monday instructed the Water Authority, the Pollution Control Board and the Aluva Municipality to take steps to prevent the disposal of waste materials in the Periyar. The instruction was given at a meeting convened by the Human Rights Commission.

Ivory Coast sued Trafigura for dumping toxic waste THE High Court of Justice in London ruled that some testimonies against Dutch oil trading company accused of dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast will be heard in private. The ruling followed allegations that the company, Trafigura, was trying to influence witnesses. The people of Ivory Coast have sued Trafigura for US $160 million in