Topic: Waste management
Double layered bags & colour coded bins: Waste management guidelines for COVID-19 patients
The CPCB wrote to state pollution control boards to consider common bio-medical waste treatment and disposal facility and its staff as essential services.
Make graveyards safe for the living. They are reservoirs of antibiotic-resistance bacteria
Rapid urbanisation in many developing countries has meant that informal settlements have begun to sprout near cemeteries.
‘Recycling industry like a baby without parents’ — representatives want separate ministry
Members of Material Recycling Association of India say a comprehensive policy on scrap materials can help Modi govt achieve $5 trillion economy target.
Modi govt’s blanket ban on plastics at this moment of economic slowdown is a bad idea
The single-use plastic ban is a disguised admission by the government that it has failed to put in place adequate garbage disposal mechanisms.
For Delhi, the Ghazipur landfill is a problem that’s only going to get bigger
With no efficient waste management system & a dearth of land for new dumps, filth will continue to mount at Ghazipur landfill, as will disease and pollution.
This Indian school accepts plastic waste instead of fees
Akshar Foundation School in Assam requests that each child brings in at least 25 plastic items every week.
How to build future cities? The answer lies in the slums of India, Brazil & Indonesia
Informal housing is not always a problem to be solved, but can be treasure-trove of city solutions.
Fashion has a huge waste problem & recycling ain’t working
In the world of fashion, there are massive levels of waste and more greenhouse gas emissions than international shipping and flights combined.
Delhi park features replicas of 7 wonders of the world created out of waste
It took 110 tonne of waste from MCD yards and stores across the capital to recreate these monuments.
Nagpur to become the first Indian city to treat and reuse 90% of its sewage
Nagpur Municipal Corporation's sewage treatment plants are on the cusp of being able to recycle 480 million litres of the total 525 million litres per day of sewage the city generates.
Students in Kashmir attended regular classes for only two weeks in the last one year
The price Kashmir’s economy paid for 5 August: ₹40,000 cr and unemployment levels twice the national average.
India isn’t facing up to the true financial cost of Covid
Truth is currently as scarce as capital in India. The govt doesn’t have the appetite for large-scale socialisation of private losses, lest the opposition accuse PM Modi of cronyism.
Defence
India, China generals meet today as ‘PLA keeps up Pangong incursions, blocks army at Depsang’
The fresh round of dialogue comes as India and China have hit a stalemate in military talks with regard to disengagement at multiple flashpoints in Ladakh.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.