waste management

Centre earns Rs 500 crore from office scrap disposal during cleanliness campaign 3 in October: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh

The centre collected Rs 500 crore by disposing of office scrap during the recently concluded cleanliness drive.

France: Garbage piles up all over Paris after sanitation workers join pension age strike, refuse to collect waste

On Wednesday, 1.7 million people, according to the hard-left Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) trade union federation, while 480,000, according to the interior ministry, took to the streets nationwide against…

Brahmapuram waste plant fire turns Kochi into a ‘gas chamber’, HC lambasts Kerala govt: here is all you need to know

The bench noted that there are a large number of water bodies in the state which have been converted into dump sites. 

Kochi, Kerala: Brahmapuram Waste Plant fire raging since March 2, opposition asks govt to declare a health emergency

"Now itself is a serious matter. Unfortunately, what the minister for Local Self Government Department (LSGD) answered in the assembly was not fact. Even the next day high court judge…