Tag: Waste

Another historical basement discovered at Lahore Fort

--Experts suspect basement located behind Jahangir's Quadrangle dates back to Mughal Era --Almost 85,487 cubic feet of waste, debris removed from previously 'neglected' area of...

Swat River to be cleaned from waste, garbage

SWAT: Swat Additional Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Fawad Khan Sunday chaired a meeting to discuss measures needed to clear Swat River from pollution. The meeting among...

City’s waste continues to be dumped without segregation

LAHORE: With the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) failing to establish a recovery centre to segregate and recycle waste, the development of which was proposed two...

LWMC’s negligence creates another ‘mound of waste’

Illegal dumping of waste at Scientific Landfill Site contaminants groundwater, environment LAHORE: Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) has badly failed to dump the city’s waste...

Recycling of hospital waste into different products continues unchecked in Lahore

LAHORE: The business of recycling of hazardous hospital waste is in full swing in the provincial capital under the nose of authorities, Pakistan Today...

China´s waste import ban upsets global recycling industry

BEIJING: For years China was the world's top destination for recyclable trash, but a ban on certain imports has left nations scrambling to find...

Effluent water continues to discharge into canal in Larkana

LARKANA: Despite Supreme Court orders, untreated sewage water continues to be discharged directly into the city’s “clean” water sources, as local authorities have failed to...

LWMC imposed 11,134 fines in a year

LAHORE: The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) has imposed more than 11,134 fines in Lahore during 2016-17 against all those people who were involved in...

Waste fears as Afghan soldiers cash in on spent ammo

Zahir Jan, a scrap metal dealer in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, pays about 175 Afghani ($2.55) per kilo of spent cartridge casings...

Rs 12.5billion go to ‘waste’

Despite allocation of Rs 12.5b to LWMC, heaps of garbage are a common feature in city markets The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has approved...

Parliament not entitled to legislate against constitution: SC

ISLAMABAD Justice Jawwad S Khawaja on Thursday said the constitution is supreme and parliament has no authority to legislate against it. He gave these remarks...

Solid waste in Ravi leads to large scale birds’ migration

Environment degradation has led to migration of scavenger birds from river Ravi, Pakistan Today has learnt. These birds, which were seen in large...

Iran expresses interest in waste management, energy sector in city

Iran has expressed deep interest in cooperation with KMC for solid waste management, dairy products, slaughtering and energy sector in Karachi. During a meeting...

Death by toxic plastic!

The City District Government Lahore officials sealed four factories that were manufacturing kitchen items from toxic hospital waste, placing a question mark on the...

Industrial waste causing pollution in Sindh

Environment Protection Agency Director General Rafiuddin Ghouri termed the overall environmental position in Sindh as unsatisfactory and said that industrial effluent was the main...

You live in one of the world’s dirtiest cities

Commissioner of Karachi Roshan Ali Shaikh on Monday said that Karachi was among the eight most polluted cities in Asia. He said this on his...

CDA urged to use waste for energy generation

Funds can be generated by using solid waste for electricity and gas generation to overcome energy crisis and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) may...