Solid Waste Management
Ammu Ravichandran the president of Theeyambakkam panchayat reported saying that the smaller municipalities in Chennai do not have enough funds to develop world-class infrastructure. However the Chennai Corporation has been fare than the suburban bodies as they claim funds from the State government. Nearly 44.5 lakh voters will be choosing their Mayor and also 200 [...] Continue Reading »
The cleanliness plan to fight malaria and dengue cases in Ahmedabad city. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) claimed that collection of wastes and garbage are being left over since long time, henceforth spreading out epidemic outbreaks all over the city. One of the senior municipal official belonging to solid waste management department reported saying that [...] Continue Reading »
The civic officials in Mumbai have found to be running loss to effectively follow up the waste disposal system, nearly 6,000 odd tones of waste that can be re-cycled and also the non-degradable that are dumped frequently. The sites where the dumping is encouraged is traced out to be illegal. The dearth waste being dumped [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore city’s RWAs and urban experts took part in an interactive session organized by Namma Bengaluru Foundation here on Saturday.The experts panel comprising ABIDe member Ashwin Mahesh, Solid Waste Management Round Table member Meenakshi Bharat and Champion of Gandhigiri protest (Sachidanand Nagar RWA) Shankar Prasad discussed various civic issues of the city right from garbage [...] Continue Reading »
Resident Welfare Association (RWA) of L B Shastrinagar started a noble cause of sorting out the wet waste In 2006, the Resident’s Welfare Association (RWA) in L B Shastrinagar, started working on an anti-plastic drive. Three years ago, little did hard core techie Suresh Kumar think that a seminar on environment would usher in a [...] Continue Reading »
Every day the satellite township produces over 300 tonnes of municipal waste. In the absence of an efficient waste management system or even a designated landfill site, residents of Noida have started taking matters into their own hands are making innovative efforts to manage waste. Residents explained that the root of the problems lies in [...] Continue Reading »
Though BBMP Bangalore has made it mandatory for taxpayers to pay solid waste management cess along with property tax, the cess is based, not on population, but on the size of the house. The Palike, it seems, hasn’t done any ground work to determine the average number of persons staying in a house built on [...] Continue Reading »
on Day 1 of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Zero-Garbage Week, a total of 150 unauthorized waste dumps in the city were identified. The drive, to go on till May 8, is not only aimed at keeping the city litter-free,but also studying the patterns of garbage generation so that the routes of waste collection vehicles can [...] Continue Reading »
The chairman of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), AS Sadashivaiah suggested that micro or even nano systems of solid waste management should be implemented in the city. He says that the waste management should begin from apartments, restaurants and households by installing small-scale waste treatment plants in apartments. He said that the system [...] Continue Reading »
The proposal of charging a cess for garbage will soon be implemented if the proposals of the finance and taxation committee of BBMP are approved.The committee will meet Today (on Tuesday) to discuss this and other issues relating to solid waste management such as review proposals on garbage disposal and the process of initiating tenders [...] Continue Reading »
