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Chennai: Recycling waste from tanneries, Chennai-based Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) and Delhi

A section of public hearing participants wants the Corporation to shift the yard from Kodungaiyur

Making a point: A participant expressing his view at the public hearing on the integrated solid waste management project at Kodungaiyur, in Chennai on Friday.

Awareness programme for officials representing rural development department in Thane district

On waste management: C. Srinivasan, Project Director, Indian Green Service, at a training programme in Vellore on Wednesday.

After unsuccessful attempts over the last two years, the Margao Municipal Council is all set to revive the door-to-door garbage collection of waste from the city hotels and eateries.

In a bid to have better outcome in biomedical waste management through upgraded technology, the Directorate Health Services (DHS) has gone into overdrive to have new biomedical waste management (BMW) facilities, one at Okhla and other at Nilothi in outer Delhi.

K. Lakshmi

CHENNAI: Areas in the western fringes of the city along the CTH Road share a common woe

KOCHI: The failure to implement projects formulated to manage domestic waste at its place of origin has led to the current waste management crisis in the city, former Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary P C Cyriac said here on Saturday.

LUCKNOW: The site for the proposed municipal solid waste management (MSW) project would undergo yet another environmental scrutiny on June 14, when the state environment directorate would look into objections pertaining to environmental threat from the project.

Local bodies are taking an independent decision on basic facilities like drinking water, streetlights, cleanliness and road. Hence, the burden of government is lessened, said Home Minister Dr V S Acahrya.

Ludhiana: Plastic bags, which have been banned by the majority of states in the country, will now be used by the Punjab Government in the construction of roads. With their usage, roads will not only present a brighter look, but will be more strengthened. While using plastic bags in bitumen, the state government will save approximately Rs 2 lakh per km on road construction.