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CSE’s Weekly News Bulletin

July 21, 2020

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BULLETIN HIGHLIGHTS
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  • Editorial by Sunita Narain
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editorial
The Clean Air Concern
Sunita Narain
Editor, Down To Earth
Twiiter @sunitanar Twitter: @sunitanar
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Plastic recycling: What it means
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The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is all-subsuming. The pandemic makes it difficult to think or act on all the issues that made up our world yesterday and will stay in our world of tomorrow.

One such issue is plastic — the most ubiquitous substance that takes up so much of our lives and fills up our land and oceans, polluting it and adding to our health-stress. The current health emergency has normalised the use of plastic as more and more of it gets used as protection against the virus.

This plastic protection gear — from the gloves, to the masks to the body suits — so critical in this ‘war’ against COVID-19, will also contribute to the mountains of trash in our cities – if it is not incinerated in properly controlled and managed medical waste disposal facilities.

The politics of plastic is in the rather benign word ‘recycling’. Global industry has successfully argued that we can continue to use this highly durable substance because once we throw it, it will be recycled. Never mind that nobody knows what this means... Continue Reading
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Announcements - Trainings & Events
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Webinar
Replacement of small boilers with common steam boilers in Industrial Areas, July 27, 2020
Training
Webinar
MYSTERIOUS DISEASES: The failure of disease surveillance in India, Jul 27, 2020
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Online Training
Source Segregation - How to Do It? July 27-28, 2020
Training
Online training
Laboratory analysis of the performance evaluation of faecal sludge treatment plants (FSTPs), July 27-29, 2020
Training
Online training
Preparation of Shit Flow Diagram (SFD), July 27-29, 2020
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Online Global Training Programme
Faecal Sludge Management in Rural Areas, 29 July-12 August 2020
Training
Online Training
Sustainable Plastic Waste Management, August 07 – August 21, 2020
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Online Course
Environment Education, August 17-September 14, 2020
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Online Training
The SaniPath Tool: Assessing Exposure to Faecal Contamination in Urban Settings, August 17-28, 2020
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Online Training
Understanding Environmental Laws for Better Environmental Management, August 24-30, 2020
Please visit www.cseindia.org for more training programmes and announcements.
From Down to Earth
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How to stall COVID’s march in rural India
As cases of COVID-19 emerge in India’s rural areas, the time is ripe in strengthening implementation of National Rural Health Mission and decentralised governance
Drought, literature and the lessons
It is imminently important for us to spend considerable time researching the water woes plaguing India and the indigenous solutions, existing in the wealth of literary sources that we possess
The Green Revolution and a dark Punjab
Punjab has paid a price for food security. The use of pesticides and fertilisers has resulted in a number of health issues for the state’s population
Is intensive livestock production responsible for emerging infectious diseases
It is high time we recognise the connection between people, animals, plants and their shared environment
Video:What is Panama disease? Are bananas at risk?
The disease and conditions regarding its spread show that depending on monoculture crops is not sustainable for our food and nutritional security
Winged wonders: We should not resent bats, because we need them
The pandemic has magnified fear of bats, but their conservation is crucial to prevent such events from arising again
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