ALAPPUZHA: The waste treatment plant of Alappuzha Municipality at Sarvodayapuram in Mararikkulam South grama panchayat is ready for commissioning by August.

With this, the longstanding demand of the people for a scientific garbage treatment centre here is being fulfilled.

Will a garbage treatment plant finally become a reality at the Sonsodo waste dumping site by April 30, 2010?
Despite failed deadlines, the Civic body strongly believes that a land fill site and a waste treatment plant will be set up at Sonsodo by April next year. An undertaking to this effect will be filed in the High Court next week.

Initiative to clean slums in four zones to be launched today
New TOOLS: Sanitary workers with new tricycles at a rally organised to create awareness on source segregation on Monday.

CHENNAI: Chennai Corporation and Neel Metal Fanalca organised a rally as part of an awareness programme on source segregation on Monday.

Ever wondered what happens to all the waste you generate and where it goes after it is mindlessly dumped? Reports indicate that a good 99 per cent of people have never bothered or even know what happens thereafter. The responsibility of collection of waste obviously has to rest with the municipal board of the city.

Goa

The Margao Municipal Council has decided to place before the special meeting of the Council scheduled on June 15, the proposals received from Ramky Enviro Pvt Ltd and Fomento-IL&FS to set up the 50-ton garbage treatment plant at Sonsodo.

CUTTACK: Solid waste management, one of the major civic problems of the millennium city, seems set for a huge boost with plans mooted for setting up a common facility for proper handling and treatment of the waste generated in the Twin City of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

The Lok Adalat, which took the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials to task for failing to initiate action against the nine government hospitals that failed to initiate measures to establish effluent treatment plant (ETP) to treat bio-medical waste, has warned of action if they fail to do so by June 18.