Category: Solid Waste Management
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Debris Disposal
Two weeks have passed since the upper stream of the Coonoor River was subjected to cleaning up and de-silting operations. Some 3200 metric tonnes of debris, from a stretch measuring a mere 300 metres, have been removed. Also recovered from inside the stream were some material belonging to the railways worth a few lakhs, which…
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Shramdaan
The word ‘Shramdaan’ means a voluntary contribution involving physical effort. It is a way of helping the community and contributing to help and change the environment around for the better. Such an exercise focussing on the removal of plastic waste strewn along a stretch of railway line between Coonoor Station and Kateri, was undertaken today.…
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Plastic Baler
Clean Coonoor is happy to announce that the much awaited plastic baler has arrived at the municipal dump yard. This machine which can compress 200kg of plastic waste into a 1 x 1 x .5 metre block, will be useful in management of plastic waste.
