The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Saturday said that it has cleared over 18000 metric tons of construction and demolition waste from prominent locations across the national capital during a drive conducted in the month of October.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is considering plans to penalize the housing societies and residential complexes against dumping of solid waste into canals randomly.
City and district schools are being taught about circular economy, which means judiciously managing the waste generated to convert it into means of earning money from it.
The Union Minister, today while speaking to media said, “After a review and the progress of three weeks of the Swachhata Special Campaign 3.0, it is being implemented in all government offices across the country"
Getting biometric attendance registered and leaving home without doing their duty, a section of conservancy staff of Kolkata Municipal Corporation is alleged to be taking advantage of the new system, leaving the roads in a mess.
Two UK researchers, who are alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), have developed a new method to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial processes -- or even directly from the air -- to clean, sustainable fuels, using just the energy from the sun.
"This change should significantly reduce the existing 550-tonne single-use plastic waste per day," the member secretary, Delhi Pollution Control Committee said.
It is estimated that more than 10 million weddings take place in India every year and all of these celebrations leave behind truckloads of trash in the form of discarded plastic cutlery, used flowers and a large amount of food, etc.
The Technology Park is a pilot, providing end-to-end solutions for waste management, from semi-automated segregation of municipal solid waste to on-site compaction and treatment of the waste to demonstrate conversion of open dumpsites (dhalaos) to decentralized waste processing sites.
The medical concept of care and cure appears to have been binned with the detection of anti-diabetic, anti-epileptic, and pain-relieving drugs in river water in Delhi and Hyderabad, thus making a mockery of the prognosis of an ailment. The canker is palpable no less in Iceland, Venezuela, New York, London, Glasgow, Bolivia, Ethiopia, and Lahore.
