Punjab considers replicating Lahore`s solid waste management model

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 19:40

Punjab government is considering a proposal to replicate the solid waste management model employed in Lahore in urban clusters of the state.

Actor Farooq Shaikh gave special Aid to Waste Pickers at an event in Delhi

Last Updated: Monday, March 18, 2013, 17:11

Future India Low Cost Housing Scheme along with Vidhi Asra Motion pictures organized a special awareness campaign for the welfare of waste Pickers in the capital.

E-waste, a growing concern for India!

Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 11:40

Even as India is trying to devise environmental friendly ways to dispose garbage, the specter of Electronical-waste (E-waste) destroying the balance of the nation’s ecological health has already started looming over.

Six tanks at Washington nuclear site leaking ‘radioactive waste`

Last Updated: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 13:19

Washington governor Jay Islee has revealed that six tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the southeast part of the state are leaking radioactive waste.

South Pole turning into waste dump

Last Updated: Sunday, February 10, 2013, 13:20

The South Pole is turning into a waste dump, with leftovers from experimental set-ups slowly decomposing. Mounds of rubbish, discarded oil cans, car batteries and some dangerous chemicals litter the South Pole.

Heat from cities alter weather thousands of miles away

Last Updated: Monday, January 28, 2013, 10:52

Scientists have concluded that the heat generated by everyday activities in metropolitan areas alters the character of the jet stream and other major atmospheric systems.

East Delhi has `historic waste` to clear: NGO activist

Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 17:07

The East Delhi Municipal Corporation(EDMC) needs to clean up "historic waste" before its "door-to-door waste collection" pilot project starts, the director of an NGO working in this area claims.

28 years later, women in Bhopal still waiting for justice

Last Updated: Monday, December 3, 2012, 23:58

Tens of thousands of victims of India`s worst ever industrial disaster the 1984 catastrophic gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal are still waiting for justice and women are suffering even more,Amnesty International said.

Bhopal tragedy: 28 yrs on, MP stuck with toxic waste

Last Updated: Sunday, December 2, 2012, 17:38

The toxic chemical waste at the Union Carbide plant premises here has not been disposed off in

Nuclear waste not to be dumped at Kolar gold mine: Govt to SC

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 21:13

With the people of Kolar in Karnataka vehemently protesting the government`s alleged plans to dump the nuclear waste in abandoned gold mine of the district, the Centre clarified before the SC that it has no such intentions.

For a plastic-free Delhi, but not everyone happy

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 10:29

Each of Delhi`s 14 million households uses about five plastic carry bags a day.

Bhopal gas tragedy: MP seeks panel to decide on waste disposal

Last Updated: Monday, October 22, 2012, 20:26

The Madhya Pradesh government today suggested composition of a sub-committee to decide on safe disposal of 346 tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas disaster site.