The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has initiated an e-waste management programme for the first time in Sri Lanka with the co-operation of some of the private companies, Chairman of the CEA,

Ranchi, Nov.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked a Chennai- based NGO to conduct an area-wise survey for implementing an effective solid waste management project in the city, member mayor-in-council (Solid waste management), Mr Debabrata Majumder, said today.

The six-member team of the NGO, Indian Green Service (IGS), visited KMC and later gave a presentation on their activities regarding solid w

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Former ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair released a compendium titled

Finland on Tuesday expressed its willingness to offer new technologies to the Delhi Government in the field of waste management, improvement in sewer management and multi-utility pipe and cabling management during a meeting of its Ambassador in India Terhi Hakala and counsellor Juha Pyykko with Delhi Urban Development and Finance Minister A. K. Walia at his office in Delhi Secretariat.

CHENNAI: A member of a SC Committee on Solid Waste, Almitra Patel, has written to CM M Karunanidhi and Deputy CM M K Stalin asking them to intervene and protect the Chembarambakkam Lake from landfill pollution.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the Government is planning to develop environment-friendly townships in the coastal region of the State and promised special schemes for the developers who would participate in the initiative.

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