Following strong protests by the Maharashtra government, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed that hazardous waste at Bhopal's Union Carbide chemical plant, now owned by Dow Chemicals, will be incinerated at a facility at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh.

Replying to a calling attention motion in the Assembly on Monday, Maharashtra Environment Minister Sanjay Devtale said the State government had opposed the burning of waste at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) facility near Nagpur.

“The agreement signed during the previous Congress regime was in favour of private firm”

Recently, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, on more than one occasion, expressed his displeasure over the substance of the agreement reached between local bodies and the selected private player to manage solid waste in Puducherry.

In a bid to boost solid-waste management at source, the City Corporation has offered a one per cent concession in property tax for households that install solid-waste treatment plants.

Addressing a news conference after the presentation of the 2012-13 budget of the Corporation on Monday, Mayor K. Chandrika said that the tax discount was being offered to encourage installation of decentralised waste management systems in city residences.

The second Geo Responsibility Awards (GRA) will be held on March 15 at the Water's Edge under the patronage of Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and Power and Energy Minister Champika R

Punjab government has started a new solid waste management system with the cooperation of Turkish companies in Lahore to dispose of daily five thousand ton garbage in a proper way to make the provi

Muttambalam area selected for the pilot project. The Kottayam municipality has launched a waste management system that involves door-to-door collection of garbage.

Muttambalam (or Ward No. 18), a residential area in Kanjikuzhy, has been selected for the pilot project of the programme. The programme got under way on Thursday with the collection of waste materials from the District Collector's bungalow.