Rubbish Hotel

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…

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Trashy Tunes

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…

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Shopping on the river

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…

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Urine Bank

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,…

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Worms on the rise

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…

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Dung to Energy

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…

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SANITATION

‘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…

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