Waste Disposal

Second attempt

the margao Municipal Council (MMC) is embarking on yet another attempt to collect garbage from the city hotels directly. The council tried a similar

Publication Date:

30/03/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Urban Development, Waste Disposal, India, Hotels

Forests

In a mess

With urban and industrial development accelerating at a fast pace, waste disposal is becoming a major problem. Inordinate focus on household waste has often disguised the much larger volume generated

Publication Date:

Saturday, March 30, 2002

Source: Down to Earth

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Issue:

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Tags:

Industrial Dispersal, Development, Waste Disposal, OECD

India

IT paves the way

there is an infotech solution in sight

Publication Date:

14/03/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Waste Disposal, India, Waste Recycling

India

Polluted Yangtze

The Yangtze River of China is becoming increasingly polluted, according to a report of the Yangtze River Water Resources Authority. In 2001, sewage and industrial waste dumping increased by 11 per

Publication Date:

27/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Water Quality, Waste Disposal, China

Water Pollution

Rivers e effect

The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by dumping effluents

Publication Date:

27/02/2002

Author(s): Kushal P S Yadav

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Water Pollution, River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Musi, Arsenic, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad (D)

India

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset

Publication Date:

27/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020228

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling

India

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that are sustainable and equitable. So that every Indian can have access to sanitation and still have clean water t

Publication Date:

27/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020228

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling

India

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem and not the solution. Consider the huge amount of clean water that is used to carry a small quantity of human

Publication Date:

27/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020228

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling

Industry

Safe disposal

with a ban on landfilling of combustible wastes, the Swedish municipalities are giving an impetus to biological processing of household waste. As a result, the capacity of such processing is

Publication Date:

14/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Waste Disposal, Waste Incineration, Waste Treatment, Legislation, Sweden

Water Pollution