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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Shades of green
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who dig green and those who don t
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The colour of money
Green is the colour of money. In the upper niche of the Indian consumer market, where fads rule the roost, any product that is tagged eco friendly has an edge. <font class='UCASE'>Yoga Rangatia</font> investigates
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MONEYMAKERS
full of gas: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), New Delhi, has developed a technology for converting liquid natural gas into value-added liquefied petroleum gas. Following this breakthrough,
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Green manufacturing
Green product design could be a solution to depleting levels of the Earth s mineral resources
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Paints from potatoes
ICI, a UK-based company, is deve loping an environmentally-sound paint for households that replaces up to 25 per cent of the petroleum-based chemicals now used in paints. The paint will use starch
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INDIA
• Experts in Bangalore recently opined that most of the city's 60 million rats are likely to be carriers of the organism which causes killer diseases. Shakunthala Sridhara, expert on rodent
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Fewer 'green claims'
The number of new products marketed in the US as'environmentally friendy declined in 1996, according to the analysis of data available with Marketing Intelligence Service, a New York-based
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Phasing out plastic
Greenpeace helps in the manufacture of a biodegradable credit card minus its plastic content
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Green guitars
Sound from acoustic guitars may soon become more melodious for environmentalists. Hiroyuki Yano, Yuuzoh Furuta and Hiroyuki Nakagawa of the Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan have discovered a
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MERCOSUR BLOCK
Of late, jazzy terms like 'natural product' (for a traditional herbal drink), 'bio-yoghurts', 'super eco' (for unleaded gasolene) and 'natural supermarkets' have invaded the 'mercosur' trading