Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) has decided to initiate a modern Municipal Solid Waste Management Project in collaboration with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to develop

The recovery system to extract hazardous metals from electronic wastes has to be improved in the State, according to R.Ramachandran, Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB).

KOLKATA, 23 AUG: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed to upgrade the Gardenreach water works under public-private-partnership (PPP) model with the loan available from the Asian Deve

District Collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed said that a plot of land will be identified for a new waste treatment plant to find a permanent solution to the issue of waste management in Eloor municipality.

Twenty seven Green Awards will be presented at the National Green Awards ceremony organized by the Central Environment Authority (CEA) which will be held at 7.00 pm at the BMICH today.

TURA: Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma on Monday handed over Nirmal Gram Puraskar Awards to seventy-one villages of West Garo Hills, the highest achievement for the state, in a glittering programmee at the district auditorium here.

Laws to curb poultry waste dumping in public
The district is set to pilot the State government's comprehensive waste disposal project. Minister for Industries P.K. Kunhalikutty said here on Friday that Malappuram district was chosen to pilot the project considering its problems in waste disposal.

The Corporation is planning to rope in a national agency for completing the leg work for floating the expression of interest. Bids from at least three nationally recognised agencies, which have expertise in the solid waste management sector, will be invited. The selected agency will be responsible for the floating of the Expression of Interest and completing the basic paper work related to the project, said T.K. Ashraf, chairman of the Health Standing Committee of the Corporation.

The budget estimate of the Kottayam municipality for the year 2011-12 envisages the implementation of a comprehensive drinking water supply scheme, waste management, and providing employment to women, among other projects.

It was touted to be the millennium city with towering buildings and shopping malls, but the tonnes of garbage strewn around residential colonies and open plots and lack of a collection system makes