Facility Tour for Delegates from a Mountain Town
Mar 06
Delegates from across four municipalities in Nepal visited the Waste Management Facility at Coonoor to study our methods of dealing with municipal waste. The facility tour was the initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs and the District Administration.
Encouraging the Embrace of Diversity
Feb 22
An occasion where more than 30+ individuals of the Residents of Brooklands Association of Coonoor banded together, and along with employees and volunteers of Clean Coonoor and the sanitation staff of the Coonoor Municipality, succeeded in getting rid of their neighbourhood 1090 kgs of dumped and littered waste.
Employee Welfare
Feb 21
The goal of employee welfare is to make employees feel valued and supported, which can lead to increased productivity and job satisfaction.
An initiative of Microland Foundation, a camp to help our employees apply for essential government documents like Aadhar, Smart Card, Community Certificate, Health Insurance, etc.
Minimisation of Waste Generation
Feb 15
Today marked the last of the four batches to participate in the facility tour of the waste management facility. The 4 day exercise was arranged by Astitva a NGO working among tribal communities in the Nilgiris in the areas of health, nutrition, and education through a multifaceted approach to sustainable community development.
The children were thaught about how waste generated in town was safely disposed, the importance of disposal, waste collection, and segregation at source.
Emphasis was laid on minimisation of waste and the role of the younger generation in ensuring that it became a reality.
Knowledge Sharing
Feb 06
Knowledge management doesn’t happen until somebody reuses something. Sharing the know-how gained by six years waste management at Coonoor with the municipal officials of Ooty, an initiative of the District Collector.
Speaking the same Digital Language
Jan 27
As Bill Gates predicted the Internet has indeed become the town square for the global village of today.
A google search enabled a group of officials and elected representatives from Attappady Block Panchayat of Kerala to learn about our activities on waste management. They made it a point to come over here for firsthand information and knowledge. It was a pleasant experience interacting with such interested and passionate individuals.
M’mera Mpoyamba
Jan 10
New beginnings and endless possibilities, the first school activity of the year. Imparting the importance of the 5 R’s of Waste Management, with a special emphasis on the first two.
A big thanks to Ms. Kirithiha Vijayakumar for having having taken the trouble to arrange this trip for her students
A Tale of Two Hill Stations
Jan 09
An unannounced late evening albeit significant visitor to the waste management facility, the Member Secretary of the Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board.
He was much thrilled with the activities and results and stated that he’ll be in contact to replicate our model in the Hill State which faces similar challenges as this hilly district.
An Year in Retrospect & Looking Ahead
Jan 01
The year 2024 had been quite an eventful one for the organisation, witnessing 10 years of caring for the environment, the first half decade as a citizen’s body and the next half as a registered non-profit. The year as well hallmarks 5 years of Municipal Waste Management as a Public Private Partnership.
In addition to the chief area of focus, 2024 also witnessed a resurgence of activities on other fronts – the restoration of the silted up Wellington Lake, the pre-monsoon cleanup of the Coonoor River, resumption of neighbourhood cleanups, and school activities being a few instances.
Our activities on the the waste management front have led to a CO2 equivalent Emission Savings of 1,541 tons by preventing about 4,758 tons of municipal waste from either being interred into landfills or from being openly dumped.
Although the achievements are impressive, given the ecological sensitiveness of this district and the focus of activity of this organisation being nonexclusive, non-rivalled and essential – complacency has no place in 2025.
The year ahead will focus on addressing operational complexities peculiar to this hilly terrain, attending to sustainability and replicability concerns, stepping up activities pertaining to advocacy, communication and social mobilisation, and in building sound administrative and political commitments.
