New environmental legislation in Spain will require tobacco businesses to pay for cleaning up the millions of cigarette ends that consumers throw away each year, as reported by the Guardian. The decision, which takes effect this Friday, is one of a number of policies intended to lessen waste and boost recycling.

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As part of 'Puneet Sagar Abhiyan' (Clean Ocean Movement) and Environmental Protection Activities, the Indian Coast Guard Station Mandapam in Southern India performed cleaning of eco-sensitive coral reef sites.

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The activity was carried out at sites in the Palk Bay area, which is a shallow water region between the southern Coast of India (Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district) and the neighbouring island nation, Sri Lanka.

Teams comprising of three Coast Guard divers and other divers from a private organization carried out nine hours of diving and clean-up activities, which led to recovery of multiple ghost nets. Ghost nets are basically abandoned or discarded fishing nets that are drifting in the ocean or are left entangled in rocky areas.

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In the low visibility at the seabed, these nets often trap marine life including fish, dolphins, sharks, turtles, dugongs, crabs and even divers. A video shared by the Indian Coast Guard showcases the low visibility at the seabed and how small forms of marine life are getting trapped in these nets. Divers are seen disentangling the nets, cutting them and bringing them ashore and eventually discarding the nets.

As part of 'Puneet Sagar Abhiyan' (Clean Ocean Movement) and Environmental Protection Activities, the Indian Coast Guard Station Mandapam in Southern India performed cleaning of eco-sensitive coral reef sites.

As part of 'Puneet Sagar Abhiyan' (Clean Ocean Movement) and Environmental Protection Activities, the Indian Coast Guard Station Mandapam in Southern India performed cleaning of eco-sensitive coral reef sites. Also read | SCO Summit 2022 LIVE: Modi holds talks with Erdogan, discusses bilateral trade The activity was carried out at sites in the Palk Bay area, which is a shallow water region between the southern Coast of India (Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district) and the neighbouring island nation, Sri Lanka. Teams comprising of three Coast Guard divers and other divers from a private organization carried out nine hours of diving and clean-up activities, which led to recovery of multiple ghost nets. Ghost nets are basically abandoned or discarded fishing nets that are drifting in the ocean or are left entangled in rocky areas. Divers from #indian #coastguard and a pvt orgn performed diving, ocean bed cleanup activities in the shallow waters of the palk bay #tamilnadu between #india & #SriLanka It’s an ecosensitive area with dugongs ,coral reefs.. multiple ghost nets that trap marine life were removed pic.twitter.com/yIztAoms1S — Sidharth.M.P (@sdhrthmp) September 16, 2022 × In the low visibility at the seabed, these nets often trap marine life including fish, dolphins, sharks, turtles, dugongs, crabs and even divers. A video shared by the Indian Coast Guard showcases the low visibility at the seabed and how small forms of marine life are getting trapped in these nets. Divers are seen disentangling the nets, cutting them and bringing them ashore and eventually discarding the nets.

India's Coast Guard divers clean coral reef zones, remove ghost nets - WATCH

A recent cleaning operation in Bassin de la Villette, an artificial lake in the middle of Paris found bizarre pollutants underneath. From a flat screen tv to bikes, many unlikely objects have been found.

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Eleven students drowned and another ten were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java province.

As per the local officials, 150 students from an Islamic high school were participating in the cleanup along the banks of the Cileueur river. Out of 150, 21 of them slipped into the water.

Deden Ridwansyah, the chief of the Bandung search and rescue office, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "The weather was good and there was no flash flood."

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"Those children who drowned were holding each others’ hands. One of them slipped and the others followed.”

The rescue team somehow managed to save 10 of the students. They were then sent to a nearby hospital. Rescuers used big orange inflatable rafts to search for victims.&nbsp;

Once after the rescue mission was done, all the students were counted.&nbsp;

As per media reports, the students were not wearing flotation devices. Some reports also said that they were trying to cross the river, which is popular for rafting and inner-tubing. This is how they fell in.&nbsp;

Eleven students drowned and another ten were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java province. As per the local officials, 150 students from an Islamic high school were participating in the cleanup along the banks of the Cileueur river.

