Two Cuban research centres have started using bacteria to treat the oil contaminated water in several parts of the Caribbean island in order to reduce the presence of hydrocarbons in soil and water bodies in the country.

KOCHI: With the city reeling under severe waste treatment problem, many measures initiated by the District Sanitation Mission is going awry for want of proper attendance from the authorities.

Social activists speak out against plant
The agitation against the City Corporation's garbage-treatment plant at Vilappilsala received a shot in the arm on Saturday, with speakers at a convention expressing solidarity with the stir and calling for a shut down of the project.

Goa Government has refused to fund Corporation of the City of Panjim’s proposed garbage treatment project at Bainguinnim this year, although Goa Government steering committee had trumpeted that there was no need to apply for funding under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and instead state government would fund it.

District Collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed said that a plot of land will be identified for a new waste treatment plant to find a permanent solution to the issue of waste management in Eloor municipality.

Laws to curb poultry waste dumping in public
The district is set to pilot the State government's comprehensive waste disposal project. Minister for Industries P.K. Kunhalikutty said here on Friday that Malappuram district was chosen to pilot the project considering its problems in waste disposal.

The Corporation is planning to rope in a national agency for completing the leg work for floating the expression of interest. Bids from at least three nationally recognised agencies, which have expertise in the solid waste management sector, will be invited. The selected agency will be responsible for the floating of the Expression of Interest and completing the basic paper work related to the project, said T.K. Ashraf, chairman of the Health Standing Committee of the Corporation.

RAWALPINDI, Jan 8: A private company was on Saturday given the task to generate fuel from garbage after buying it daily from the city government, with the hopes that Rawalpindi will have a cleaner

The work on the much-needed bioelectric central Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) is nearing completion and the plant will go into operation on July 30. This was informed at a media briefing, arranged by Water Systems (BD) Ltd, a joint-venture company setting up the plant, at the site here today.