Fire and Rescue Services personnel dousing the fire that broke out at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal on Friday held the Kerala government responsible for the massive fire at the Brahmapuram dump site of the Kochi Corporation on March 2 while […]
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Fire and Rescue Services officials working to quell the smouldering plastic waste at Brahmapuram waste treatment plant | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Kochi Corporation, which had won the Zero Waste city award in 2009, failed miserably in taking forward the decentralised waste management system after 2010, criticised Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Speaking at the State […]
Continue ReadingKerala Legislative Assembly Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition unleashed an impassioned attack against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government for “shielding politically influential contractors who heartlessly jeopardised the health of eight lakh Kochi residents by setting fire to the plastic garbage hill at Brahmapuram to cover up their abject failure to dispose of the […]
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Smoke from Brahmapuram fire is still suffocating parts of Ernakulam city | Photo Credit: R. K. Nithin From his 21st floor-apartment in Chittethukara not so far away from the Brahmapuram plant where tonnes of plastic garbage heaps continue to smoulder for the last one week, Dinesh Neelankandan, a script writer, could see a thick film […]
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Fire and Rescue Services personnel trying to douse the fire that broke out at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Plastic waste piled up at Kochi Corporation’s solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram has gone up in smoke without fail every year since 2019. In fact, at least […]
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