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As fire at Bhalswa landfill adds to Delhi’s smog, experts push for segregating waste at source, formalising garbage collection
Pallavirebbapragada • 7 years agoDelhi is all set to turn into a gas chamber once again and the methane from landfills like Bhalswa will only add to its woes. Experts suggest NCR needs a long-term solution, and segregating waste could be good place to start with
'You say you are Superman, but you don't do anything': SC slams Delhi L-G over garbage woes in capital
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe bench directed the office of the LG to file an affidavit by 16 July indicating the time frame on the steps it is supposed to take to deal with the situation.
Bengaluru conservancy workers remain unpaid for 5 months; civic officials claim all authorised employees received wages
Ymaheshwarareddy • 7 years agoDistressed by the non-payment of wages for over five months, a 37-year-old conservancy worker consumed poison and killed himself in Bengaluru's Guttahalli area on Sunday
Ghazipur landfill collapse: Mere shifting of site won't end air pollution, diseases; scientific disposal only way out
Kangkan Acharyya • 8 years agoThe locality where breathing is always a struggle and life only means a fight against deadly diseases.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: 1,100 towns, cities to be declared open defecation free by 2 October
• 8 years agoAround 1,100 towns and cities in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Kerala and Telangana are set to be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by 2 October, the day the Centre launched the ambitious 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' in 2014.
India needs New Delhi-size landfills for waste by 2050: Assocham report
Ians • 8 years agoWith India littering its waste without sufficient treatment, it needs to set aside about 88 sq. km of precious land—the size of New Delhi — for landfills by 2050, industry association Assocham said on Sunday, citing its study.
Waste management is imperative in Delhi as the national capital inches closer to another Deonar
Debobrat Ghose123 • 9 years agoThe Deonar dumping ground fire in Mumbai has not just exposed the fast deteriorating living conditions in India’s financial capital but also rung the alarm bells for the most notoriously polluted city of India — Delhi.
Ill-equipped Goa may not be part of Modi's Clean India plan
Fp Archives • 11 years agoGoa, one of the world's most popular beach tourism destinations, does not have a single efficiently functioning solid waste management plant