World's highest peak Mount Everest has lately acquired notoriety as the "world's highest garbage dump" because of the tonnes of waste left behind by climbers ...
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With an aim to enable the community to reduce waste, reuse and recycle, the Nagaland Integrated Waste Management Policy 2019 was enacted by the state government in February this year ...
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Triggered by combustible methane gas pockets, a garbage dump in South Goa's Sonsoddo area caught fire this week, resulting in major pollution in the nearby areas ...
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The 45-day-long 'Everest Cleaning Campaign' concluded on Monday, as the team was successfully able to collect over 10,000 kilograms of rubbish from the Mount Everest region ...
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With an aim to check littering and maintain cleanliness in the Kheerganga trek route, the forest department of Himachal Pradesh has decided to charge Rs. 50 from each trekker from this month ...
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The 45-day "Everest Cleaning Campaign", led by Solukhumbu district's Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality began on April 14 with the Nepali new year and aims to collect nearly 10,000 kilogram of garbage from Mount Everest ...
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On the occasion of World Earth Day, waste pickers from Safai Sena, is creating awareness about waste and waste handling at New Delhi Railway Station, platform number 16 ...
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27-year-old Soumya Annapurna Kalluri started a social enterprise Dwij in 2018 that essentially means, ‘a new lease of life’ in order to help reduce waste load from India's landfills ...
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A group of 12,000 waste pickers, Safai Sena, have released a list of demands ahead of elections, asking political parties to take into account the services of 2 million waste pickers ...
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Tourists who do not have a climbing permit will not be allowed at the Mount Everest base camp in Tibet to curb the garbage problem and to protect the environment at the site, decides the government of the Republic of China ...
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The report, "A new circular vision for electronics - Time for a global reboot", launched in Davos, suggests that technologies such as cloud computing and the internet of things support gradual "dematerialisation" of the electronics industry ...
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Contractors responsible for collection and disposal of garbage had given an "inflated number of vehicles", nearly 1000 vehicles existed only on paper ...
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