Author: Vasanthan Panchavarnam
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A Year of Solid Waste Management
A year has rolled by since the Waste Management Park became functional at Ottupattarai in Coonoor, with the District Collector Ms Innocent Divya inaugurating the facility. The unit has been functioning as a Mixed Stream Processing Facility ever since, and has so far dealt with 8,70,603 kgs of Municipal Solid Waste, thanks to the co-operation…
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Time for Nature
518 cubic meters of landfill space spared ; 2 million litres of water saved ; 1.65 lakh litres of petroleum conserved ; and 1,100 trees prevented from being axed This is no empty boast on the part of the Coonoor Municipal Corporation and Clean Coonoor. As on this World Environment Day, the theme of which…
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Waltz of the Flowers at the Waste Management Park
31 March marks the end of the floral season in these hills, a two month period when parks and gardens of this hill station present a virtual kaleidoscope of the vivid pinks, reds, blues, and yellows of flowerbeds, contrasting with the verdant green of lawns and shrubberies. The essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson is known to…
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Commendation from the Highest Level
Teamwork over personal ambition, is the reason for the accolade bestowed upon the Municipal Corporation and Clean Coonoor, for their joint efforts in the creation of the Waste Management Park at Ottupattarai on 02 Feb 2020. The words of appreciation came from none other than the Chairperson, State Monitoring Committee of the National Green Tribunal…
