Pune The revenue department officials of the collectorate have been assessing five sites in the city, which can be used for solid waste management, and thus ease pressure off the present garbage dump at Urali Devachi.

It may be recalled that Collector Chandrakant Dalvi has assured the villagers of Urali Devachi that an alternative site would be made available in seven months time.

CHENNAI: Conservancy agency Neel Metal Fanalca will introduce a new system of source segregation of garbage from June 15 in four zones of the Chennai Corporation, according to its vice-president G.Thirugnanasambandam.

Responding to the show-cause notices issued by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), a number of industrialists on Wednesday clarified their position with regard to their failure to meet the safe environmental standards, a source in the agency said.

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In a bid to introduce Solid Waste Management System in the city, the Noida Authority has identified three locations for landfill sites. In a preliminary discussion with HUDCO, the Noida Authority has asked the technical consultants to provide a detailed project report on the latest technology and the viable options available for disposal of wastes.

PANJIM (HND): Wendell Rodricks, Chairman of Green Goa Works in a recently held press conference in Panjim, informed all villagers to commence weekly garbage collection programme and offered assistance of Green Goa Works for this programme and its execution.

Bali once had a reputation as a tropical idyll. But the unfettered expansion of mass tourism on the island has created mountains of trash, overwhelming the ability of the Balinese, who traditionally wrapped and served food in palm leaves or other biodegradable plant material, to manage the mess. Plastic and other waste has simply been dumped or burned.

AHMEDABAD: Godrej group's proposed 270-acre Ahmedabad township Godrej Garden City has made it to the 16 founding projects being taken up globally by Clinton Climate Initiative's Climate Positive Development Programme (CPDP) for clean and green urban development.