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ToWaSo, a start-up in Jharkhand has developed a toilet cleaning agent from citrus fruit waste, which is completely eco-friendly

Authorities at Kumbh Mela are doing their best to make this year’s Kumbh India’s cleanest festival – from a unique 'toilet cafeteria' that is spreading the word about Clean India mission to a 'Swachh Rath' doing the rounds of the grounds to educate pilgrims and tourists on ways to keep Kumbh clean, there is a lot of things at the mela that is drawing attention

After being assessed on various parameters for three days, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation received ODF plus status on January 5

Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Uma Bharti visited Prayagraj for the 2019 Kumbh Mela to review the sanitation arrangements made by the Uttar Pradesh government and interact with the 1,500 swachhagrahis working day and night to ensure cleanliness

#SwachhIndia | Supreme Court Judge, Justice Arun Mishra raised concerns over the high level of #AirPolltution in Delhi and said he has decided not to stay in the capital after his retirement and asked the Delhi Government to take up long term measures to curb pollution

From eliminating landfills, developing sustainable public toilets to mass beautification of cities, various Municipal Corporations displayed their sanitation models at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhinagar

All the stakeholders of Chandigarh have joined hands to fight air pollution majorly caused by vehicles, industries, garbage burning, and dust by formulating an action plan which will be monitored regularly by the Air Quality Monitoring Committee (AQMC) formed by Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC)

The Greenfield Rocks End Housing Society located at Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road composts around 300 kilos of wet waste daily and produces manure every 45 days

Artificial lungs installed in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow as part of an awareness campaign by Climate Agenda and Doctors For Clean Air, changed colour within 24 hours due to high levels of air pollution in the city while the same experiment in Delhi saw the lungs change colour in three days

Muzaffarpur has become the cleanest city of Bihar and the first city in North India to follow waste segregation at source, the waste management model of the city is being adapted by the other local bodies in the state

A 58-year-old innovator from Manipur has found a way of re-using the disposed of plastic water bottles to combat the problem of plastic pollution in the state while also generating income for the people of his village

Noted Singer Sonu Nigam urges people to fight plastic pollution by refusing, reducing, reusing and recycling plastic waste to become a truly clean and swachh nation

To gift a plastic-free state to the future generations, Puducherry government has decided to ban the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products including non-biodegradable carry bags in the union territory from March 1, said Chief Minister V Narayanasamy

Teenagers Jai and Preet Aswani from Chennai aim to make one lakh cloth bags from old bedsheets and pillow covers to replace plastic carry bags, post plastic ban in Tamil Nadu