waste management

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  • National strategic plan on waste management due in 3 months 2024-12-07 15:29

    Strategic plan on waste management due in 3 months

    TEHRAN –The Department of Environment (DOE), in cooperation with the ministries of industry, energy, oil, agriculture, and health, is obliged to develop a national strategic plan for waste management by the end of the first year of the seventh five-year national development plan that is March 20, 2025.

  • UNDP provides Iran with autoclaves for medical waste management 2024-07-09 16:06

    UNDP provides Iran with autoclaves for medical waste management

    TEHRAN - In a significant move to strengthen Iran’s national healthcare waste management capabilities, the United Nations Development Programme has installed seven autoclaves in five provinces to safely manage the medical waste in the country.

  • Domestically-made ‘compost turner’ aims to improve waste management 2024-01-31 15:47

    Domestically-made ‘compost turner’ aims to improve waste management

    TEHRAN –An Iranian knowledge-based company has managed to build a ‘windrow turner’ machinery that converts organic and wet waste into compost.

  • Improper disposal costs environment $1.7b annually: official 2024-01-29 12:20

    Improper disposal costs environment $1.7b annually: official

    TEHRAN –Improper management of waste in the country causes 870 trillion rials (some $1.7 billion) in damage to the environment and natural resources every year, an official with the Department of Environment (DOE) has said.

  • Iran ranks 17th in waste production 2022-09-28 19:07

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    Iran ranks 17th in waste production

    TEHRAN – In 2021, Iran ranked 17th in terms of waste production, according to the World Population Review.

  • “Zero Waste”; dream or reality? 2022-07-18 18:52

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    “Zero Waste”; dream or reality?

    TEHRAN – Zero waste is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages the redesign of resource life cycles so that all products are reused. But, is it possible to reach the point or does it remain a dream?

  • Improper waste management incurs loss of $1.7b annually 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.

  • the 19th International Exhibition on Environment 2022-02-26 17:10

    Tehran hosting intl. exhibitions on environment, waste management

    TEHRAN – The 3rd International Exhibition on Waste Management, Recycling, Municipal Services, and Related Industries (IWEX 2022) and the 19th International Exhibition on Environment opened on Saturday at Tehran Permanent International Fairground.

  • Let’s clean up the world: “We are the first one to be hurt” 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.