Tag: Waste Management Facility
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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…
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Sensitisation for those who are a part of the natural world.
“The more you know, the less you need.” An exposure to waste management for the students of Eklavya Model Residential School, M’ Palada, which comes under of Ministry of Tribal Affairs and offers quality education to Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in remote areas. Keeping in tune with the Australian Proverb that, “The more you know,…
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Learning by hearing a range of perspectives
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. A consultative exercise between the District Administration, the Ooty Municipality and…
