Mazagon Dock outsources cleaning job
Mazagon Dock Limited, India’s premier shipyard company, under Govt. of India is planning to outsource Contract for Cleaning of accommodation areas and machinery compartments of Y-26775. As per the specification,…
Mazagon Dock Limited, India’s premier shipyard company, under Govt. of India is planning to outsource Contract for Cleaning of accommodation areas and machinery compartments of Y-26775. As per the specification,…
If uric acid odour is an indicator of a urinal nearby, a homemaker in Kerala’s Vilappilsala village suggests new visitors to follow the rotting garbage stench to find their way…
Savortex’s Vortex 550 EcoSmart hand dryer has set a Guinness World Record for energy efficiency. EcoSmart dries four pairs of hands using just 24kJ of energy in 15 seconds. Typically,…
E-waste is growing in India at the rate of 10%. Major recycling of e-waste is carried out in the non-formal sector using primitive and hazardous methods. Adequate legislative measures and cost-effective, environment friendly, technological solution would be needed to address the issue. A synopsis
The new rules called the e-waste (management and handling) Rules, 2011 released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, effective from May 2011, aims at improving the safe management of…
Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) Kochi implemented Clean City Movement to introduce an eco-friendly solid waste management system. V Raveendran, Executive Director shares his experience.
The sight of overflowing garbage bins is no more an issue with Panaji, capital of Goa, which started a ‘bin-less city’ campaign almost a decade ago. This is just one…
Tatanagar’s best friend and worst critic – Chotanagpur Passengers’ Association hopes to help the station, trains and tracks stay clean with the help of children. The outfit, which represents the…
The Chandrapur Municipal Corporation (CMC) in Maharashtra has proposed a solid waste management project for disposal of its 100 tonnes garbage daily. The Corporation, with its effective garbage collection mechanism,…
Composting is the most widely employed MSWM technique in India, with above 70 composting plants. Most of these composting facilities handle between 100-1000 TPD of MSW. It is estimated that up to 6% of MSW collected is composted which makes it the only major waste handling technology employed in India. Excerpt from the report on Sustainable Solid Waste Management in India by Ranjith Annepu for the Earth Engineering Center and Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council at Columbia University