waste dumping
Garbage contractors staged a protest in front of the office of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner demanding security for their vehicles and to take care of the garbage dumped at landfills. Rajneesh Goel, BBMP Commissioner declared that the BBMP would form a squad of five officials who will manage the sites during night [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore turned into a sprawling landfill with heaps of garbage across the city. Heaps of garbage were found in front of the Legislators’ Home in the vicinity of Vidhana Soudha. Bungalows of ministers, the residence of minister for Kannada and culture Govind Karajol also witnessed piled up thrash. Residents worry that even pourakarmikas kept silent [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is seriously working on the sanitation issues in the city. They have wrote to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) seeking permission to dump garbage from the city over 22 acres of land over to the civic body authority. Communities around Mandur are keeping a strict vigilance to [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore civic administration has promised to rid the city from thousands of tonnes of overflowing garbage. However, search for land to dump garbage is not yet over. The residents around Mandur, about 45 km north of Bangalore, have agreed to resumption of dumping of garbage in the area on the fulfillment of certain conditions. The [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP is on the hunt to identify vacant land in Bangalore to dump garbage. They are searching for available land on the outskirts to dump garbage on a temporary basis. Sources reveal that BMTC’s rocky vacant land in city limits will be used as temporary dump yards. The deputy mayor’s efforts to convince the villagers [...] Continue Reading »
The complaints of the residents of localities in Ward 44 of the Coimbatore Corporation seem to be growing louder. The Southern Railway has 53 acres on the western side of the road that connects Sanganoor Road with Nallampalayam Road. The land stocks garbage, waste from poultries and meat shops, and construction debris. Added to that, [...] Continue Reading »
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued a show cause notice to Vapi Waste and Effluent Management Co. Pvt. Ltd (VWEMCL) for neglecting the precautionary steps mandatory ahead of the monsoon at the common solid waste management site. Industrial sludge had spread into the fields and orchards near Vapi after a protection wall of the [...] Continue Reading »
The hazardous waste being dumped in Hussainsagar Lake has been a contentious issue for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). In order to dredge the hazardous material out of the lake, the authority has decided to use the services of Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI). The lake cleaning project has been taken up [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is geared up to check the tendency among citizens to dump garbage at places other than the designated spots and to end this night patrolling has been started to make sure the city remains clean and garbage free. As the new initiative begins, NMC officials have imposed fine on hawkers [...] Continue Reading »
The road connecting Kalamassery to the International Container Transshipment Terminal Vallarpadam (container road) became a dump yard of construction waste. As the area is blocked by the backwater and a island, the waste dumping posing a threat to the existence of the water bodies and vegetation, including mangrove forests. The National Highway Authority of India [...] Continue Reading »
