Category: Solid Waste Management
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Neighbourhood Cleanup
Clean Coonoor is in the process of trying out neighbourhood cleanups in its bid to keep the township and its environs litter free. A neighbourhood cleanup is just what it sounds like: residents band together to clean up all or part of their neighbourhood. The neighbourhood chosen this time was a rather small one with…
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Once Upon A Time All Food Was Organic
This is no fairy tale but a fact. A fact that is either ignored conveniently as impracticable in today’s world with its ever growing population, or sneered at as an emerging fad. But we have now come a full circle. Driven by concerns about sustainability and toxin exposure, organic food is presently a growing market…
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Participative Learning
Thanks to management of Brindavan Public School – Coonoor, the first batch of students had an exposure to what happens to their waste – the importance of minimisation of waste in the first place by following the 4 ‘Rs’ – Reduce – Refuse – Reuse – Repurpose, and lastly where waste generation is unavoidable, the…
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Testimonial from a Garden Enthusiast
As Voltaire is known to have remarked, “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Thanks for the words of encouragement Mrs. Adenwala. For the last 2 years I have been using the compost made at the Waste management Facility, to have a beautiful healthy flowering…
