Medical Waste Can Impact The Environment Severely The mismanagement of medical waste has dire consequences on the environment. Though 85% of medical waste can be categorised as non-hazardous according to WHO, the remaining 15% could be toxic, radioactive or infectious that pose a huge threat to the environment and public health. Being hazardous and sensitive …
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Conscious Living Campaign HCL Foundation team launched the ‘Conscious living’ campaign with over 60 scouts and guides students. The campaign took place as a part of the Bharat scouts and guides annual camp in Ooty. During this campaign, students understood the basics of plastics and learnt to track their daily plastic usage at home and …
Engaging Citizens in Effective Waste Management HCL Foundation in collaboration with GautamBuddh Nagar Forest Division organised a ‘Waste Management and Environment Conservation event’ on October 2nd. To educate and engage citizens in effective waste management, a 3-kilometer plogging drive in Okhla Bird Sanctuary was conducted. It was followed by a tree plantation.With 100 enthusiastic participants …
Pollution – In and Out The ever-increasing outdoor air pollution levels have played havoc with many Indian cities. The same is true indoors as well. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2014, over 145 million Indian households still rely on basic solid fuels such as wood, animal dung, charcoal, municipal and industrial …
Say No to E-Waste HCL Foundation’s Clean Noida project is on a mission to strengthen Noida’s municipal solid waste management. To date 18 E-waste awareness events have been conducted across 21 sectors of Noida, where people pledged to keep their surroundings clean and recycle their e-waste the right way. Additionally, 10 E-bins have successfully been …
Plastic Heist in Noida Binge-watching is one of the most popular things we do now, and I am sure you must’ve binged-watched Money Heist on Netflix. Taking the theme from the web series and highlighting the recent single-use plastic ban by the government, HCL Foundation’s Clean Noida project initiated a plastic heist in Noida on …
Why say no to single-use plastic? If you are of the view that single-use plastics are only bad for the environment, then you are wrong. Yes, it has detrimental effects on the environment but its consequences on our health, and economy cannot be underestimated. As per experts, the ingestion of single-use plastics can damage reproductive …
Plastic: More deadly than you know Nothing in the world is as embedded in modern human life as plastic. You eat from plastic cutlery, you carry around things in plastic bags, you clean your ear with plastic buds, you write from a pen made up of plastic, etc etc. and the list could be endless. …
Aroha’s Environment Programme for School children Reducing waste from our homes and segregating it have been critical issues that deserve more attention. With this concern, Aroha Multipurpose Society in partnership with HCL Foundation is working with school children for environmental awareness and sensitization. Aroha’s environmental education has three parts, nutrition garden, nursery development and compost …
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Using Organic Farming to Keep Ganga Clean The Uttar Pradesh government is promoting organic farming and afforestation along the banks of the river Ganga under the ambitious Arth Ganga project launched by the Prime Minister of India. The river passes through 27 districts of the state and the plan is to promote organic farming and …
