Category: Solid Waste Management
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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…
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Time to Reflect
As of tomorrow half a decade would have rolled by since Clean Coonoor and its volunteers, officials, and the general public, joined hands to take upon themselves the mammoth task of cleaning the middle stream of the Coonoor River. It would not be an overstatement to say that the whole venture would have been impossible,…
