Tamil Nadu will spend over Rs 600 crore to revamp its waste management infrastructure completely, as the state does away with landfills and concentrates on composting
Nearly 700 kilos of biodegradable waste from Meenakshi temple and houses around the temple is converted into manure daily,used for growing organic vegetables
After Kerala, Bandicoot, a robot made by start-up Genrobotics, makes its debut in the temple town of Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, to put an end to...
Only two districts, Cuddalore and Villupuram, are yet to go ODF in Tamil Nadu, which has rural sanitation coverage of above 99 per cent up from...
The problem of dysfunctional toilets in Kanchipuram, which in turn pushes people towards unhygienic and filthy habit of defecating in the open, was a problem the...
Vegetable waste is not an item of waste anymore as Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women in T. Nagar, Chennai, uses it to produce...
Under an environment protection act of 1986, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to ban non-biodegradable plastic covers, plates, cups, water packets, straws and bags
The Kanchipuram district administration introduced sanitation cards to monitor if the beneficiaries are using the toilets regularly or not
Gandhi Market, the premier market in the city of Trichy has become a sore point for the city’s civic body as shopkeepers continue to dump vegetable...
To avoid a repeat of a drought like situation faced in 2003, an NGO installed 600 rain water harvesting systems to recharge groundwater tables and conserve...
Blooming Beacon, a student led group devoted towards social work is trying to raise ₹8,90,000 to provide sanitary napkins to around 3,500 women and girls
Though the local civic body has declared Chennai open defecation free, the city awaits a final nod from the Union government
