User: indiatogether Topic: Environment
Category: Waste Management :: Landfills
Last updated: Sep 06 2010 14:54 IST RSS 2.0
 
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Drive for plastic-free Jayanagar 6.9.2010 Hindu: Bangalore
Do not just ban plastic; hate it, declared Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner H. Siddaiah, while launching a plastic-free drive in Jayanagar Assembly constituency here on Sunda...
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Time we saw pigs as green agents (Cached) 5.9.2010 Hindustan Times: News
We often struggle to compost our wet waste, or feel guilty just letting it go. It really is a problem-in landfills and in the open, it decomposes and creates greenhouse gases. But here in India, despite a thriving piggery business, we have not yet looked at pigs as the green agents they are. If your wet waste is fed to a pig, there is no question of greenhouse gases. Bharati Chaturvedi writes.
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Jheel assault on official (Cached) 4.9.2010 Telegraph: Calcutta
Alleged Trinamul Congress activists, led by MLA Arup Biswas, dragged a fisheries department official by his collar to the edge of Bikramgarh Jheel and threatened to drown him when he went to inspect the south Calcutta water body on Friday morning.
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'Magical' process turns one kiwifruit into 100 bioplastic utensils (Cached) 3.9.2010 DNA: Top News
Scion, a Crown research institute in Rotorua, has developed technology to turn organic materials and waste into compostable bioplastics such as spoons and knifes, called 'spifes'.
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'Magical' process turns one kiwifruit into 100 bioplastic utensils! (Cached) 3.9.2010 New Kerala: India News
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Perish the thought, no dumping at Kanjurmarg for at least a year (Cached) 3.9.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Perish the thought, no dumping at Kanjurmarg for at least a year
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Plot owner runs into protest wall (Cached) 3.9.2010 Telegraph: Calcutta
A group of Bikramgarh residents, led by Trinamul councillors, has been resisting attempts by the owner of a plot to erect a wall on the ground that the land was originally part of a water body.
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Man charged for tax evasion after public feud with former Gov. Blagojevich (Cached) 31.8.2010 New Kerala: India News
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Binned there, dumped that (Cached) 30.8.2010 Mumbai Mirror
The Mughals, those connoisseurs of landscaping, built themselves perfumed gardens to escape the odours of Hindustan.In the Solid Waste Management department of the BMC the joke is about the odours of Mumbai: If you were blindfolded how would you know which part of the city you...
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Possibility of outbreak of disease if garbage not lifted in time: SMC (Cached) 27.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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MMRDA's projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore to be completed by 2013 (Cached) 26.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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Cash begins growing at Gorai dump yard (Cached) 26.8.2010 Mumbai Mirror
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has become the country's first civic body to earn and encash carbon credits, a kind of international rewards programme that encourages reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.And it's not a small sum -- the first cheque received by...
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Coastal Zone Management and Coastal Eco-System (Cached) 18.8.2010 Govt of india: PIB
Coastal Zone Management and Coastal Eco-System
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Mumbai choking on road dust: Study (Cached) 17.8.2010 TOI: Cities
Construction activity, including paved and unpaved road dust is responsible for as much as 38% of the emission load of particulate matter in Mumbai.
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City officials rapped at monthly Lok Adalat hearing (Cached) 16.8.2010 Citizen Matters

Forget the common man, not even the judiciary finds it easy to sway the state's government officials from perpetual indifference. At a Lok Adalat hearing on August 6th 2010, many top officials were pulled up by the judges for poor performance and lack of initiative. However, the babus wouldn't be swayed. After the session, many were seen joking about the whole affair.

Around 120 people including senior government officials and their subordinates, lawyers, members of non-governmental organisations and civil society groups were present at the hearing, held at the High Court.

Among the first to face the wrath…

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Yellama Cheruvu on verge of extinction? (Cached) 11.8.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Yellama Cheruvu on verge of extinction?
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BBMP to gift waste bins to every house (Cached) 11.8.2010 Bangalore Mirror: City
Will recycle garbage and turn it into revenue stream...
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Civic body blames city residents for not segregating waste at source 10.8.2010 Mumbai Mirror: City
Navi Mumbai: Segregation of garbage at source, as mandated under Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), management and handling rules 2000, poses a daunting task for the NMMC, that started providing the green-coloured bins to housing societies way back in ...
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Mavallipura's Illegal Dumps 10.8.2010 The South Asian
ESG's investigative report about Bangalore's toxic waste, its dumping in Mavallipura, and the impact on local communities in Mavallipura.
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Green signal to landfill site at Bawana (Cached) 9.8.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Green signal to landfill site at Bawana
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