Tiruchy Corporation's recycling drive in tatters
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tiruchy Corporation's recycling drive in tatters

New Indian Express  

TIRUCHY: A woman's statue, holding buckets with segregated waste, in a vehicle announcing the importance of recycling is a sight that city residents would have hardly forgotten. Under the initiative, residents were encouraged to give various recyclable materials, including old clothes, to micro compost centres. Clothes collected through the initiative were meant to be used for making cloth bags and given to traders or vendors free of cost. TNIE first filed an RTI with the corporation enquiring about details of the quantity of clothes collected through the initiative and what was done with them. The public information officer replied, "During the campaign period from May 20, 2023, to May 31, 2023, the corporation collected about two tonnes of clothes.

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Time to sort out recycling of waste clothes
9 years, 2 months ago

Time to sort out recycling of waste clothes

China Daily  

CLOTHES AND SHOES collected from some residential communities in Shanghai have been poorly recycled according to media reports. Many so-called recycling bins are actually taken care of by garbage collectors, who resell the secondhand clothes to local flea markets or simply send them to dustbins and waste furnaces. Beijing Times on Thursday called for better management and favorable policies to …

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