Category: Solid Waste Management
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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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Unforeseen Contingency
At times ‘Presumption’ overshoots and ‘Diffidence’ falls short is a well known quote by Golda Meir. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live – but in our presumption we assumed…
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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.
