The city Corporation on Monday conducted a workshop for councillors to create awareness on the decentralised source-level waste treatment project.

A pilot project for household-level solid waste treatment units will take off at the Muttada ward on November 15. Around 250 units, including biogas plants and vermicompost and ring compost pits, will be installed at Muttada under the project.

Five agencies, shortlisted for providing solid waste treatment units such as biogas plants, vermicompost, and ring compost to city households, demonstrated their products at a meeting chaired by Mayor K. Chandrika here on Saturday. The initiative is part of the decentralised garbage treatment project of the city Corporation.

Meet on waste management calls for total ban on plastic

Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) that makes manufacturers responsible for disposal of non-biodegradable waste generated by their products is among the recommendations made to the government by heads of urban local bodies at a workshop on ‘Decentralised waste management,' organised by the Suchitwa Mission, here on Monday.

LUCKNOW: If projections of UP Jal Nigam are anything to go by, then the state capital may have its streets free of callously dumped domestic waste by November when the much-awaited municipal solid

With local bodies across the State struggling to cope with the mounting garbage problem, the government has launched a new initiative to promote decentralised methods of solid waste management usin

Processing at source may be made mandatory
Kerala may be in for stringent legislation on waste management as waste remains a major environmental and health hazard in the State.

The Legislature Committee on Environment recommended in its report submitted early this year that law should be brought to make waste processing mandatory at the source itself. Housing colonies, hotels and restaurants, resorts, hospitals, hostels, slaughterhouses, and markets should not be allowed to function if they failed to treat their waste.

Failure to inaugurate Rs 1 crore garbage treatment plant at Dumane has resulted in CMC not servicing certain areas and dumping collected garbage behind its own building.

LDF accused of adopting apathetic attitude

Minister for Industries and Urban Development P.K. Kunhalikutty inaugurated ‘Suchitwotsavam,' a cleaning drive under the aegis of the district sanitation mission as part of the Nirmal Bharat project undertaken by the Union Ministry for Rural Development across the country, on the beach here on Sunday.

The Rs 90 lakh garbage treatment plant at Canacona sits idle, as people wait for the Municipal Council and Forest Department to iron out difference over an approach road.