Author: Vasanthan Panchavarnam
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Making Amends
There’s an old saying that we do not inherit the earth from ancestors but rather borrow it from our children. When considering the way that we are choking the good earth with the quantity of waste we generate daily, it appears that we are ruining it for them. To reverse this ill trend Clean Coonoor…
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Ending Plastic Pollution
A rally involving schoolchildren and other NGOs organised by the Wellington Cantonment Board as part of the 4 month observations of this year’s World Environment Day. The commandant of the MRC flagged off the rally, the theme of which was about the issue of Plastic Pollution.
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Facility Tour for Delegates from a Mountain Country
Delegates from across four municipalities in Nepal visited the Waste Management Facility at Coonoor to study our methods of dealing with municipal waste. The facility tour was the initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs and the District Administration. These municipalities situated in what is called as ‘Hilly Region,’ face far greater challenges than our…
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Encouraging the Embrace of Diversity
A Neighbourhood Cleanup was organised by the Residents of Brooklands Association of Coonoor (ROBAC) in which more than 30 residents participated in cleaning up the surroundings. They were joined by employees and volunteers of Clean Coonoor and the sanitation staff of the Municipality. Today’s cleanup yielded 1090 kg of waste chiefly dumped into wayside bushes…
