KOCHI: As the waste menace is continuing to be a major headache for residents and authorities, the newly formed Thrikkakara Municipality is planning to initiate steps to tackle the issue.

Mule dung menace to become energy source
JAMMU, Feb 10: Though it remained a menace for decades together yet several tonnes of mule dung being littered every day on 13 kilometers track of holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi, is shortly going to become a source of energy generation for the Shrine Board as Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy funded mule dung based bio-gas plant is comi

DISPOSING of household rubbish is not, at first glance, a task that looks amenable to high-tech solutions. But Hilburn Hillestad of Geoplasma, a firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, begs to differ. Burying trash

MUMBAI: After earning a handsome advance on the delivery of carbon credits from 'scientifically' closing down the Gorai dump yard, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hoped to pocket a three times bigger amount once the curtains went down on Deonar, the city's oldest waste site.

Obnoxious smell, piles of filth and garbage from the dumping grounds might soon disappear. The grounds will be transformed into green lungs of the city.

After the successful closure of the Gorai dumping ground was recognised globally at UN Climate Change Conference, a similar project is set to be replicated at Deonar.