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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has imposed a total ban on the use of Plaster of Paris (PoP) for making Ganesh idols, saying that it pollutes water,…
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…
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…
Pudumjee Hygiene has started a total hygiene outreach programme targeting school kids and corporates. Schoolchildren, easily affected by communicable diseases and infections, are being educated to understand the importance of…
After several councilors of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) complained about the sanitation department’s poor response to complaints, the civic body has now given sanitation officials mobile sets to…
Scientists have modeled a system that may be used to control mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit, without the use of pesticides. In the proposed system, mosquitoes are engineered to…
India’s first ever “vacuum cleaner on tracks” is the result of Central Railway’s (CR) dire need for a cleaning machine which could clean up the railway tracks that get littered…