Tag: Garbage

The rural areas of the Federal Capital do not have a proper mechanism in place to dispose off the garbage from the area. Despite...

Scattered heaps of garbage and a rickshaw stop on Saidpur Road close to Pindora graveyard has been causing trouble to the residents of the...

Stinky garbage heaps scattered in front of Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium are perturbing the visitors of Nawaz Sharif Park. The scattered garbage poses serious health...

The sewerage systems in the twin cities of Islamabad Rawalpindi are destroying the streets and roads while the residents have demanded of the authorities...

Seeing scattered shopping bags, garbage and the worst possible graffiti in the city, no one could believe that we are living in the federal...

Nine children, including two brothers, were injured in an explosion at a garbage mound on Saturday. According to Qabula police, some explosive material was...

KMC Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed said Istanbul model will be used for setting up garbage transfer stations of 2 thousand tons capacity in five...

Piles of garbage are mounting in twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi are providing favourable conditions for the growth of dengue mosquito and increasing...

As people across the globe celebrated love with their beloved, five unlucky souls yet to even arrive in the world were found dumped in...

The federal capital, shifted from Karachi to Islamabad in 1960, is still struggling to have an effective and modern system of waste management on...

The condition of Lahore’s heritage sites seem to be growing from bad to worse. In a recent discovery Pakistan Today learnt that the baara-dari...

Just beside a huge pile of plastic bags, rotten food, domestic garbage, syringes, hospital waste and animal offal, some men with their faces covered...

The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has removed 11,093 tonnes of garbage during the past four days of the third phase of the cleanliness...

Nisar Ahmed, 17, gets up early in the morning and makes rounds in the streets of the federal capital to search and collect waste...

Open garbage dumps near the Faizabad bus stand have become a nuisance for the residents of the area as well as commuters, as the...

KARACHI - City administrator Fazlur Rehman directed the Jamshed Town Administration on Friday to prevent dumping of garbage at the edges of Manzoor Colony nullah otherwise the city government's step to clean and de-silt the drain would go to waste.
"All garbage should immediately be shifted to land fill sites," he said while inspecting the cleaning work of the nullah.
The administrator was briefed by the cleaning staff that much of the nullah has been cleaned and it is

RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian garbage worker may be sharing the Oscar stage with the likes of Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp next month after his starring role in a documentary on the transformative power of art. In Oscar-nominated 'Waste Land,' Sebastiao Carlos dos Santos and a group of other workers at a huge, ugly Rio de Janeiro landfill become muses for artist Vik Muniz, who shines a light on an activity society would rather ignore.
Using blown-up photographs of themselves and the