Fallen dry leaves littered all over the roads were a grave matter of concern for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) till now, but the agency has found an eco-friendly way of their disposal. As their shifting to Sanitary Landfill Sites (SLF) is a costly affair, the civic body has decided to bury the “trouble” in neighbourhood parks. After much deliberation, Municipal Commissioner KS Mehra recently has issued directions to dispose dry leaves off in compost pits constructed in civic body’s parks or bury them there in a ditch.

Operating agency to pull out of waste management project

The city Corporation has more to worry than the people's agitation and legal tangle in the operation of the beleaguered Vilappilsala solid waste treatment plant. With the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) deciding to back out from the technical support and operating agency role (for the plant), the Corporation is caught in a delicate situation over the running of the facility.

Says she is unable to take decision on waste-disposal crisis
The closure of the Vilappilsala solid-waste treatment plant is an act of ‘democratic violation' on the part of the Vilappil panchayat, Mayor K. Chandrika has said.

She was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on source-level waste management organised by the Suchitwa Mission here on Tuesday.

There is a strong possibility that Delhi's potable water has got contaminated with toxic dyes after the immersion of idols on Durga Puja last week and earlier during the Ganesh festival.

"Many idols are immersed upstream in the Wazirabad area, from where Delhi gets its drinking water supply, and water treatment plants are not efficient enough to treat dyes and other chemicals," Ravi Aggarwal of NGO Toxics Link told IANS.

New Delhi: The city

NOIDA: With garbage strewn on the roads, overflowing dhalaos (garbage dumps) and indiscriminate digging across the city becoming a common sight, residents in Noida are a worried lot, especially with the Met department announcing more rain in the next few days.

KOLKATA, 16 JUNE: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has got permission from the Pollution Control Board for sanitary land filling in the Ramsar area, member, mayor-in-council (Solid Waste Management), Mr Debabrata Majumder, said today.
Mr Majumder said around 52 hectare has been earmarked for setting up the second Dhapa dumping ground in the Ramsar area but the KMC will only use 17.75 hectare of

MUMBAI: After earning a handsome advance on the delivery of carbon credits from 'scientifically' closing down the Gorai dump yard, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hoped to pocket a three times bigger amount once the curtains went down on Deonar, the city's oldest waste site.