A look at Tamil Nadu’s plastic ban: 2 years on
Do we take plastic pollution and its effects on the ecosystem and our health seriously?
For release on March 15, World Consumer Rights Day Chennai, March 2021
This World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD…
CAG, in partnership with Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), and supported by Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation has conducted a study on using the electricity bill as an enabling mechanism to improve information disclosure and…
This happened a few years ago. I had had a fever all day and had barely eaten. I had to go out for some reason even though I was feeling quite weak and ill. I was attempting to cross the road and was halfway across, when I saw a bike approaching me…
In August 2020, just after the lock down was lifted I was travelling on my bike at around 6’o clock in the morning. A water tanker lorry had just passed ahead of me, leaking water. Oblivious to the water present on the road I was travelling at 40…
I was waiting at the road intersection for the signal to go green. A couple of two wheeler riders were also waiting at the intersection. But unlike me, they were not waiting for the lights to turn green; they just wanted to find a break in…
Let us exercise our rights as consumers to move towards sustainable lifestyles. #noplasticpollution is do-able if we work together.
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Being old school can be a good thing! Maintain your possessions well and repair them instead of replacing them.
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Reduce, reuse, and when thats not possible, recycle your plastics! Check with your local scrap shop to know what kinds of plastic he will take.
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On February 17th 2019, at around 9 am,I was travelling to Vandalur for my college project. We were a group of friends, all on their own bikes. I had one friend riding pillion with me. One of my friends started overtaking all of us and this started a…
Discarded plastics leach toxins into the water we drink and earth that feeds us. Let's stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
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