Waste

[box type=”shadow” ]Compost is homegrown and the only magic that can turn waste into gold. It nourishes the soil and cures it of all human mishandling. Poonam Bir Kasturi, Founder, …

Nearly three years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made one of the boldest comments on public health that I have ever heard from an elected official. It’s still having …

[box type=”shadow” ] Currently, every year India produces a whopping 62 million tonnes of waste out of which 45 million tonnes remains untreated. The need of the hour is to …

The Urban Development Ministry has announced the cleanest city survey of 434 cities across India. Indore and Bhopal are the cleanest cities of India, according to the Swachh ratings. Cities …

In a high-level conference organised by the Punjab Dry Cleaners’ Association in Ludhiana in March, more than 100 laundry and dry-cleaning service providers from across North India gathered to discuss …

[box type=”shadow” ] Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has evolved as a model to conserve water and also to effectively discharge used water back into the ground; thereby recharging the water tables …

[box type=”shadow” ] The application of water treatment technologies to achieve “minimal liquid discharge” (MLD) or “zero liquid discharge” (ZLD) is increasingly under consideration in today’s water stressed world. RO …

Plastic bottles, the largest waste menace confronting the world and a highly non-bio degradable material that takes over 400 years to disintegrate, are being put through several scientific processes for …

[box type=”shadow” ]When it comes to waterless urinals, there are a series of questions that cloud the mind of most facility professionals in India. Aishwarya Chaturvedi, an Engineer, Social Scientist, …

The participants included Dr B. Janardhan Reddy, Municipal Commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation; P. Poornachandra Rao, Joint Director 2, Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh; P. …