Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has opened solid waste management offices in some targeted wards in the city to improve its waste collection system.

As solid waste management requires close cooperation of the citizens, they can make recommendations, comments or lodge complaints to the ward waste management offices so that the DCC can respond promptly, DCC sources told BSS on Wednesday.

Kannal Achuthan, Chennai: Solid waste management experts, from various parts of the country, presented innovative and feasible models of handling municipal garbage at a meeting here on Tuesday.

The plastic waste management project, "Pilisaru Pola" is scheduled to commence work today (11) at 9.00 am at the Princess of Wales College, Moratuwa.
Central Environmental Authority chairman, Udaya Gammanpila and the Moratuwa Municipal Council chairman, Saman Lal Fernando will be present to grace the occasion.

By Krithika R and Sreshta A, DH News Services, Bangalore:

Hyderabad, Nov. 5: The State House Committee on Environment and Wild Life Protection, as per its recommendations to the government, is all set to ensure continuous and strategic vigilance to prevent sabotage and poaching of animals and to protect the environment.

Nalini Ravichandran | Chennai,

CANACONA, NOV 3
Garbage management in rural areas has received some boost, with the commissioning of long-awaited shredder machine in Canacona.
The shredder machine installed at a specially erected shade near Shrishthal panchayat was inaugurated by Zilla Panchayat (South) President Cleofacio Dias on Monday morning.

COIMBATORE: A fervent call for segregation of waste at the point of generation, a warning that licences of shops will be revoked if they littered their environs and emphasis on awareness on these marked a recent review by District Collector V. Palanikumar of the status of solid waste management across the district.