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Solid waste management, still challenging [1]

Experts in SWM call for measures to promote segregation of waste at source and efficient disposal system
In the past few weeks, conservancy workers have been working overtime to clear garbage that has piled up across the city. Apart from being an eyesore, the overflowing waste bins pose health hazards. Garbage is clogging canals and choking stormwater drains in parts of Pulianthope, Adyar, Kodambakkam and Triplicane zones.

Publication Date: 
29/08/2011
Deepa H Ramakrishnan [2]
Hindu (Chennai) [3]
Tags:
Chennai (T) [4], Waste Management [5], Waste Disposal [6], Garbage [7], Health Effects [8], Water Harvesting [9], Municipal Corporation [10], Plastics [11], Waste Recycling [12], Coimbatore (D) [13], State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) [14], Solid Waste [15]
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