Category: Sensitisations
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E-Waste Collection Drive
Informal e-waste recycling activities may have several adverse health effects. Children and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable. The ILO and WHO estimate that millions of women and child labourers working in the informal recycling sector globally may be at risk of hazardous e-waste exposures. To ensure responsible disposal students of the Interact Club of the…
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Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development
A summer camp organised by the Madras Regimental Centre, Wellington for students of classes 6 to 10 is underway since the 19th of this month. A morning walk through Sim’s Park to appraise the children of the bio-diverse nature of this district followed by a visit to the waste management unit run by this organisation,…
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Earth Day 2025
Earth Day was first proposed a day to honour the Earth and the concept of peace and later as an environmental teach-in for the United States. By the 1990s Earth Day had mobilised around 200 million people in 141 countries and had lifted the status of environmental issues onto the world stage. This years theme…
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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…
