Tag: Waste Management Facility
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A Flowery Tale
The awards ceremony of this year’s floral carnival was quite marred by the premature burst of the Southwest monsoon, but the downpours, drizzles, Scotch mists, London fogs, and high winds, failed to dampen the spirit of the proceedings, and the sea of humanity which thronged the gardens stands testimony of that fact. Happy that our…
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Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development
A summer camp organised by the Madras Regimental Centre, Wellington for students of classes 6 to 10 is underway since the 19th of this month. A morning walk through Sim’s Park to appraise the children of the bio-diverse nature of this district followed by a visit to the waste management unit run by this organisation,…
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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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Facility Tour for Delegates from a Mountain Country
Delegates from across four municipalities in Nepal visited the Waste Management Facility at Coonoor to study our methods of dealing with municipal waste. The facility tour was the initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs and the District Administration. These municipalities situated in what is called as ‘Hilly Region,’ face far greater challenges than our…
