NMC’s cleanliness drive for monsoon
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) health department has decided to initiate action against street food vendors. NMC health officer (sanitation) Dr Milind Ganvir told CIJ, “The Corporation has made it…
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) health department has decided to initiate action against street food vendors. NMC health officer (sanitation) Dr Milind Ganvir told CIJ, “The Corporation has made it…
Mumbai will soon have two recycling plants in the city. It is expected that these recycling plants will recycle 250 million litres of water every day. Speaking to CIJ, Additional…
The doctors at KEM hospital in Mumbai took the brooms in a unique cleanliness drive to create awareness among patients and their relatives. Lead by the dean of the hospital,…
A family in Colorado will never again have to worry about toilet breaks on the road after designing a twin-bowl toilet car. It took four years and three prototypes for…
European scientists have developed a robot “DustCart” that can collect garbage from door to door. About the size of a person the robot can navigate even the narrowest alleys and…
A UK based 13-year-old school boy Hibiki Kono does a spiderman with a vacuum cleaner. He climbs the walls with the help of a backpack vacuum cleaner which uses the…
To ward off harmful bacteria, scientists have created a new form of paper which could have wide ranging applications from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresh for…
The Parassala Government Hospital in Neyyattinkara in Kerala has won the State Pollution Control Board’s award for cleanliness and waste management practices. The hospital came first in the category of…
Lakshwadeep Islands will be the first in India to use bacteria in toilets. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be installing 21 such biological toilets in Kavaratti and…
The Rajasthan Government has recently announced a complete ban on use of plastic carry-bags all over the state from August. A notification declared the entire state a “plastic carry-bag-free zone”.…