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2022-04-20 17:23
Improper waste management incurs loss of $1.7b annually
TEHRAN – Improper waste management brings the environmental damage amounting to 448 trillion rials (nearly $1.7 billion) to the country, Hassan Pasandideh, director of the waste management office of the Department of Environment (DOE), has announced.
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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.
