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An estimated 100 billion cigarette butts are discarded each year! India generates approximately 26,000 tonnes of cigarette butt waste annually, making it the most littered form of plastic in the…
An estimated 100 billion cigarette butts are discarded each year! India generates approximately 26,000 tonnes of cigarette butt waste annually, making it the most littered form of plastic in the…
Single-Use Plastic into Modular Furniture Two young entrepreneurs from Kerala, Alvin George and Sidharth A K, founders of Carbon & Whale, are turning discarded plastic into modular furniture. In partnership…
Waste management companies are leveraging innovative technologies to convert waste into valuable resources, such as energy, compost, and raw materials for manufacturing. Ramakant Burman-CEO & MD of GreenTech Environ Management…
Urban local bodies asked to streamline waste collection Officials have been asked to make a detailed plan regarding the setting up of six plants where electricity can be generated from…
The East Coast Railway has commissioned the government’s first waste-to-energy plant which will turn e-waste and plastic into light diesel oil in 24 hours. A patented technology called ‘Polycrack’ will…
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planing to use abandoned quarries in the outskirts of the city for setting up C&D (construction and demolition) waste recycling units. The new units…
This could be one of the most disruptive technologies in waste recycling. In a recent development, researchers at MIT have found that perovskite-based photovoltaic cells can be produced from recycled…
Waste recycling and management has long been a burning issue for everyone concerned with clean and green environment. While corporates and households in India are seemingly making all kinds of…
The hot topic being picked up recently by both news agencies and bloggers worldwide is that Sweden, a recycling-rich and squeaky clean Scandinavian nation of more than 9.5 million is…
In striving to create a waste-free world, it is important that we articulate not only our goals but the ways we plan to go about bringing them to fruition. I believe our objectives would be much better served in this regard with a simple word substitution. Rather than focusing on diversion rates as the way we measure recycling success, what we really need to be talking about are “destination rates.”