Disposal of waste has been the biggest challenge for all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) including the fast growing Mysuru city. With generation of around 500 tonnes of waste daily, disposing it off has become a big problem due to resistance from local public against having solid waste processing units in their areas. As new Layouts…
Nauseating Stench: Meat waste plant leaves residents of Old Kesare and surrounding areas gasping for clean air
June 23, 2019If Saadat Hasan Manto, writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana during the British Raj became famous with his Urdu short story “Boo” that means “Smell”, a quiet locality in Mysuru is becoming famous or rather infamous or call it notorious for its “Smell” — a horrible meat waste stench. The smell is due to…
MCC to survey mass wet waste generation points
June 9, 2019Mysuru: With timely and appropriate disposal of all sorts of wet waste and garbage posing a daunting challenge to the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), the Civic Body will embark on conducting a survey of hotels, lodges, hostels, marriage halls, industries etc., on the generation of wet waste at those points. Mysuru, which a few years…
Mysuru bags Best Award for waste segregation
June 9, 2018Mysuru: Mysuru city has been conferred with the ‘Four Leaves Award’ at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) convention on Urban Solid Waste Management held in New Delhi on June 7. While Mysuru has performed well as the city with the best processes to remain clean, Bengaluru scores low in the assessment of the…
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