Garbage Collection

The streets of Pimpri Chinchwad may soon look cleaner with less waste food thrown on them. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is planning to impose waste collection charges on the unauthorised roadside food stalls, vegetable and fruits hawkers. Though PCMC was awarded as the Best City in Asia for its cleanliness, of late there […]

As the entire city is celebrating the Ganesh festival with traditional gaiety and enthusiasm, a dozen Ganesh mandals on Karve Road have decided to participate in the zero garbage project of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Janwani. The initiative is to spread the message in every household in their area about the imperative need

Corporators had proposed, procuring vehicles for every ward, but the solid waste management (SWM) department said that it would be a waste of money since operating costs are high and not all wards need them. In this instance though, the SWM had solid reasons (pun intended) for turning down a proposal to procure rickshaw tempos

There is a lot of waste that reaches the roadside bin (each household generates almost 1/2 to 1 kg. of garbage per day). With increasing population in Pune city  the amount of waste generated has also increased so much that it cannot be easily disposed of by conventional methods such as land-filling. Dumping poses a

The city’s paper recycling alone saves the equivalent of 1,200 trees a day” (Curitiba, Brazil 1). Most retired city buses are reused as offices or mobile schools! From 1989-2007, the recycling organization has saved 419,000 tons of garbage- enough to fill 1,200 twenty story buildings. Plastic, paper, glass, aluminum, and inorganic waste totaled 13% of garbage

Researchers studying the ecological impact of tourism on Kas plateau have asked visitors to take back all the plastic they bring as there cannot be recycled locally. They found that plastic bottles, alcohol bottles and chips’ wrappers were often left behind by tourists. “While glass bottles can be resold, the plastic cannot be recycled locally.

Fire broke out at Phursungi garbage depot resulting in accumulation of waste in the city. To protest against the Pune Municipal Corporation’s inability to control the fire raging at the landfill site, Villagers from Phursungi and Uruli blocked trucks carrying waste from entering the garbage depot. As the fire is now under control and the

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will soon start generating 10 mega watt electricity from waste. The plant currently uses 300 metric tonne waste to generate 3 mega watt electricity. It will soon upgraded to take 700 metric tonne waste to generate 10 mega watt electricity. Pune city generates around 1,600 metric tonne garbage every day. Of which, waste to

The increase in population of the city has impacted the villages in the outskirts. This results in severe garbage problem. Almost every locality in and around the city, depends on the civic body for clearance of garbage. The civic body, which is working hard to collect and dispose garbage from all over the city, is

Ghats are becoming soft targets for people who want to get rid of unwanted non-biodegradable material. If they have material like thermocol, chemicals or plastic in large quantities they find it easy to dump it here. The forest department doesn’t have any control over it. Medicine dealers and medical representatives dump leftover medicine in ghats.