biomedical waste Citizen Matters

Delhi: 45 sanitation workers test positive for COVID, 15 succumb, but where are the yellow bins?

July 9, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

Municipal corporations have not sensitised people about the need to have a third bin. This puts sanitation workers at maximum risk, but also threatens citizens.

How Gurugram is managing biomedical waste from residential communities in the time of COVID-19

June 26, 2020 Monika Khanna Gulati

Despite the guidelines from CPCB, management of biomedical waste is proving to be tough on the ground at several levels. Some suggestions for Gurugram

Where should the waste from quarantine centres and COVID isolation wards go?

April 25, 2020 Ananya Tewari

Management of biomedical waste during COVID-19 pandemic plays a critical role in overall public health protection and health care workers’ safety. Here’s what the Central Pollution Control Board recommends.

City Buzz: Mumbai-Goa expressway | Bengal civic polls deferred | Water contamination in Ludhiana…and more

March 22, 2020 News Desk

Predictably, it has been the COVID-19 pandemic that has been on top of everyone’s minds this week. But here are some other important news that you may have missed.

Why cities like Vengurla and Panchgani could be idols for our metros

June 21, 2018 News Desk

In December 2017, the Forum of Cities that Segregate was instituted by the Centre for Science and Environment. Now a report assessing waste management in 20 forum cities shows that smaller cities may be showing the way.