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[[File:ExnoraY.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Youth Exnora International(YEI) group photo taken during YEI launch.]]

'''Exnora International''' is a non-governmental environmental [[Service club|service organization]] started in 1989 in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]], by [[M. B. Nirmal]], a [[social activist]]. It focuses on preserving nature and preventing [[environmental degradation]].<ref name="g">{{cite web | url= http://www.unesco.org/most/asia3.htm | title=Community Participation for Clean Surroundings - EXNORA India | publisher= [[UNESCO]] | accessdate=2009-08-06}}</ref><ref name="gs">{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/Exnora-award-for-Bhilai-Steel-Plant-chief/article15148676.ece | title=Exnora award for Bhilai Steel Plant chief | date= 22 January 2008 | newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=14 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="gg">{{cite web | url= http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading/upgrading/resources/organizations/ExNoRa.html | title=
ExNoRa International (EI)
| publisher= [[The World Bank Group]] |accessdate=2009-08-06}}</ref>

The name Exnora is derived from '''''ex'''''cellent, '''''no'''''vel and '''''ra'''''dical ideas in solving environmental problems by involving those who caused the problem.<ref name="gg"/> It is an example of a people, public, private (PPP) partnership.

== History ==
Prior to the formation of Exnora, the [[Pammal]] town near Chennai was under served by the local corporation in terms of [[Municipal solid waste|MSW]] collection. M.B. Nirmal and a group of local residents created awareness in the neighborhood regarding the important of appropriate waste management. They set up a model where they collected monthly user fees from the households and employed waste pickers to collect and clear the MSW.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Malhotra|first=Meghna|last2=Baradi|first2=Manvita|last3=Centre -UMC|first3=Urban Management|title=Compendium Of Good Practices in Solid Waste Management, March 2015|url=https://www.academia.edu/22906452/Compendium_Of_Good_Practices_in_Solid_Waste_Management_March_2015|language=en}}</ref>

The Pammal Municipal Corporation (PMC) encouraged Exnora as their fee-based model helped address MSW management in under served areas. At this time they took up the name Exnora Green Pammal. And Exnora grew to collect and manage 16.5 tonnes per day (TPD) of waste generated in Pammal. The PMC collects the balance 18.5 TPD of the total 35 TPD MSW generated by Pammal.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Malhotra|first=Meghna|last2=Baradi|first2=Manvita|last3=Centre -UMC|first3=Urban Management|title=Compendium Of Good Practices in Solid Waste Management, March 2015|url=https://www.academia.edu/22906452/Compendium_Of_Good_Practices_in_Solid_Waste_Management_March_2015|language=en}}</ref>

[[PepsiCo]] also noticed Exnora and partnered with it as part of its [[corporate social responsibility]] program on solid waste management. The Zero Waste Management (ZWM) project started by educating households on the importance and benefits of waste segregation. It facilitated the [[recycling]] of all recyclable MSW and set up [[vermicompost]]ing for the organic waste through a Zero Solid Waste Center. This project achieved 97% household MSW recycling and earned the Exnora-PepsiCo partnership a Golden Peacock Award for Innovation in 2006 and a UNICEF Model Project citation in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.csrworld.net/pepsico%E2%80%93corporate-social-responsibility.asp|title=Pepsico-Corporate Social Responsibility {{!}} Replenishing Water {{!}} Waste Management Programme {{!}} PepsiCo India's|website=www.csrworld.net|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>

UNICEF also published a best practices booklet of Exnora's MSW management model and success in five locations in Tamil Nadu. The aim of the booklet was to have other municipal corporations and urban local bodies replicate Exnora's activities in their cities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/316693/successful-innovations-in-solid-waste-management-systems-examples-from-five-local-bodies-in-tamil-nadu/|title=Successful innovations in solid waste management systems: examples from five local bodies in Tamil Nadu - India Environment Portal {{!}} News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development {{!}} India, South Asia|website=www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>

==Activities==

The organization provides street cleaning services through about 17,000 street chapters, 40% of [[Chennai]] city and 75% of the suburbs, and some other parts of [[Tamil Nadu]]. The street cleaning service includes collection of garbage at homes, sorting at pickup, composting organic waste, and generating income for the "street beautifiers" through the sale of recyclables. The chapters also work with the local corporations and municipalities to address civic problems including sewage leaks, water supply problems, and repairs to street lamps.<ref name="Ghosh">{{cite book|last=Ghosh|first=Archana|author2=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung|others=[[Institute of Social Sciences, Agra|Institute of Social Sciences]]|title=Urban environment management : local government and community action|publisher=Concept Publications|year=2003|pages=52–53|isbn=978-81-8069-040-2|oclc=260087843}}</ref>

The organization's Environmental Training Institute conducts training programmes for school teachers on environmental issues such as [[biodiversity]], [[climate change]], and solid, liquid and zero [[waste management]]. The teachers are taught how to turn a home into a [[green building]] and set up [[vertical gardens]].<ref name="ggg">{{cite news | url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Exnora-initiative-to-sensitise-schoolteachers-to-the-environment/articleshow/5187244.cms | title=Exnora initiative to sensitise schoolteachers to the environment | date= 2 November 2009 | newspaper= [[Times of India]] | accessdate=2009-11-21}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100819130108/http://exnora.in/ Exnora's Website]

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[[Category:Organizations established in 1989]]
[[Category:Environmental organisations based in India]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Chennai]]
[[Category:1989 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]

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