The Margao Municipal Council on Monday got a new Chief Officer, Prassana Acharya who has vowed to streamline and simplify the office procedure to make it people friendly and has proposed waste segregation at source to tackle the garbage problem.
Acharya also disclosed plans to create a website of the Margao municipal Council at the earliest.

L. Renganathan

Being implemented in 12 wards of Kulithalai Municipality

GOOD EFFORT: Students on an exposure visit to the compost yard of Kulithalai Municipality that is implementing the solid waste management programme.

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of World Bank, has pledged assistance to Waste Management Corporation (WMC) to eliminate waste collected across the country.

utside of its organization, Sri Lanka

In a bid to accommodate a wider expanse of community needs both within and outside of its organization, Sri Lanka

The effects of vermicompost on the rate of growth of a variety of ornamentals, vegetables and medicinal plants have been assessed in the greenhouse and some field crops.

The general concept behind this dissertation work is municipal solid waste management. Solid wastes and its composites affect the environment in several ways. And the major problems to be considered are the generation of leachate from solid waste dumping sites, which affects the groundwater aquifers.

COIMBATORE: The Rs.96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Scheme of the Coimbatore Corporation is well on course, according to Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.

CHENNAI: A three-member team of senior engineers of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has said that a nearly 65-acre site at Kuthambakkam, near Poonamallee, where a Solid Waste Management Facility is proposed, is not a suitable location for establishing the facility. This is because rainwater which collects in this area reaches the Chembarambakkam Lake, a major water source for Chennai.

BARC to help deal with waste The Bombay high court on July 21 set up a four-member committee to look into the feasibility of decentralized waste management in Mumbai. The court passed the order on a petition by the Smoke Affected Residents Forum, formed by Chembur residents, affected by pollution from the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai

Pages