Solid waste lessons
As part of the World Earth Day, some Chennai school students visited the house of Indra Kumar of Home Exnora, a prominent landmark in Chrompet region. The students and school…
As part of the World Earth Day, some Chennai school students visited the house of Indra Kumar of Home Exnora, a prominent landmark in Chrompet region. The students and school…
The need for increasing green cover in Chennai was stressed at a recent programme organised by Exnora International to promote vegetable roof garden. Chennai has tree coverage of 4.6% as…
With a production capacity of over 160,000 tonnes of recycled paperboards a year, the mills of ITC at Kovai and Bhadrachalam have helped the company attain the distinction of being…
The Tiruchi Railway Division has taken up a pilot project to try out portable toilets at Srirangam station. The toilets are designed and manufactured at Sanaswadi in Pune by Shramik…
Ever thought a vacuum cleaner can sense human emotions? The answer is yes. University of Calgary has announced the invention of a specially-equipped robot vacuum cleaner that can sense human…
This year, the post Pongala festival clean up drive was a challenging task to Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation. The festival was spread across 22 corporation wards, and the1,000-strong Corporation cleaning team…
The civic body in Ranchi would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from the city to convert the waste generated from household into compost– a bio-fertiliser. The RMC…
What is the connection between toilets and weddings? Yes, there is in rural Haryana, where the villagers will give daughters in marriages only to men who have loos at their…
With a ban on plastic bags enforced in New Delhi, the largest ever project to utilize plastic is underway. The Public Works Department, with the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI),…
The “Good Morning” squads which are operating in rural areas as part of ‘Nirmal Gram Abhiyan’ are entrusted with the task of discouraging villagers from defecating in the open. The…