Adar Poonawalla Clean City Initiative

India is the growth engine of the world, the fastest growing economy in today’s times. To make the growth journey sustainable and amplify potential and opportunities, the need of the hour is to address the challenges that come with rapid growth. More than half of the population in progressive states now stay in urban areas. The rapid urbanization leads to generation of more waste including household waste, human waste, material waste like plastic and electronic waste. The increasing growth always outpaces our capacities to manage these wastes, so the city has to be ahead of the curve at all times and it is no easy task. The sustainable goals by the United Nations have given a definitive direction and highlight the prime importance of cleanliness and waste management for a sustainable environment and overall growth. In fact, Urban Waste Management will be one of the important pillars of a sustainable environment .   A livable city is one which has vibrant culture, growing econ...

We call our ‘Planet’ or ‘Earth’ as ‘ Mother Earth’ and for a reason. It is our home, it is because of which we are alive. Yet we have been so indifferent. We forgot to live in harmony with nature and kept on damaging it. Climate change, man-made changes to nature, deforestation accelerated the speed of destruction of the planet. The consequences of climate change has reached each and everybody on our planet.   The World Earth Day 2023 will be celebrated on 22 April. The theme every year underlines particular environmental concern. This year the theme is “ Invest in Our Planet ”. Garbage is one of the contributing factors to climate change. It also affects human health and overall aesthetics of the city. It is a major cause of land or soil pollution.  The pace of consumption of goods by human and the waste and garbage generated is so huge that many places on our earth are simply unable to manage the garbage properly resulting in compounding problems. Although the...