An effective e-waste recycling is possible only when we address the 4L’s – Legislation (effective implementation), Liability (effective awareness campaigns to familiarise stakeholders), Logistic (Collection & Warehousing) and Liquidity (Money…
Pune based Praj Industries has developed a new technology, which can produce ethanol from waste such as corncobs and bagasse (a pulpy waster leftover after the juice has been extracted…
The Maharashtra government has expedited the process of procuring hi-tech garbage collection boats from Turkey to clean the coastal waters. The state environment department is coordinating with the administration at…
Jalmudi village in Andhra Pradesh could be the first village in the world to get a supply of clean drinking water by harnessing humidity in the air. The project, a…
It is a festivity of colours each day here, as colourful streams of water gush down the drains and fall into a huge pool of muck and fluid. This concoction of colour and grime is churned at high speed to split clean the slime from the water. Less than 50km off the textile city of Coimbatore, the hosiery hub of India, Tirupur, houses 6,250 factories that spin out garments in pleasing hues for the export market. Unlike other dyeing centres in the country, environment-conscious Tirupur has its waste treated within each unit, with no toxic waste escaping into the storm water drains anywhere in the city. How do they manage this? Mohana goes inspecting.
The Chennai forest department plans to deploy a check post, watch towers and an office close to the Pallikaranai marshland after innumerable complaints were lodged by residents on burning garbage…
Human hair waste can be converted into useful nutrients for plants show studies. When human hair waste mixed with compost starts degenerating and mineralising, it is capable of providing sufficient…
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has undertaken the task of cleaning the lakes in Mumbai, including Sion lake, Sheetal Talao in Kurla and Powai lake through scientific method of de-silting. Earth-moving…
Fatehabad is set to become the first pink and the most beautiful town of Haryana if the planning of the district authorities is translated into reality. All shops at the…
Community-managed ‘kuhls’ or water canals that date back to the pre-colonial Katoch dynasty (1690 to 1805), are today in dire straits. Human faeces, animal waste and garbage float in this water, which is even used for drinking!