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HT Chandigarh Readers’ Take: Sweeping changes required for waste management
UPDATED ON OCT 30, 2020 11:28 PM IST
The war against waste can only be won if segregation at household level is implemented with strict penalties, collectors are allowed to profit from recycling garbage and the residents cooperate with RWAs to ensure minimum waste generation in their sectors
College student from Madurai creates handicraft items from waste amid Covid-19
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) | By Asian News International | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
UPDATED ON OCT 10, 2020 05:27 PM IST
A college student from Madurai has used the Covid-19 induced lockdown to pursue her childhood interest in making handicrafts.
Global Law Conference at Chandigarh University: Need cheaper scientific measures to deal with solid waste, say experts
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON NOV 18, 2019 12:44 AM IST
Say monetising power produced by solid waste can generate wealth
CPCB asks agencies to identify vacant plots, take action
New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUL 25, 2019 04:02 AM IST
A meeting regarding the issue was held by the Board on Monday. It pulled up land-owning agencies for their ‘inadequate response’ in addressing public complaints.
Eateries wage war against plastic, say yes to green cutlery
Hindustan Times, Delhi | By Prerna Gauba Sibbal
UPDATED ON JUN 12, 2019 09:42 AM IST
Many restaurants and hotels in the city are replacing plastic straws with more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives.
NIFT students create plastic monster to discourage use
New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAY 23, 2019 06:13 AM IST
Two angel wings — in the shape of a butterfly — now welcome visitors at the Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) Deer Park in south Delhi’s Hauz Khas.
Noida: 22 more sectors added to door-to-door waste pickup route
Noida | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON MAR 04, 2019 02:55 AM IST
According to authority officials, at least 167 vehicles will be used to collect garbage from residential colonies, high rises, markets, hotels, malls and other places.
Delhi’s ‘7 wonders of world park’ has replicas of Taj, Great pyramid of Giza, know more
New Delhi | By Ashish Mishra
UPDATED ON FEB 22, 2019 04:38 PM IST
Five artisans led the effort to convert scrap into detailed models of the world’s wonders; the Taj Mahal was the most difficult, they said
Bhubaneswar’s ‘Waste to Art’ museum inaugurated by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
Asian News International | By Asian News International
UPDATED ON NOV 21, 2018 11:32 AM IST
It is the first open-air museum of waste-to-art where noted artists from 14 countries have come to participate and made different sculpture from waste materials and scraps.
Lucknow: Housekeeper creates largest ‘selfie stand’, record
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By Rajeev Mullick
PUBLISHED ON MAY 26, 2018 02:04 PM IST
A housekeeper at a prominent city hotel created the largest ‘selfie stand’ with waste material, thus making a grand entry into the record books.
Rickshaw puller fills potholed roads in free time
Hindustan Times, Bharatpur | By Suresh Foujdar
UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2018 10:13 PM IST
Nand Kishor Saini, a rickshaw puller of Kutti Mohalla in Kaman town, has been covering potholed roads in the town for last three years whenever he finds time from his work
Six workers die after entering sewage-filled well in Bengal
Indo Asian News Service, Kolkata | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAR 30, 2018 07:24 PM IST
A well inside a paper factory was filled with industry waste; presence of poisonous gas and lack of oxygen suspected for deaths.