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15-day ‘Safai Nisf Eman’ drive completed

The News International 22 Mar 2023
Punjab government’s 15-day zero waste ‘Safai Nisf Eman’ campaign has been completed successfully on Tuesday ... LWMC CEO Babar Sahib Din in his briefing told that under the special campaign, 274 union councils of Lahore were made zero waste.
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LDA panel to check frauds in plots’ sale by scheme developers

Dawn 22 Mar 2023
The 15-day zero-waste “Safai Nisf Eman” campaign launched by the Punjab government, has been completed in Lahore ... “274 union councils of Lahore were declared “zero waste UCs,” he said, adding that more than 504 open plots were also cleared in various towns for the convenience of citizens.
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Egyptian startup turns millions of plastic bags into tiles ‘tougher than cement’

Hindustan Times 21 Mar 2023
Egypt is one of the worst polluters in the Mediterranean region with around 74,000 tonnes of plastic waste entering the sea per year, according to a 2020 report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a non-profit organisation. Plastic waste is often discarded in the street or disposed of in informal dumps or burned.
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Plastic paving: Egyptian startup turns millions of bags into tiles

Gulf Daily News 21 Mar 2023
Egypt is one of the worst polluters in the Mediterranean region with around 74,000 tonnes of plastic waste entering the sea per year, according to a 2020 report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a non-profit organisation. Plastic waste is often discarded in ...
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LG&CD caretaker minister visits Faisalabad, chairs various meetings

Urdu Point 21 Mar 2023
Presiding over another meeting of Faisalabad Waste Management Company, the minister directed the management to come up to expectations of people as far as services delivery was concerned ... The minister said that zero waste operations had been completed in 12,113 union councils across Punjab province.
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Emmanuel Macron's government may be teetering

Hot Air 20 Mar 2023
Labor unions went on strike, including the trash collectors, leading the streets of Paris to be filled with refuse ... (Politico) ... Industrial action is expected to disrupt public transport, refineries, universities and waste collection this week, as trade unions hope to strong-arm the government into withdrawing the pensions reform ... (Free tip ... .
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Union Berlin power past Frankfurt 2-0 to tighten hold on third spot

Reuters 19 Mar 2023
BERLIN, March 19 (Reuters) - Union Berlin powered past Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 with second-half goals from captain Rani Khedira and substitute Kevin Behrens on Sunday to tighten their hold on third place in the Bundesliga and leave their opponents outside the top four.
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HMWSSB bags World Water Award

Deccan Chronicle 19 Mar 2023
He said that it is the responsibility of every citizen to protect water resources and if water is wasted, it causes irreparable damage to all living beings. Under the joint auspices of Unesco and the Union ministry of water power, many government departments and corporate organisations related to water management participated in this competition.
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French protesters set fire to Lyon town hall in nationwide uprising against Macron's pension reforms ...

The Daily Mail 18 Mar 2023
Trade unions mobilised workers to briefly block a Paris ring road. Angry critics, political opponents and labor unions around France all blasted Macron for his decision to ram the bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through the legislature ... His calculated risk infuriated opposition lawmakers, many citizens and unions.
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As millions of solar panels age out, recyclers hope to cash in

Grist 18 Mar 2023
It’s a good bit of waste,” said Taylor Curtis, a legal and regulatory analyst at the lab ... In the European Union, end-of-life photovoltaic panels have, since 2012, been treated as electronic waste under the EU’s waste electrical and electronic equipment directive, known as WEEE.
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J&K Budget Lays Special Focus On Employment Generation: Govt

Kashmir Observer 18 Mar 2023
Third party Inspection system will be established within Finance Department for ensuring 100% physical verification of all the projects being implemented in the Union Territory and Solid Waste Management will be ensured in all the towns and Service Level Benchmarking System will be introduced.
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LWMC striving to provide exceptional cleanliness services to Lahorites

Urdu Point 17 Mar 2023
Lahore Waste Management Company is making all out efforts to provide exceptional cleanliness services to the Lahorites ... against illegal dumping of waste ... LWMC CEO Babar Sahib Din said that LWMC was making 274 union councils of the city zero waste under a 15-day special campaign.
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Fires are started across France and protests continue after Macron forces through hated pension law ...

The Daily Mail 17 Mar 2023
Trade unions mobilised workers to briefly block a Paris ring road. Angry critics, political opponents and labor unions around France all blasted President Emmanuel Macron's for his decision to ram the bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through the legislature ... His calculated risk infuriated opposition lawmakers, many citizens and unions.
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L.A. neighborhood vexed by unwanted Uber Eats deliveries

The Oregonian 17 Mar 2023
At first, the deliveries were sort of delightful. There were chicken sandwiches, milkshakes, pastries, lattes and more ... The thing is, the recipients never ordered any of it ... We were joking at first ... “I’ve been getting 20-piece nuggets with sweet and sour sauce,” said Currier, who is a director of a labor union. “What a waste to send it to a vegetarian.
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Bill says demolition is public work too

NW Labor Press 16 Mar 2023
Right now, demolition and hazardous waste ... That omission means cities, school districts, and other public agencies can divide up a project in an attempt to pay less for demo or hazardous waste removal — and undermine fair market wages for workers, union representatives testified.

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