HOTEL Raintree, a popular 5-star hotel in Chennai, was recently awarded the prestigious Golden Peacock award at a glittering function. Akash Gupta, General Manager, The Raintree Hotel, received the award from Dr Ula Ullsten, former prime minister of Sweden, and currently the Chairman, World Council for Corporate Governance. Numerous dignitaries from the worlds of industry, international affairs, ecology and eco-sensitivty were present on the occasion.

The district administration has chalked out an elaborate programme in the town for the World Environment Day. However, the town suffers from the fact that there is no scientific garbage disposal system in place.

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incineration of plastic that is non biodegradable leads to emission of cancer-causing dioxins. Researchers from Kolkata say they have developed a better disposal mechanism that cuts down emission of

The already delayed project of a door-to-door collection of city's solid waste has suffered yet another setback as the Chinese firm, which had signed an agreement with the city government, has expressed its reservations over investing $230 million in view of the country's fragile political and law and order situation. Sources told Dawn that the overall political situation and the steps taken by the provincial government for the control of the water utility and the KBCA had compelled the Chinese firm to review its decision of investing in the project.

Corlim panchayat conducted

A US appeals court on Wednesday threw out a Washington state law barring the federal government from adding radioactive waste to the Hanford nuclear disposal site until existing contamination is cleaned up. The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal law pre-empts the state from halting waste disposal at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a 586-square-mile (1,520-square-km) site along the Columbia River in south-eastern Washington. It provided plutonium for World War Two atomic bombs and for the US Cold War arsenal.

Angry residents in Naples attacked fire-fighters trying to extinguish burning garbage in the trash collection crisis in the southern Italian city, said authorities. Fire-fighters said the residents threw stones. No injuries were reported. Fire-fighters said the police had to escort them while putting out fires. Premier Silvio Berlusconi would preside over a Cabinet meeting in Naples this week to resolve the garbage collection crisis, which broke out in December 2007 when collectors stopped picking up trash because there was no more room at the dumps.

Door-to-door collection of garbage from hotels in the Commercial Capital by a private agency will begin on a trial basis for 10-15 days only from Wednesday The agency, Municipal Waste Collection Committee, on Monday had a meeting with the Chief Officer Y B Tawde and Chairperson Johnson Fernandes, wherein the civic body agreed upon to make available one municipal truck, driver and labourers to the agency to lift garbage from the city hotels. The Chief Officer is believed to have rejected the proposal for payment of money to the agency.

International laws: Even as 1987 Montreal Protocol laid down rules to banish ozone depleting substances (ODS), several of the substitutes that came into use were GHGs. These were covered under the Climate Change Convention. The Kyoto Protocol included six GHGs and committed developed countries to mandatory emission reduction targets of these gases.