The East Municipal Corporation had decided to enlist the help of an NGO for its door-to-door garbage collection project. This was approved in the Standing Committee meeting on Thursday. The corporation will tie up with Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group for its cleanliness drive. The corporation is taking up …
The East Municipal Corporation had decided to enlist the help of an NGO for its door-to-door garbage collection project. This was approved in the Standing Committee meeting on Thursday. The corporation will tie up with Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group for its cleanliness drive. The corporation is taking up …
East Delhi Municipal Corporation has decided to start a pilot project of door-todoor garbage collection. CHINTAN Environment Research and Action Group, a Delhibased NGO, will be roped in for the project. It will initially be given three wards. “The NGO has to set up a material recovery facility. If its …
How To Dispose Of Wet Waste, Store Food Safely, Pack Food At Takeaways? New Delhi: They might be a nuisance for the environment but plastic bags have undoubtedly been of great service. One would think they are precious and rare the way some are stored with care, pressed under mattresses, …
New Delhi: After a false start three years ago, Delhi may finally be on the road to being free of plastic bags. The Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved imposition of a blanket ban on use, storage, sale and manufacture of plastic bags in the city. The new ban, more comprehensive …
New Delhi: New electronic waste management and handling rules were implemented acrossthecountry on May 1 this year. The new laws make it mandatory for producers of electronic goods to take back e-waste under the extended producers responsibility. However, Delhi, as one of the biggest producers of e-waste in the country …
New Delhi: About five times a year, the world breaks into celebrations over planet earth. Irrespective of what is done in the remaining 360 days, each time world water day, earth day, environment day or the earth hour are observed, people are at their best ‘green’ behaviour, at least some …
Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red. The party’s latest posters asking for power to be generated from waste has drawn the ire of NGO Chintan, which says BJP’s agenda is anti-public. “The party has not yet understood the basic scientific concept of …
Every year, Delhi produces a colossal amount of hazardous waste. With no treatment system in place and a govt in denial, mishaps like the one in Mayapuri may become the order of the day Neha Lalchandani | TNN The government
In garbage dumps on the eastern outskirts of Delhi, Ravleen Kaur unearths an extortion racket that runs on a lapsed contract This is not what I had in mind when I signed up for journalism. I had dreams of becoming a war correspondent and cover conflicts in, say, Afghanistan. But …
NEW DELHI: The government's determination to ban the plastic bag in the capital can fetch results only when people resolve to shun the bag and help implement the ban. That can come about only with awareness. However, the ban can be seriously undermined by the hundreds of illegal manufacturing units …
Chintan works for environmental justice in partnership with people and groups from diverse sections of society. Focus is on ensuring equitable and sustainable production and consumption of materials, and improved disposal of waste. An important part of this is ensuring green jobs, security and dignity for the urban poor, many …
