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TopicWaste management

Topic: Waste management

SubscriberWrites: My experience with garbage mismanagement in India and around the world

If the present centralised system continues then by 2050 per capita plastic consumption will increase to 17.2 Kg and the area under landfill will need to be around seven times greater.

Gurugram can’t get its trash together. Rich people’s waste caught in mafia-like drama

Gurugram’s garbage empire has been hijacked by private players and mafias who are turning the city of C-suits and multinationals into one big dump yard.

Over a year since 12-day Brahmapuram landfill fire, Kochi completes treatment of 40% legacy waste

Kochi Municipal Corporation says around 2.93 lakh MT of waste had been treated as of 15 June, emptying 11 acres. Apart from this, treatment of organic waste has also begun at Brahmapuram.

MDoNER conducts Swachhata Pakhwada celebrations

The cleaning drive was conducted from 16th May to 31st May 2024.

Zero Waste Day: UN calls for global action to end waste ahead of 30 March

This year, the theme for the International Day of Zero Waste 2024 is "zero waste for a healthy planet."

Machines are digging, dragging, tearing into Delhi garbage mountains. Time’s running out

Delhi's three landfills at Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa have deadlines until next year to clear the mounds. But even as AAP-BJP trade blame, new trucks full of garbage keep arriving at the sites.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.