Solid waste management

Today on #WorldWastePickersDay, we celebrate the over 15 million waste pickers globally, who handle our waste unflinchingly. They rummage through our #waste, salvaging tonnes of it that might otherwise have ended up in #landfills. And they even look through the vast wastelands of our landfills, recovering something small here and there. Let's celebrate them for they are the true unsung heroes.

More talk. No real action. We've always known this about #Corporates. But new analyses of 24 multinationals' #sustainability pledges (several of them have an Indian footprint) find their pledges to be ambiguous, even misleading, & lacking in credibility. More here: https://bit.ly/3lQFuFQ

When will they know that we know?

#EndPlasticPollution #ZeroWaste #GoForZeroWaste #Reduce #Reuse #Recycle #SaveEarth

In light of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives’ (GAIA) Zero Waste Month observed in January, Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG) in collaboration with Justice Basheer Ahmed Syed (JBAS) College, Chennai conducted an event  ‘Zero Waste Beginnings’. The event was aimed at college students, to help build an awareness of zero waste lifestyles and understand the overwhelming menace of solid waste, especially plastic waste.

#Manjappai is the way forward! Carry one with you - they're small, light and can carry a lot of weight. Your perfect companion for shopping. Who needs plastic bags anymore?

#மஞ்சப்பை தான் முன்னேற்றத்திற்கான வழி! எப்பொழுதும் உங்களுடன் எடுத்துச் செல்லுங்கள் - அவை சிறியவை, இலகுவானவை மற்றும் அதிக எடையை சுமக்கக்கூடியவை . ஷாப்பிங் செல்வதற்கு உங்களது சரியான துணையாய் இருக்கும். இனி பிளாஸ்டிக் பைகள் யாருக்கு தேவை?

#India has a target of raising the non-fossil fuel based energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030. Policies & financial institutions that support #Waste To #Energy #incinerators need to remember that #plastic is #fossilfuels. Burning (plastic) waste as a source of energy not only slows down our #sustainableenergy aspirations, it actively worsens our emission target contributions. And of course, the plastic production will continue unabated, as now, it can all just be burnt. We lose on all fronts.