Concerned over the growing menace of plastic waste, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has urged the public to segregate solid waste at source to facilitate plastic waste management by the Corp

Thai authorities are boosting efforts to collect drain-clogging garbage in Bangkok as Thailand's slow-rolling floodwaters send debris from upstream into the capital, threatening two more massive in

Government has given top priority for execution of the much sought-after Sabarimala Master Plan with the sole aim of ensuring better basic facility at the pilgrim centre where as many as the State’

Members of the 15-member committee constituted recently by the Centre to allay the fears of local people on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project will meet the six-member ‘expert panel' formed by th

Amid increasing concerns over the safety of nuclear plants in the country in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a five-member US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) team, led by its Chairman Grego

Aims at providing basic facilities for waste disposal at household level

With the decentralised waste management project to be launched in the city soon, a mass convention was organised by the city Corporation here on Thursday to seek the support of the public, and to create awareness among the people of the project.

Thrikkakara municipality is far from finding a permanent solution to garbage management as it continues with its archaic and unscientific method of dumping waste in pits dug up in an open space and

Total coliform count exceeds permissible limits: PCB

Investigations by the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) have revealed heavy pollution of wells at select locations in Ernakulam district.
The monitoring agency found that the total coliform (bacteria) count exceeded the permissible limits at various sites. The wells identified for the water quality monitoring programme were located at Vyttila, Edayar, Brahmapuram, Eloor and Kalamassery.

World Bank Consultant Sandra Cointreau feels governments need to educate citizens about the importance of municipal solid waste management projects and prepare them to pay for their maintenance.