Garbage disposal
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing residents’ agitation against the garbage disposal in the Mavallipura locality and wants Palike to shut down the garbage dump yard in the area. The villagers staged protest and prevented garbage dumping into the landfill. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy has agreed to visit Mavallipura on Thursday. Health risk is [...] Continue Reading »
Bandipora, a north Kashmir town has been turned into a garbage dump with heaps of garbage present on the roadside in many wards including the main market. Locals said that traders and municipality employees dump garbage and as a result foul smell emanates from the garbage which makes movement of pedestrians difficult. Residents of ward [...] Continue Reading »
Representatives of the Kochu Veli Janakeeya Samithi said they would stage a sit-in in front of the railway station as the garbage from the city was being used for a platform construction project. The action council formed at Kochuveli in protest against the disposal of garbage at the railway station has decided to block garbage [...] Continue Reading »
Due to opposition from locals, the Pune Municipal Corporation‘s (PMC) efforts to decentralise garbage processing has halted with the state and civic body failing to acquire land to set up the processing units. A civic official said, the civic body had forwarded 17 land acquisition proposals to the district collector and some were finalised by the state [...] Continue Reading »
Civic body of Chandigarh has taken a new initiative for a cleaner city. Keeping more hygiene in mind, they have come up with plan of taking garbage directly to the garbage processing unit from each household then throwing it in “sehaj safai kendras” (SSK). This new plan will be initiated from Sector 22 from April [...] Continue Reading »
The garbage bins which were placed in every street of Chennai will be removed a few days later. Chennai Corporation has planned to install four to five large bins instead of the previous placed ones. This has been taken as a pilot project in ward 141 and will be used in all the other seven [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage disposal has been problem in Sector 10 for some time. Heaps of garbage has been deposited for three days in the area without getting noticed by the authorities. Bad stench and unpleasant view is becoming unbearable for the residents. The contractor had agreed to clean up the garbage but later refused to show up. [...] Continue Reading »
Residents in an apartment complex are already stressed with so many maintenance charges that if a new one gets introduced, nobody is ready to support it. Same is the case with the residents of Millennium City in Gurgaon. A new tax on solid waste management has been proposed which the residents have refused to pay. [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata is soon going to sight a new look of its garbage disposal system. In coming March, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has promised no overflowing of garbage from the bins. The civic body has taken initiative of replacing the earlier larger vessels into smaller movable compactors. These improved bins will be bought by Kolkata Environment [...] Continue Reading »
When waited for long then three more days would not matter much! Three corporation zones in Chennai have to pile up their garbage for three more days of delay. The reason being the firm taken up the initiative, Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited has postponed the work for time being. The scheduled clearance of garbage and [...] Continue Reading »
