Category: Solid Waste Management
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Supporting Inclusive, Resilient, and Sustainable Growth
A team from the Asian Development Bank led by Akshita Sharma, Climate Adaptation Officer happened to visit our Waste Management Facility today. They appeared to be satisfied with the way our units are functioning, and hoped that the same could be replicated in Ooty and other Hill Towns. Clean Coonoor will be quite happy in…
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Knowledge Sharing
Managing the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted, and applied – for knowledge cannot be managed per se. Second batch of representatives from municipalities across Nepal on a facility tour of the waste management facility. Hope the model will be replicated there with tweaks to suit…
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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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World Environment Day 2025
To mark this years World Environment Day, Coonoor Municipality and Clean Coonoor sent out the 137th truckload of zero value plastic to be co-processed as fuel in the cement kilns of Ariyalur. This small event was flagged off by the Municipal Commissioner Mr. Ilamparathi in the presence of trustees and members of the organisation and…
