Draft Ecomark Certification Rules, 2023
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on October 11, 2023, published the Draft Eco mark Certification Rules, 2023. These rules aim to promote environmentally friendly products
Green Products
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Govt to join the green brigade
THE government, which is one of the biggest consumers of goods and services, has finally decided to join the green cause.
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Gujarat Univ converts banana plant waste into useful products
In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted those parts of the fruit's plant which are usually thrown away as waste into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values. Banana plant
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Now, wood-plastic hybrid to reduce carbon footprint
IWST will use nanotechnology to create this unique material for furniture, car interiors Unique material: Test samples of the wood-polymer composites at the Institute of Wood Science and Technology in Bangalore
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Paper Giant Promises Green Curbs On Expansion
Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the largest paper producers in Asia, said on Thursday it has no immediate plans to expand its two Indonesian pulp mills and would only do so if it secured sustainably produced timber.
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Science & Technology - Briefs
ornithology Birds love noise The house finch and the black-chinned hummingbird are unaffected by noise pollution. In fact, they prefer to nest in noisier areas because it increases their chances of survival. A team isolated the effects of noise pollution on bird communities. For this they chose regions with natural gas extraction plants which contain noise-generating compressors. The
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Recycled paper bags distributed
Plastics not bio-degradable and hit groundwater table Eco-Friendly: Mayor M.Subramanian distributes paper bags made of recycled paper to shopkeepers on the Marina beach in Chennai on Wednesday. CHENNAI: Close to 1,500 paper bags made from recycled paper were distributed by Mayor M. Subramanian at the Marina beach to spread awareness about the
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Green Goes the Auto
The humble Indian auto-rickshaw may soon be reborn in a smart, fuel-conserving avatar. The trigger: A Dutch environmentalist called Stef van Dongen, who took a few too many rides in rickety, smoke belching three-wheelers on a trip to India. Shaken and stirred, he made it his mission to build a better, cleaner model of the auto-rickshaw for Indians.
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Can Wal-Mart Be Sustainable?
Recently, Wal-Mart has been rolling out plans for what it calls a sustainability index
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NID student gives bamboo a new shape
Vasundhara Vyas Mehta, AHMEDABAD: The age-old skill of making household goods and decorative items from bamboo is in for a metamorphosis. And, making his contribution to this transformation is a student of National Institute of Design
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On the frontiers of finance: scaling up investment in sustainable small and medium enterprises in developing countries
This report defines sustainable SMEs as those whose core business produces a triple bottom-line return