The Gurgaon administration on Thursday challaned shopkeepers at various malls and shopping complexes across the city for using banned polythene bags.
Based on a directive issued by Deputy Commissioner P C Meena, a team lead by Sub-Divisional Magistrate (South) Captain Manoj conducted surprise checking at malls and multiplexes, and fined erring outlet owners. Challans worth over Rs 20,000 were issued in a single day, officials said.

BHUBANESWAR: Even as use of polythene bags of below 40 micron were banned in the city last year, implementation of the ban is far from satisfactory with a large number of shopkeepers still using them. Not just polythene bags, the ban is applicable to gutka sachets as well. As per the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Amendment Rules, 2011, use of polythene bags thinner than 40 micron is banned. For a city that generates over 500 metric tonnes of garbage on a daily basis, a majority of that being plastic waste, these polythene bags result in pollution in many ways.

The Grand Canyon will soon ban the sale of bottled water, responding to concerns that empty plastic bottles scattered around the park are spoiling views of the natural wonder.

The National Park Service has approved a plan that would eliminate the sale of bottled water within 30 days, after nearly $290,000 was spent to install 10 water stations inside the park. Visitors can use the stations to refill their own water bottles, which they can tote in from the outside.

As many as 172 roads in the new areas of Chennai Corporation will be taken up for integrated redevelopment. Stormwater drains, pavements, streetlights and ducts for electrical cables would be provided besides re-laying of the roads under the project.

The new initiative would cover 112 km of roads in the Tiruvottiyur, Manali, Madhavaram, Ambattur, Valasaravakkam, Alandur, Perungudi and Sholinganallur zones of the civic body.

Erring traders warned not to flout rules

With the Summer tourist season round the corner and many here particularly those belonging to the green minded sections of society expressing the view that it is the right time to step up the drive against plastics in the Nilgiris, the district administration has asked local bodies to intensify their anti-plastic campaign. In tune with a directive issued by the Nilgiris Collector, Archana Patnaik, civic officials raided a number of shops here on Monday.

Local people say miscreants set fire to the waste material

The practice of dumping biomedical waste in the open continues unchecked in a few parts of Erode district though the health department has issued specific instructions on the safe disposal of such waste.

Reopening the waste treatment plant at Villappilsala at the earliest, entrusting its running to competent agencies, and rescheduling door-to-door waste collection to the evenings. These are some of the proposals in a 10-point agenda chalked out by the State unit of the WWF- India to resolve the issue of solid waste management (SWM) in the city Corporation limits.

The roads are in new areas of the Chennai Corporation

As many as 172 roads in the new areas of Chennai Corporation will be taken up for integrated redevelopment. Stormwater drains, pavements, streetlights and ducts for electrical cables would be provided besides re-laying of the roads under the project.

The traders of Chungathara in the district are leading the way in creating a clean and garbage-free village.

Aiming at total cleanliness, the traders, under the banner of the Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samiti (KVVES), secured the assistance of the Chungathara grama panchayat, the Total Sanitation and Health Mission (TSHM), the Mar Thoma College, and the National Service Scheme (NSS) unit of Mar Thoma Higher Secondary School in its effort to devise a cleanliness project titled ‘clean village, beautiful village.'

The Forest Department would enforce strict monitoring mechanism at Ponmudi Eco-Tourism counter to check the dumping of plastic waste and bottles at the tourism spot. As part of this, the department had introduced the collection of caution deposit at the checkpost to ensure that bottles are not left in the Ponmudi region.

The officials would collect Rs 50 for each bottle that would be carried by a tourist to Ponmudi which would be reimbursed on their return.