Garbage Collection

After lakhs of cricket fans gave a rousing welcome to their beloved World Cup-winning Team India, thousands who trudged back home late on Thursday night had to return barefoot.

The amount of trash uncollected on Paris streets due to a waste workers strike has surged to 10,000 tonnes, despite efforts to force them back to duty, authorities said Friday.

The Greater Noida Authority today said it was introducing high-tech features like sticking QR codes outside houses and installing GPS and CCTV on vehicles carrying garbage in order to ensure efficient door-to-door waste collection.

Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra today sought the arrest of senior RSS leader Nimbaram in a graft case involving the alleged demand for Rs 20 crore as "commission" from a firm engaged in door-to-door garbage collection in Jaipur.

Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery, to highlight the need to save the world's tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site.

The municipal commissioner of a coastal city in Andhra Pradesh has declared war on indiscriminate garbage dumping in a unique way. He sends "return gifts" of domestic waste to residents who not hand it over to civic body-assigned garbage collectors.

The cafe is launched by South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and aims to eliminate plastic waste.

While the protest over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) entered fourth day at the Jamia Millia Islamia here on Tuesday, the students and locals kept on collecting the garbage thrown by the protestors and ensured that the streets outside the varsity campus remained clean.

In a move to get rid of stray dogs in the area, the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Sunday passed a resolution to offer free parking and 100% discount on the garbage collection fee to households for adopting stray dogs.

A 30-year-old man in Indore was on Thursday made to collect garbage from the streets as punishment for defecating out in the open in a city, which has won the ''cleanest city'' tag for three consecutive years.

Nepali climbers have retrieved four bodies and collected some 11 tonnes of decades-old garbage from Mount Everest and its approach below the base camp as part of a drive to clean up the world's highest mountain, the government said on Wednesday.

The Nepalese government on Monday concluded its clean-up drive of the Mount Everest and said it had collected nearly 11 tonnes of trash that had piled up on the peak for decades.

A total of 3,000 kg of solid waste has been collected from Mount Everest since April 14 when Nepal launched a clean-up campaign.

Hundreds of people sifted through a vast wasteland of rubbish strewn across a beach in Indonesia on Thursday, underscoring the Southeast Asian archipelago's mammoth marine waste problem.

In one of Chicago's homeless encampments, a haphazard collection of tents and flimsy dwellings made of assorted tarps and blankets are scattered among barren trees. Nearby, stuffed garbage bags and beat-up cardboard boxes are strewn about in messy piles on the snow-covered ground.

After lakhs of cricket fans gave a rousing welcome to their beloved World Cup-winning Team India, thousands who trudged back home late on Thursday night had to return barefoot.

The amount of trash uncollected on Paris streets due to a waste workers strike has surged to 10,000 tonnes, despite efforts to force them back to duty, authorities said Friday.

The Greater Noida Authority today said it was introducing high-tech features like sticking QR codes outside houses and installing GPS and CCTV on vehicles carrying garbage in order to ensure efficient door-to-door waste collection.

Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra today sought the arrest of senior RSS leader Nimbaram in a graft case involving the alleged demand for Rs 20 crore as "commission" from a firm engaged in door-to-door garbage collection in Jaipur.

Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery, to highlight the need to save the world's tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site.

The municipal commissioner of a coastal city in Andhra Pradesh has declared war on indiscriminate garbage dumping in a unique way. He sends "return gifts" of domestic waste to residents who not hand it over to civic body-assigned garbage collectors.

The cafe is launched by South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and aims to eliminate plastic waste.

While the protest over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) entered fourth day at the Jamia Millia Islamia here on Tuesday, the students and locals kept on collecting the garbage thrown by the protestors and ensured that the streets outside the varsity campus remained clean.

In a move to get rid of stray dogs in the area, the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Sunday passed a resolution to offer free parking and 100% discount on the garbage collection fee to households for adopting stray dogs.

A 30-year-old man in Indore was on Thursday made to collect garbage from the streets as punishment for defecating out in the open in a city, which has won the ''cleanest city'' tag for three consecutive years.

Nepali climbers have retrieved four bodies and collected some 11 tonnes of decades-old garbage from Mount Everest and its approach below the base camp as part of a drive to clean up the world's highest mountain, the government said on Wednesday.

The Nepalese government on Monday concluded its clean-up drive of the Mount Everest and said it had collected nearly 11 tonnes of trash that had piled up on the peak for decades.

A total of 3,000 kg of solid waste has been collected from Mount Everest since April 14 when Nepal launched a clean-up campaign.

Hundreds of people sifted through a vast wasteland of rubbish strewn across a beach in Indonesia on Thursday, underscoring the Southeast Asian archipelago's mammoth marine waste problem.

In one of Chicago's homeless encampments, a haphazard collection of tents and flimsy dwellings made of assorted tarps and blankets are scattered among barren trees. Nearby, stuffed garbage bags and beat-up cardboard boxes are strewn about in messy piles on the snow-covered ground.