Tag: Plastic pollution
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Time for Nature
518 cubic meters of landfill space spared ; 2 million litres of water saved ; 1.65 lakh litres of petroleum conserved ; and 1,100 trees prevented from being axed This is no empty boast on the part of the Coonoor Municipal Corporation and Clean Coonoor. As on this World Environment Day, the theme of which…
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Better Late than Never
One of the lesser known crusades in the war against Plastic Pollution, ‘Plastics 2020 Challenge,’ is a push to reduce the quantity of plastic materials sent to landfills. The overall aim of this campaign which was launched in Westminster in 2009, is to double the rate of plastic recycling by the year 2020. For its…
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A Month of Municipal Solid Waste Management
A month has passed since the Waste Management Park at Ottupattarai became functional. Clean Coonoor is pleased to state that around 24,173 kgs of solid waste has been handled by its volunteers since its inception. Although segregation at source is in force, mixed waste to the tune of about 40% still continues to come in,…
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Waste Management Park Inaugural
Nearly five months have passed ever since Clean Coonoor set about to revamp the Municipal Garbage Dump. Thanks to the eleemosynary gestures of many generous individuals and the active cooperation of the Coonoor Municipal Corporation, the goal has now been achieved. A Waste Management Park is all set to be inaugurated by the District Collector…
