Garbage Collection

The Environment Status Report (ESR) for 2011-12, exposes the administration’s claim of achieving 100% processing. The city’s garbage collection is going up by 5% every year. The ESR states that the processing units function up to 70% of their capacity because of the gaps in garbage collection, electricity problems, machinery breakdown, maintenance and other local […]

The hilly area of Bhavani Temple (kothrud) is facing garbage disposal problem.  Services of the garbage vehicle of PMC (Pune Municipal Corporation) are not available at the site resulting into the pilling of the garbage and unease in the area. The priest of the temple said they segregate wet and dry garbage and they store wet

The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Vishrambaug-Kasba regional ward office caught a truck red-handed while dumping debris on the riverbed behind Vartak Gartak, and recovered a fine of Rs 25,000. The truck was confiscated and later returned after the owner removed the dumped debris. Assistant municipal commissioner and Kasba regional ward officer Arun Khilari said the

The Environment Status Report (ESR) for 2011-12, exposes the administration’s claim of achieving 100% processing. The city’s garbage collection is going up by 5% every year. The ESR states that the processing units function up to 70% of their capacity because of the gaps in garbage collection, electricity problems, machinery breakdown, maintenance and other local

More urban women are using hi-fibre sanitary napkins. The muslin nappy for babies has been replaced by thick diapers and none of these are biomedical waste , yet, are toxic. Waste pickers injure hand from pins and glass pieces. But the worst form of waste, sanitary napkins and diapers. In an attempt to reduce these encounters with

Recently, a city based non-governmental organization Janadhar has taken an initiative to convert kitchen waste into fertilizers and the first stock of three tonne fertilizer was supplied to farmers from Mulshi tehsil of Pune district. The kitchen waste and huge piles of dumped vegetables at the wholesale market will no longer be the food for stray

Garbage is one of the biggest problem for Pune. Garbage issue has acquired serious dimensions and serious efforts must be taken to resolve it. Yashwantrao Chavan Shahar Swachhata Abhiyan carried out a meeting with members of 16 societies at Dhankawadi in presence of Suresh Jagtap, head of solid waste management department of PMC. During the