Sodexo awarded for food services
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions, has announced that it has been chosen as the winning bidder for one contract of up to eight years to provide…
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions, has announced that it has been chosen as the winning bidder for one contract of up to eight years to provide…
Passengers travelling in long distance will soon get respite from the clogged drains and stench from the toilets. The railway board recently announced र14.20crore for developing eco-friendly toilets for train…
A hotel made entirely of rubbish has recently been opened in the Spanish capital, Madrid. The walls of the Beach Garbage Hotel are covered with detritus deposited by the tide…
Taiwan has a rather musical way of dealing with its residential waste. Much like an ice-cream van, the garbage trucks tinkle a tune to alert you of their presence! Residents…
The filth filled, stench-emitting Sabarmati river will now turn into a shopping and entertainment zone on the pattern of the Seine riverfront of Paris. French architect Bernard Kohn, who lived…
In a bid to use human urine as fertilizer, efforts to set up the country’s first Human Urine Bank have been initiated at Musiri, about 35km from Tiruchirapalli. The initiative,…
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has imposed a total ban on the use of Plaster of Paris (PoP) for making Ganesh idols, saying that it pollutes water,…
The number of school children from slums and rural areas infected by deadly parasitic worms such as tapeworms and round worms is increasing in India due to poor sanitation and…
Several tonnes of mule dung that is littered everyday on the 13km track of the cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi will soon become a source of energy generation for…
‘Ladies Only’: A response to nature’s call Up until five years ago, every monsoon, the little tribal village of Gothangaon in the Nagpur district of Maharashtra would use up the…