With an aim to find innovative solutions to the problem of plastic waste in the country, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched a two-month long ‘plastic hackathon’ targeting students and households to come up with alternatives for plastic and to improve plastic waste management ...
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According to experts, the movement against plastic has taken a battering in the pandemic with dependency on single-use plastic surging and households contributing to the tonnes of biomedical waste being generated ...
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According to the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, indicators under Swachh Survekshan 2021 focus on parameters pertaining to wastewater treatment and reuse along with faecal sludge management ...
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Indore has been ranked cleanest city for four consecutive years and is all set to top the list again in Swachh Survekshan 2021, said Asad Warsi, Centre's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan's adviser for Indore Municipal Corporation ...
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By forming new outfits out of scrap, we are not only curbing the textile waste generated by factories, but we are also trying to meet the needs of those less fortunate, said Ms. Vandana Jain, Founder, Katran Foundation ...
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Actor-turned-producer Anushka Sharma said that protecting the environment is the need of the hour and the film industry can contribute immensely towards the cause and also raise awareness on the same ...
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Developed by researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, the new road-making material is a mix of shredded single-use face masks and processed building rubble designed to meet civil engineering safety standards ...
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Announcing Budget 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that starting this year, the government intends to focus on complete faecal sludge management and wastewater treatment as a part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench headed by its chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that the standards of handling of Bio-medical waste need to duly comply ...
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According to CPCB, daily bio-medical waste generation in India has gone up by 25 per cent in 2020 due to COVID-19 ...
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In the last six months, between June to November, India produced 28,468.85 tonnes of COVID-19 related bio-medical waste, as per Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ...
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At the India Sanitation Coalition, experts discuss Swachh Bharat 2.0 and what should it really focus on in order to meet total sanitation goals for India ...
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