Panjim based businessman and the Chairman and Managing Director of Alcon Enterprises, Anil Counto today said that his two acre land at Tonca which facilitated dumping of the City Corporation's solid

Plans by the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) to set up a garbage disposal site has received a major setback, with the Cunchelim Communidade strongly opposing moves to acquire 32,050 sq mtrs of their la

With the High Court directing the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to stop dumping the city's garbage at its present disposal site at Tonca, there is now nowhere for the city's rubbish to

The Satpura Thermal Power Station is situated at Sarni, District Betul, Madhya Pradesh. The study deals with the assessment of the impact of thermal power plant activities on water quality of nearby area, industrial wastes has serious consequences from the point of view of pollution of streams and rivers in India. (2007)

The purge of slums to free up real estate in cities began in 1994, through

Over the past few months, the Chennai Corporation has given permission to four municipalities in the Chennai Metropolitan Area to dump garbage in Perungudi. The site currently receives a few thousand tonnes of garbage and 200 tonnes of debris every day from the Chennai Corporation alone. Pallavaram, Madipakkam, Kottivakkam and Valasarawakkam municipalities have been allowed to use the site. The first three were granted permission with retrospective effect by the Corporation Council at its meeting on Friday. The local body is charging them Rs.261 per tonne, the same disposal charges levied on private parties dumping garbage at the site. Pallavaram, which generates about 75 tonnes of garbage a day, was using a 2.5-acre plot in Ganapathypuram for 35 years. As garbage had piled 15 feet high at the site, the High Court instructed the local body to immediately find an alternate site, according to a resolution passed by the council. The local body has been dumping part of its daily collection at Perungudi as a temporary measure. It hopes to use the solid waste management facility being developed for Pallavaram, Tambaram and Alandur local bodies at Venkatamangalam village at a cost of Rs.40 crore, which is expected to be ready in a year. It dumps about 50 tonnes of garbage daily at Perungudi. The Valasarawakkam municipality has been using the site for about two months now. The Madipakkam municipality was using a site in Karapakkam, where works on solid waste management improvement are currently being undertaken, and had sought permission to use Perungudi three months ago. Kottivakkam was using a lake to dump garbage. It was asked by the government to clean it up for rainwater harvesting. No information was available on when alternate sites would be identified by the last three municipalities in the resolutions passed on Friday. The Chennai Corporation was initially allotted 30 hectares on the Pallikaranai marsh that was later expanded to 58 for the dumping site. The Corporation had written to the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority to help it identify a new dump site in 2004.

Unreclaimed mine tailings sites are a worldwide problem, with thousands of unvegetated, exposed tailings piles presenting a source of contamination for nearby communities. Tailings disposal sites in arid and semiarid environments are especially subject to eolian dispersion and water erosion. Phytostabilization, the use of plants for in situ stabilization of tailings and metal contaminants, is a feasible alternative to costly remediation practices.

The objective of these guidelines is to provide guidance for identification of various sources of waste electrical and electronic equipments (e-waste) and prescribed procedures for handling e-waste in an environmentally sound manner. These Guidelines are reference document for the management, handling and disposal of e-wastes.

Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, is blessed with rivers. But what's the use? Each and every river and canal is filled with poisonous muck which seeps into groundwater. The Janhit Foundation in Meerut has carried out several studies which show that Uttar Pradesh's groundwater is loaded with dangerous carcinogenic chemicals. Towns and villages are becoming infamous for particular chemicals.

This article argues that waste management and recycling have become regional or international issues; they can no longer be considered only in a national context. The regionalization or internationalization of waste and recycling issues is caused in large part by the steady advance of economic integration, especially increasing trade and investment flows resulting from trade and investment liberalization.

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