Only 13 Out Of 27 Units Operational: PMC

Pune: Only 50% of the biogas plants set up in the city with an aim to decentralize garbage processing system are functioning.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has 27 biogas plants with a joint capacity to process about 133 tonne garbage.At present,only 65tonne is processed in 13 plants which are functional.

The Corporation, which was faced with a major crisis in waste movement, can heave a sigh of relief for the time being after the existing contractor entrusted with the operation of the civic body’s

The septage treatment plant in Ernakulam will be completed in six months and it will be followed by the one in Alappuzha and Palakkad.

Modern garbage treatment plants with the latest technology will be set up in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode, Minister for Urban Affairs Manjalamkuzhi Ali told the Assembly on Wednesday.

Stating that the untreated solid waste were dumped in open causing environmental hazardousness, a resolution was passed in the Grama Sabha meeting at Chettichavadi Panchayat here on Sunday seeking

District Panchayat Convenes Emergency Meet Today

Kochi: The district panchayat has convened an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the growing complaints of sewage and septic waste being dumped in the outskirts of the city. Most of these complaints are from Perumbavoor, Kunnathunadu and Muvattupuzha, which have turned a dumpyard for waste suspected to be from residences in Kochi.

A five-member Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Shimla, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, in its orders on January 2, 2014, had issued show-cause notices to the Secretary, Municipal Coun

Work will be done by a private company for a year

The City Municipal Corporation has decided to hire a private company to carry out solid waste management in 21 wards for a period of one year.

A protest march was taken out in Okhla in South Delhi on Sunday against the release of toxic emissions from a waste treatment plant run by a private company.

CALANGUTE: Shareholders of Calangute Comunidade have decided to challenge the arbitrary decision of the government to acquire huge portion of land to set up Solid Waste Management plant at Saligao/

Kochi: In a bid to control agencies disposing e-waste from the district, the Pollution Control Board (PCB) will soon bring out a notification to ensure that only authorized agencies are involved in