Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
March 9: IT major Wipro has set an example of eco-friendliness through its car-pooling facility which enables employees to share rides rather than use individual vehicles. "As many as 5,000 extra rides are prevented with the I dynamic carpooling facility and we are developing a tool to measure the reduction …
Salem, THE managing director and special officer, Sago Serve (an apex marketing cooperative for sago products), Har Sahay Meena has called on agencies with interests in non-conventional energy to explore the potential for alternative energy in sago and starch units. Meena said that the sago and starch units in the …
Algae are quickly becoming the most attractive successor to traditional biofuels feedstocks like corn and soybeans, and even to next-generation feedstocks such as switchgrass and jatropha, Although algal biofuels are not yet being produced or consumed on a commercial scale, a number of companies are working their way toward doing …
India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough? A fire at Ankleshwar forced India to rethink how it handles hazardous waste. Drums carrying dangerous industrial sludge flew amid leaping flames and …
R. Sairam MADURAI: Huge mounds of garbage piled up in street corners have become an ubiquitous sight across the city, creating not just a sore sight but also a health hazard for people. Besides putting off foreign tourists, the piles of garbage have become a transit point for diseases from …
Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State …
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is …
Mumbai: Breaking new ground : Civic authorities to tap methane from closed grounds for 20 MW The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is getting ready to enter the energy sector and intends producing around 20 MW from waste and putting it on the distribution grid. The electricity will be from the …
The Delhi Jal Board wants to cut down on its electricity bills, earn carbon credits, and all this by utilising bio-gas that is produced at its Okhla sewage treatment plant here in the Capital. After successfully using bio-gas to produce electricity at the Rithala sewage treatment plant, the Jal Board …
LONDON - What we throw away could soon be used to power our cars, if projects to produce ethanol from commercial waste are ramped up. Some companies are exploring the environmental and financial benefits of putting waste to good use and are developing technology to produce bioethanol. Magazine paper company …
Sujay Mehdudia AMSTERDAM: With a spirit of zero waste tolerance, Amsterdam is making the most of waste. Its garbage has turned out to be a fortune for the City of Amsterdam Waste and Energy Company (AEB) which is tasked with turning refuse into sustainable energy and raw materials. Apart from …
The Materials Technology Section (MTS), with the support of the Environment Technology Section and the Marketing and Business Development Department of the ITI has designed and installed a boiler which can use waste polyester material from the garment factories processed into briquettes, as the fuel source for the boilers. Polyester …
New Delhi: At present, Delhi produces 9,000 MT of waste per day. By 2014, this will go up to a massive 14,000 MT per day. The MCD, having run out of space to dump this waste, came up with a master plan for solid waste management in December 2007. A …
With landfill sites full to the brim, MCD has no option but to explore new methods to manage waste Ruhi Bhasin & Neha Lalchandani | TNN Having exhausted its three landfill sites and with no alternative places ready, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is now pinning its hopes on …
Chandigarh: A 2-MW biomass waste-based co-generation power plant has been commissioned at Yamunanagar at a cost of Rs 15.23 crore at Bharat Starch Industries, said Sumita Misra, Director, Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA). The plywood waste, available in huge quantity in Yamunanagar, will be used in the project, she …
If things work according to plan, villages in Jharkhand will soon generate electricity for their own consumption. Dhanbad-based Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research has shown them the way. The institute has discovered a process of generating electricity at a cheap rate from plant waste, particularly from putus, a …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The biotech centre for development of biogas technology and other non-conventional energy sources will implement a project for converting wastes causing environmental pollution to fuel for automobiles. Waste will be converted into biogas and organic manure by using biogas technology. Biogas produced in the process would be used as …
Vishal Sharma / Agra December 08, 2008, 0:44 IST Runs on synthesis gas, could bag order from the US. Ever since the manufacture of conventional technology generators was prohibited in Agra due to pollution concerns, the generator manufacturers of Agra have been looking at various technological options to boost their …
