Plans by the Urban Development Ministry and KTC to dump Sonsodo's dry waste at the KTC bus stand evoked strong criticism from the Goa Congress Mahila Congress chief Monica Dias.

It is raining and Tirana's main rubbish dump in the Sharra valley, about five kilometres outside the capital, is covered in sticky mud. However, for Ardian Alu it is business as usual. Together with his two young sons, Mr Alu, a member of Albania's Roma community, sifts through piles of waste selecting recyclable materials he can sell to a local trader. He is paid Lek14 (

Energy companies cannot be charged a fully commercial price for disposing of nuclear waste without "killing the prospect" of a new generation of reactors, a senior UK government adviser will warn today. The analysis will spur opposition to Britain's contentious drive to expand its nuclear capacity. Gordon Brown, the prime minister, will today underscore his determination to attract investors to build new reactors at his summit with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.

MCD officials today said the engineered sanitary landfill site, which the civic body is developing at Jaitpur, will be ready by December this year.

Amid furor in the House over plans to set up waste treatment plant at Bainguinim, the Government today decided to appoint a House committee, which will identify a site for disposal of garbage collect

Around 40 residents from the Chembur area resorted to a hunger strike on Monday to protest against the frequent fire and smoke at the Deonar dumping ground.

The Cunchelim Action Committee (CAC), residents of Cunchelim, Ward I of the Mapuca Municipal Council (MMC), have reiterated their opposition to plans by the MMC to acquire land for the proposed garbag

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The dumping of garbage barely 500 metres from the Dabolim Airport has posed a serious threat to planes at the Dabolim airport, with three cases of planes being hit by birds in January alone.

THE management of huge and growing quantities of electronic waste may emerge as one of the more important environmental problems of developing countries in the near future.