Ahmedabad : The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has finally got into action and plans to fix responsibility and accountability of illegal recycling of hospital waste on the point of generation of the waste the Doctor's clinic.

New Delhi: In a desperate attempt to have the ban on plastic bags revoked, the plastic lobby has now proposed that they be authorized for collecting and recycling plastic waste from households on a door-to-door collection basis.

K.V. Prasad

COIMBATORE: Residents of R.K. Naidu Layout at Venkitapuram in the city were a harried lot on Tuesday. A garbage dump in the corner of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

S V Upendra Charya

Spread over 90 acres, a sewage filled shrinking tank, Karanji lake was revived by the Mysore Zoo Authority some thirty years ago under Asian Development Bank Project.

Water contamination level at the two-landfill sites, where solid waste of the city is dumped, has shot more than 500 times than the acceptable level, raising questions about the government

BY MIKE MELIA

Miles from shore in the open Caribbean Sea, cruise ships are dumping ground-up glass, rags and cardboard packaging. But vessels in other waters such as the Baltic and North seas are prohibited from throwing any solid waste overboard other than food scraps.

Environmental worries have transformed the waste industry, says Edward McBride. But governments