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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicGarbage

Topic: Garbage

How the ‘world’s highest dumpster’ was cleaned and 10 tonnes of trash repurposed

Charlotte Edmond -
Products made out of this trash, like drinking glasses and light-fittings, are being used in hotels, restaurants and homes in Kathmandu.

Converting waste to energy is great, but also disastrous if done as here in Delhi

Simrin Sirur -
Without proper waste segregation, we are staring at lung disease, reduced fertility and cancer.

The world’s 2-billion-tonne garbage problem just got more alarming

Ann Koh -
Asian countries are rejecting tainted garbage from countries that export them. Those ships could now head to Africa, it is feared.

3,000 kg garbage collected from Mt Everest in two weeks

PTI -
The 45-day Everest Cleaning Campaign began on April 14 and will conclude on May 29.

Delhi filed 2,438 pollution complaints in a week, most about construction dust & garbage

Priyamvada Grover -
Pollution watchdog CPCB launched multiple complaint portals ahead of Diwali, including an app.

Despite Supreme Court’s call for immediate action, Delhi’s garbage dumps remain a mess

Soniya Agrawal -
The stalemate over local governance continues even as waste dumping situation at the three major Delhi landfills worsens. New Delhi: Weeks after the Supreme Court slammed Delhi...

The Japanese model of garbage disposal holds valuable lessons for India

Swapna Merlin -
Japan's capital Tokyo generated 4.9 million tonnes in 1989. It was down to 2.7 million tonnes in 2014.
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Opinion

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

Meenakashi Lekhi -
By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Rank turners take away the fairness of Test cricket, make ordinary spinners extraordinary

Royal Enfield bikes are the new rage in Bangladesh. What happens to ‘boycott India’ now

Economy

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

ThePrint Team -
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Defence

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

Snehesh Alex Philip -
While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

National Interest

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

Shekhar Gupta -
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.

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