KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation is playing hide and seek by announcing the launch of Brahmapuram Waste Treatment. Though they have announced the launch of a new plant, the authorities are mum about the functioning of the existing plant where tonnes of waste has accumulated.

The initial plan was to produce manure from the waste but this was not carried out on a large-scale basis.

The lives of rural Bhutanese is expected to get better once the six projects for environment conservation is implemented.

From November this year, people in Sipsoo in Samtse and Sarpang will have a stone masonry and elephant trench built with solar electric fencing to keep the elephants away.

While up north the project would replace the shingle roofs of 236 houses in Merak and 139 houses in

Other projects being taken up include tapping solar energy and planting saplings.

KOCHI: The operator of the International Container Transshipment Terminal, DP World, has launched a solid-waste management and a greening programme on the vast undeveloped area contiguous to the terminal.

It is part of a comprehensive plan by the company to improve the environment around its operations on the V

Awaits TANGEDCO approval to supply electricity
CHENNAI: The bio-methanation plant at Koyambedu, which remained dysfunctional for over two years, is all set to generate power from vegetable and fruit waste collected from the wholesale market.
The plant, which is operating for the past two months, is awaiting Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation's (TANGEDCO) approval to supply electr

Residents' associations accuse Corporation of apathy

Even as a number of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation departments engage in bringing out the annual Environment Status Report of the city, the subject does not seem to interest corporators. It is mandatory for the BMC to get an official approval from the general body of corporators before the document is made official.

NOIDA: With garbage strewn on the roads, overflowing dhalaos (garbage dumps) and indiscriminate digging across the city becoming a common sight, residents in Noida are a worried lot, especially with the Met department announcing more rain in the next few days.

PALAKKAD: The Jana Jagrath, a people's vigilance organisation, has called for a vigilance inquiry into the irregularities in the construction of solid waste management project of the Palakkad municipality.

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Garbage management has been a long-pending issue
It would be either a treatment plant or a landfill
Councillors had blocked trucks with garbage
KOCHI: Thrikkakara municipality is actively considering a proposal to purchase about 10 acres of land for the scientific disposal and treatment of waste.

A decision to this effect was taken at a municipal council meeting held recently.

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