Eleven students drowned and another ten were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java province. As per the local officials, 150 students from an Islamic high school were participating in the cleanup along the banks of the Cileueur river. Out of 150, 21 of them slipped into the water. Deden Ridwansyah, the chief of the Bandung search and rescue office, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "The weather was good and there was no flash flood." Also read | International Space Station mistakenly rotates by 57 degrees as film shooting continues "Those children who drowned were holding each others’ hands. One of them slipped and the others followed.” The rescue team somehow managed to save 10 of the students. They were then sent to a nearby hospital. Rescuers used big orange inflatable rafts to search for victims. Once after the rescue mission was done, all the students were counted. As per media reports, the students were not wearing flotation devices. Some reports also said that they were trying to cross the river, which is popular for rafting and inner-tubing. This is how they fell in.

Indonesia: 11 students drown, 10 rescued, during a river clean up

South Africans came together in solidarity to clean up shopping centres and stores looted during a week of shocking violence that rocked the country and left more than 200 dead. As South Africans mark Nelson Mandela Day, President Cyril Ramaphosa called on people to join the cleanup efforts to rebuild the country.

South Africans clean up after unrest to mark Nelson Mandela Day

The electoral bonds mechanism is a substantial improvement in transparency over the present system and the government is open to suggestions to further cleanse political funding, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today.

In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake expenditures in cash.

The sources are anonymous or pseudonymous. The quantum of money was never disclosed and the system ensures unclean money coming from unidentifiable sources.

&quot;It is a wholly non-transparent system. Most political groups seem fairly satisfied with the present arrangement and would not mind this status-quo to continue.

&quot;The effort, therefore, is to run down any alternative system which is devised to cleanse up the political funding mechanism,&quot; Jaitley said.

The finance minister had last week announced the contours of the electoral bonds, which will be sold by country&#39;s latest lender SBI and will have a tenure of just 15 days.

The bonds are being pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties.

Jaitley said the choice has now to be &quot;consciously&quot; made between the existing system of substantial cash donations involving unclean money and other transparent options like cheque, online transactions or electoral bonds.

&quot;While all three methods involve clean money, the first two are totally transparent and the electoral bonds scheme is a substantial improvement in transparency over the present system of no-transparency,&quot; he said.

&quot;The government is willing to consider all suggestions to further strengthen the cleansing of political funding in India. It has to be borne in mind that impractical suggestions will not improve the cash denominated system. They would only consolidate it,&quot; Jaitley wrote.

He said India, despite being?the largest democracy in the world,?has not been able to evolve a transparent political funding system in the last seven decades.

&quot;The round the year functioning of the political parties involves a large expenditure...?These expenditures run into hundreds of crores. Yet there has not been a transparent funding mechanism of the political system,&quot; he said.&nbsp;

The finance minister had last week pitched electoral bonds as an alternative to cash donations

The electoral bonds mechanism is a substantial improvement in transparency over the present system and the government is open to suggestions to further cleanse political funding, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake expenditures in cash. The sources are anonymous or pseudonymous. The quantum of money was never disclosed and the system ensures unclean money coming from unidentifiable sources. "It is a wholly non-transparent system. Most political groups seem fairly satisfied with the present arrangement and would not mind this status-quo to continue. "The effort, therefore, is to run down any alternative system which is devised to cleanse up the political funding mechanism," Jaitley said. The finance minister had last week announced the contours of the electoral bonds, which will be sold by country's latest lender SBI and will have a tenure of just 15 days. The bonds are being pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties. Jaitley said the choice has now to be "consciously" made between the existing system of substantial cash donations involving unclean money and other transparent options like cheque, online transactions or electoral bonds. "While all three methods involve clean money, the first two are totally transparent and the electoral bonds scheme is a substantial improvement in transparency over the present system of no-transparency," he said. "The government is willing to consider all suggestions to further strengthen the cleansing of political funding in India. It has to be borne in mind that impractical suggestions will not improve the cash denominated system. They would only consolidate it," Jaitley wrote. He said India, despite being?the largest democracy in the world,?has not been able to evolve a transparent political funding system in the last seven decades. "The round the year functioning of the political parties involves a large expenditure...?These expenditures run into hundreds of crores. Yet there has not been a transparent funding mechanism of the political system," he said.

Government open to proposals to further clean up political funding: Jaitley

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