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Chennai Buzz: Award for Chennai Corporation | Assistance for POCSO victims | Smart parking app on the cards

November 9, 2019 News Desk

Presenting our regular weekly round-up of important civic news from the city

Civic

Chennai Buzz: Rains bring relief from heat | One more desalination plant |Aavin’s green initiative…and more

July 1, 2019 News Desk

Rains make news in parched, sizzling Chennai… but has it been enough? Are there other plans to mitigate the water crisis in the city? That and more headlines from the city over the week gone by.

Civic

Chennai Corporation plans to decentralise waste management, but how?

May 11, 2019 Aruna Natarajan

In an interview with Citizen Matters, Corporation Commissioner G Prakash talks about the plan to decentralise the handling and management of 100% of wet waste generated in the city, and the efforts under way to implement the same.

Civic

Many battles to fight before Chennai wins war against plastic

February 12, 2019 N S Parthasarathy

The goal of ensuring a plastic-free city is a step in the right direction, but the issue of dealing with the already existing and potential plastic waste in the system needs much deeper attention and careful handling.

Environment

It’s time to change… period!

November 21, 2018 Sandhya Raju

To create awareness on sustainable menstruation, Goli Soda hosted a panel in Chennai that spoke about the impact of waste created by conventional sanitary napkins and affordable, eco-positive and healthier alternatives before women.

Environment

TNPCB to honour environment-conscious RWAs with green award

September 6, 2018 Aruna Natarajan

Solid waste management, sewage management and reuse, plastic waste reduction are some of the areas that the TNPCB has identified for selection of deserving RWAs. Check more details here if your community has been following green practices and apply by October 31st.

Economy

Kuppai Matters: How much plastic waste, which brand?

May 28, 2018 Aruna Natarajan

As a small group of volunteers walked though the snaking pathway that led through Urur Kuppam to the stretch of Elliot’s beach near the Broken Bridge, we spotted litter through the trek. There were styrofoam

Civic

The lives of Chennai’s unsung, invisible environmentalists

August 3, 2017 Elloise Neale

A visit to the Kodungaiyur waste yard by author and researcher Elloise Neale brings out the rude realities of the day-to-day life of those who are responsible for recycling 20% of the waste that enters the site.

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