HECS and Daiki Axis Company recently launched a Japanese technology-based sewage treatment plant for the domestic, industrial and commercial sectors of Chennai. These plants are designed with a treatment capacity…
As the first suspected cases of coronavirus in India — which claimed over 100 lives in China and has 56 million Chinese citizens under lockdown — the WHO has released…
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has sent out notices to all the state’s municipal corporations, warning that they will have to start paying fines from April 1st if they fail…
Green Business Certification Inc (GBCI) recently released the list of India’s Top 10 States for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the world’s most widely used green building rating…
Seven years after the Bombay High Court told the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to shut the Deonar dumping ground, the civic body has finalised a contractor to set up a…
Delhi’s first smog tower has started working at its Lajpat Nagar central market. The 20-feet-tall tower is fitted with exhaust fans to suck in polluted air and can remove up…
Married at the age of 10, Usha Chaumar of Alwar was treated as an untouchable as she was engaged in the task of manual scavenging. On Republic Day, she was…
In an unprecedented attempt to provide the Facility Management segment the much-needed formal training and qualification, Sam Cherian, MD-Schevaran Laboratories in a JV with CleanfixSwitzerland and Filmop-Italy joined hands with…
The East Coast Railway has commissioned the government’s first waste-to-energy plant which will turn e-waste and plastic into light diesel oil in 24 hours. A patented technology called ‘Polycrack’ will…
Every day, Indian homes, restaurants and food processing units generate unimaginable quantities of food waste, which, until fairly recently, was mixed along with all other waste and sent to a…