{"id":12560,"date":"2013-07-23T12:41:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T07:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12560"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T07:11:52","slug":"e-waste-campaign-to-kick-off-from-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/e-waste-campaign-to-kick-off-from-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"E-waste campaign to kick-off from Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-Waste is becoming a major environmental problem throughout the world especially in developing countries like ours. <strong>E-waste<\/strong> contains more than 1000 different substances, which fall under \u2018hazardous\u2019 and \u2018non-hazardous\u2019 categories.<\/p>\n<p>To address this mounting menace, <strong>Centre for innovation in science and social action (CISSA)<\/strong> is launching an awareness drive beginning from schools. CISSA will launch the e-waste awareness drive in 50 schools in the city and will install e-waste bins there. Of the 50 schools 22 are government schools and the remaining 28 are private schools. The drive will start from Government Higher Secondary school Punnamoodu near Nemom on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign will create awareness among the students on the hazards of e-waste. It is designed as a one-and-a-half hour programme in every school&#8221; said C Suresh Kumar, General Secretary of CISSA<\/p>\n<p>CISSA has prepared a module and classes will be held according to it. The module will check the basic awareness of school children in managing e-waste and the classes will enlighten students on various aspects of recycling e-waste. Two trained teachers will cover one school. A documentary on e-waste management will also be screened at the schools.<\/p>\n<p>After the campaign, waste bins will be installed at school premises to collect e-waste that will be recycled by<strong> &#8216;Earth Sense Recycle Private Limited&#8217;<\/strong> an e-waste recycler in Kerala. Students can bring electronic waste such used mobile phones, video games, computer accessories from their homes, except batteries and fluorescent and CFL lamps. In the second phase the e-waste drive will be extended to 100 schools. The campaign will have a state-level launch next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Waste is becoming a major environmental problem throughout the world especially in developing countries like ours. E-waste contains more than 1000 different substances, which fall under \u2018hazardous\u2019 and \u2018non-hazardous\u2019 categories. To address this mounting menace, Centre for innovation in science and social action (CISSA) is launching an awareness drive beginning from schools. CISSA will launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}