Desso, an international carpet manufacturer, has launched a next-generation new carpet – AirMaster – that cleans indoor air. The carpet, primarily aimed at offices, hospitals, schools and other public buildings …

The Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 and the United Nations Development Programme have, announced the launch of the project on “Low Carbon Campaign for Commonwealth Games 2010”. Developed with the …

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Nilfisk-Advance has acquired all the assets of Tempe (Arizona) based Cyclone Surface Cleaning which provides sustainable contract cleaning services for airport runway rubber and paint line removal as well as …

The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation has recently bought a road-sweeping machine from Roots Multiclean Ltd (RMCL) through the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. It would initially be deployed …

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 …