Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Nagaon Paper Mill, a public sector pulp and paper mill, a unit of Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, is located at Jagiroad, Morigaon district, Assam and generates about 448 tonnes of lime sludge per day as solid waste. Instead of marketed lime, lime sludge waste of the paper mill can …
New Delhi: From now on, all waste paper generated at any Airports Authority of India (AAI) office in Delhi and NCR will be recycled and sold back to the organization as visiting cards, folders, file covers, etc. AAI
In those South American countries where forest plantations are important or have potential for development, investment in them is one option for creating jobs.
VIEW FINDER NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island"s southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide …
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. The Indonesia-based company, known by its initials APP, is a target for …
Lantana camara Linn. is a noxious weed posing a serious threat to the ecology. It demands concrete efforts for its management. L. camara was evaluated for its pulp and paper making properties. Data on chemical constituents, fibre dimensions, unbleached, bleached yield and physical strength properties of pulp sheets were obtained.
A raw material faster to source. Eco issue Owing to environmental concerns, large paper manufacturers are bound to look at waste paper as a supplement, say industry sources R. Balaji Chennai, July 17 Large paper mills that have depended on virgin raw material will increasingly look at recycling paper to …
Controversial regulatory reforms in the environment sector found their way into the Economic Survey too. The report recommended that housing and real estate sector be taken out of the purview of the central environmental clearances regime. It also recommended the creation of an autonomous environmental regulatory authority, which environment and …
The paper mill has commissioned its captive power plant and is selling 5 MW to AP Transco at Rs 4.50 a unit. Ch. R.S. Sarma Rajahmundry, July 1 Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills here is going in for capacity expansion and the project is likely to be completed by January, said …
Paper industry requires large amounts of energy in the form of heat. The energy requirement is met with captive and national grid power. Substantial portion of the energy requirement is met through the generation from the fossil fuels.The industry is also offering tremendous potential to save energy and such savings …
The Indian paper industry has made steady progress since independence and presently has an installed capacity of 9.18 million tons from mere 0.1 million in 1950. The industry in the last few decades has faced a number of challenges, particularly in areas like, obsolescence of technology, non availability of good …
In order to reduce the bleaching cost and problem of organochlorine compound during bleaching of pulp, it has become necessary to reduce the use of chlorine dioxide in existing bleaching sequence without affecting the pulp quality. This study examines the effect of higher dosage of hydrogen peroxide in oxidative extraction …
This paper states the basic concept of Carbon Trading and methodologies. It describes the first step to start with and up to trading the carbon credits in the carbon market. It also reviews the present scenario of generating carbon credits through Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects and trading in the …
With the growing demand of handmade paper both in the domestic and export markets, the Indian handmade paper industry has been confronting with the major issue of scarce availability and cost prohibitiveness of the cotton hosiery waste, the traditionally used principal raw material for making handmade paper. As a result …
Sugar mills have doubled up as power generators and produce 2,000 megawatt of biomass-based energy through cogeneration, says this latest report in Down To Earth. It recommends a strong policy-framework to sustain cogeneration, which is critical for India
Arnab Pratim Dutta Sugar mills have doubled up as power generators, with help from sound policies. But profits are falling now. Can states find a way to sustain cogeneration? Deoband, western Uttar Pradesh. The fourth floor of a building in a sugar factory complex, buzzing with activity. A contraption in …
Sri Lanka has managed to keep the man-elephant conflict at bay. Elephant dung is used to make paper, an excellent source of revenue, and farmers no longer want to harm elephants, writes Michael Patrao Sri Lanka has a sizeable elephant population, which has been under threat in recent times despite …
THRISSUR: Students of biotechnology engineering of Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Kodakara in the district, have come out with a novel project to convert elephant dung into useful bio-products such as paper, briquette, biogas etc. The project can made use to dispose the huge quantity of elephant dung generated …
With a growing demand, India see its import bills on the rise Very few people consider the impact of throwing away scraps of paper or selling newspapers to the local raddiwalas. They may be throwing away a fortune. The Indian paper industry uses three types of raw materials: wood, agro-based …
