{"id":9008,"date":"2022-10-28T04:58:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:11:57","slug":"floating-trash-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/floating-trash-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Trash Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Floating Trash Barrier:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Floating trash barrier could address the serious environmental issue of floating solid waste pollution plaguing India\u2019s water bodies.<\/li>\n<li>The FTB uses the natural flow of water to bring the trash to the riverbank where it is deployed and from there the trash is manually or mechanically removed.<\/li>\n<li>The FTB is deployed in eight cities \u2014 Bengaluru, Chennai, Puducherry, Hyderabad, Mysuru, Thanjavur, Tuticorin and Coimbatore.<\/li>\n<li>The FTB is said to be successful in cleaning up the Cooum in Chennai and the Musi in Hyderabad.<\/li>\n<li>In Bengaluru, it has been deployed in some storm-water drains, and Nagawara and Dasarahalli lakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Cleaning and Restoring India\u2019s Water Bodies Challenge:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleaning and Restoring India\u2019s Water Bodies Challenge was conducted by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA).<\/li>\n<li>The challenge was conducted by the\u00a0<strong>Waste to Wealth Mission \u2014 Swachh Bharat Unnat Bharat Mission\u00a0<\/strong>under the Office of the PSA during November 27, 2020 and February 17, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GLNAEMACO.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating trash barrier address environmental issue of floating solid waste pollution in water bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}