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2021-09-15 17:57
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Let’s clean up the world: “We are the first one to be hurt”
TEHRAN – Waste production is an integral part of urban life, which is turning into a huge problem that will first and most hurt those who produced them. So that, on World Cleanup Day, let’s rid the planet of trash.
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2021-01-24 18:31
French company to implement $290m environmental project in Tabriz
TEHRAN – A French company is planning to spend more than $290 million to build a waste incineration plant in the northwestern city of Tabriz, in East Azerbaijan province, IRNA reported on Sunday.
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2020-12-15 17:55
Waste-to-energy plant to come on stream in northern Iran
TEHRAN – A waste-to-energy plant will be officially inaugurated on Thursday in the city of Noshahr, northern Mazandaran province.
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2020-08-05 17:39
Waste recycling can generate $10b in value-added products
TEHRAN- The development of the waste recycling industry can lead to $10 billion in value-added products per year, head of the Iranian Recycling Industries Association has stated.
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2020-08-02 19:00
Tehraners produce waste equaling 38 Boeing 747s per day
TEHRAN – In Tehran, on average, about 6,500 tons of waste is produced daily, which is as much as 38 Boeing 747s in weight, Narges Rajaei, deputy director of the Tehran Waste Management Organization, has said.
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2019-12-09 19:19
$238m allocated to manage environmentally hazardous waste
TEHRAN –The Department of Environment (DOE) will receive a budget of 10 trillion rials (nearly $238 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to manage environmentally hazardous waste as proposed in the budget bill for the next calendar year (starting on March 20, 2020).
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2019-11-17 23:15
‘Poor waste management brings annual loss of $10.5b’
TEHRAN – Poor waste management brings the country an annual loss of 440 trillion rials (about $10.5 billion), Hassan Pasandideh, head of waste management affairs at the Department of Environment (DOE), has said.
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2019-07-21 21:52
Tehran Municipality installs RVMs to contain plastic pollution
TEHRAN – Tehran Municipality has installed 50 reverse vending machines (RVMs) across the capital to encourage the citizens to contain plastic pollution and promote waste segregation at source, YJC reported on Sunday.
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2019-07-15 20:30
Comprehensive waste management plan to be prepared for Tehran
TEHRAN – A comprehensive plan for waste management in the capital will be prepared in a collaborative initiative between the waste management organization and the urban research and planning center, both affiliated to Tehran Municipality.
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2019-04-29 21:14
Daily waste generation decreased by 1,000 tons in Tehran
TEHRAN — Generation of waste in metropolis of Tehran has dropped by 1,000 tons per day in the current year (started March 21) compared to a year earlier, director general of Tehran Waste Management Organization affiliated to Tehran Municipality has said.
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2019-01-20 22:54
Tehran mayor calls on universities to cooperate on proper waste management
TEHRAN – Pirouz Hanachi, Tehran’s mayor, has called on academics to cooperate on waste management, which has turned into the capital’s main challenge along with air pollution, Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
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2018-11-29 02:14
Chemical waste leachate raising cancer worrisome: expert
TEHRAN – The leachate produced from hazardous chemical waste penetrating into the soil after rainfall pollutes water with harmful toxic substances and causes cancer, which has raised concern in northern provinces of the country, an environmental expert has said.
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2018-10-13 21:56
‘Reducing waste generation, segregation at source crucial in waste management’
TEHRAN – While reduction of waste generation and separation of waste at source are the two major processes in waste management, in Iran the focus is mainly on the last phase of waste management which is waste disposal, head of soil and water office at the Department of Environment (DOE) has said.
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2018-08-18 08:51
‘Medical waste segregation at source, disinfection is a must’
TEHRAN — Segregating medical waste at source and disinfecting medical waste is a must and the municipality had better come up with practical plans to decrease the costs of medical waste management, an official with the Ministry of Health’s department of health and safety executive (HSE) has said.
