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Delhi8 years agoDraft Fresh Guidelines For Streamlining Waste Collection In Dwarka: High Court Tells South Delhi Municipal Corporation
The High Court has directed the South Delhi Municipal Corporation to put its draft guidelines of waste management on the website and invite feedback from the...
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News8 years ago
World's Plastic Waste Could Bury New York's Manhattan 2 Miles Deep, Says Study
In 2015, the world created 448 million tonnes of plastic that is more than twice as much as made in 1998
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Features8 years ago
#PlasticFreePowai: 6 Teens Are Saving Mumbai’s Suburb From Plastic Menace, Here’s How
Six students studying in class 12 are on a mission to make Powai plastic free by replacing plastic bags with paper bags
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News8 years ago
Delhi Civic Bodies Given Two Weeks To Submit Draft By-laws For Solid Waste Management Rules
All the three municipal corporations of Delhi have a poor record of waste segregation and management, and face an uphill task in solving the problems
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Delhi8 years ago
Delhi Records 7 Deaths In Past One Month Due To Sewer Cleaning Activity, Is Manual Scavenging Privately Thriving In India?
Four men had died while cleaning a tank containing poisonous sewage in south Delhi's Ghitorni in July 15 while three died while cleaning a sewer line...
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Odisha8 years ago
A Workshop In Bhubaneswar To Spread The Idea of Waste Management Among Children
Bhubaneswar is a potential smart city, but is yet to manage its waste properly, which earned it the 94th rank in Swachh Survekshan 2017
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Maharashtra8 years ago
From Composting Garden Waste To Treating 200 Tonnes Of Waste Daily, Nagpur’s Techniques Show Its All Round Efforts In Improving Waste Management
Nagpur generates a huge 1,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste daily, prompting its civic body to take some small and large scale measures to address the...
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Bihar8 years ago
With Effective Segregation And Composting, Muzaffarpur Aims To Boost Bihar's Performance On The Swachhta Map
Though it ranked 304 out of 434 cities in Swachh Survekshan 2017, Muzaffarpur was the best ranked city from Bihar and is hopeful of improving its...
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News8 years ago
Government Launches Swachh Survekshan 2018, Focus To Be On Waste Management And Implementation
The Swachh Survekshan 2018 will commence from January 4 evaluating the state of sanitation and cleanliness in 4,041 Indian cities
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Maharashtra8 years ago
Attention Mumbaikars! Convert Wet Waste Into Manure Or The BMC Won’t Pick Up Your Garbage
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sent a notice to all housing complexes in Mumbai stating that the housing and commercial societies must not only segregate waste...
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News8 years ago
Inspired by Chhattisgarh’s Ambikarpur, Meerut Steps Up Its Waste Management Initiatives, Will Hire More Than 2,000 Sanitation Workers
Meerut’s poor rank of 336 in Swachh Survekshan 2017 has prompted the city’s civic body to adopt a model waste management system, inspired by Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur
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Sikkim8 years ago
This Sikkim School’s Waste Management Initiatives Have Influenced Teachers, Students And Parents Alike To Practice Segregation and Recycling
Sikkim has been an ideal example of a clean state as it successfully eradicated open defecation and banned plastic before these issues were taken up at...
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Independence Day8 years ago
No Dumping: Udupi District Aims To Get Rid Of Its Landfill Through Zero Waste Policy
From recycling dry waste to composting wet waste, the district of Udupi will aims to make the region garbage free thereby sending zero wastes to the...
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News8 years ago
Inspired By The Versova Cleanup Model, Centre To Launch A Similar Programme For 13 Other Beaches Across The Country
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has roped in Afroz Shah for the beach cleanup programme across India due to the lawyer’s successful cleaning up of...
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Food Waste8 years ago
Green Fridge: A Class 12 Student Develops A Cost Effective Fridge That Runs Without Electricity To Put An End To Food Wastage
A young innovator from New Delhi has made a magic-fridge that does not requires electricity to run and is cost effective. All this is done with...
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