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Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Science and Environment had released a report November 22 in the run-up to the Uruguay meeting

THE RETURN OF PUNE’S PLASTIC PEAK BySupriya DedgaonkarSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: Jul 10, 2021, 06:28 IST . Amount of plastic in city’s trash is as bad today as it was in 2016-17, before improvements were mandated, says a new report by SWaCH. And, 75% of it is from food delivery parcels alone The COVID-19 pandemic has confined most of us to the four walls of our homes, resulting in a substantial increase in the ordering of food from outside. However, along with this new habit we’ve inculcated, it emerges that we have also regressed into a bad phase. Today, the city has moved back to ...

SWaCH waste pickers protest with tilgul SWaCH waste pickers protest with tilgul ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 06:00 IST Upset with PMC’s standing committee pulling the plug on the co-operative’s five-year contract, its members decide to directly confront their detractors In an act of ‘ SWaCH Cooperative, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, have decided to distribute tilgul to corporators of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), many of whom have challenged the monopoly the NGO enjoys in the city’s garbage collection and sought to break this by tendering f...