Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
A software company has developed a program that can help companies calculate the net costs and savings from recycling and waste reduction. The program allows users to feed in basic information and calculates, among other things, projected reductions in waste by volume or weight, avoided disposal cost, the net annual …
attitudes towards urban farming in Zimbabwe have been changing of late. Its potential to alleviate economic and environmental problems is being realised. Urban farming is the production of crops and the keeping of livestock on land that is administratively and legally zoned for urban uses. Although it has a relatively …
even as the fourth Conference of Parties ( cop iv ) is about to meet in Kuala Lumpur from October 6 to 10 to decide whether a ban on trade in recyclable wastes under the Basel Convention should be implemented, the Indian government knows that it cannot win. If it …
The British government has launched a project to recycle nearly 40 per cent of its old newspapers and magazines into high-quality news-print by the year 2000. The project will also help reduce the use of virgin pulp. Other environmental benefits include a new, highly efficient water and effluent treatment plant. …
BIOLOGICAL waste will now be recycled to feed fish. A joint project has been undertaken by the University of Queensland, Australia, and state and industry researchers to process waste to feed crayfish and silver perch. The project will reduce the adverse environmental impact of waste products from the intensive livestock …
TO COMBAT the menace of increasing garbage, the residents of Vasant Kunj in New Delhi decided to approach a cop. That is exactly what Sukhbir Tanwar is, a former policeperson who turns garbage into manure. "I want Delhi to be green," says the former sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police …
a novel method of managing food waste from school meals has not only generated economic and environmental dividends, but also established a kinship between urban and rural people. The food waste is recycled into compost for use in agricultural fertilisers. The compost is used by farmers in rural areas to …
the European Commission (ec) hopes that soon most cars meant for scrapyards will be reused. Car owners could soon be taking their old cars for recycling with the same ease and community spirit as they take newspapers, bottles and cans. New proposals are expected from Brussels during the next three …
RECYCLERS turn old cans and bottles into new ones and old newspapers into today's daily. Now it is the turn of waste tyres in the country? Robert Romine, working at Rouse Rubber Industries, Mississippi, us, has introduced an eco-friendly technique for processing old tyres by using microorganisms (Environmental Health Perspectives, …
thanks to the Reserve Bank of India (rbi), the colour of money now will not only be green, but will actually have a green edge. rbi governor C Rangarajan inaugurated a system in December 1996, whereby unfit or mutilated notes were turned into bricquets to be used as fuel. Rangarajan …
Wood can now be produced from waste. The UK's Save Wood Products Limited has come up with a product called durawood that combines the properties of wood and plastic. Derived from recycled polystyrene packaging waste, the product bears the aesthetic and physical properties of wood and the durability of plastic. …
Proctor and Gamble Company is developing a method that it hopes will lead to the largescale and rapid composting of most non-recyclable solid wastes. Its researchers at the Winton Hill Technical Centre in Cincinnati, US, believe that factors like temperature and aeration have a great impact on the process underlying …
the Japanese (who else?) are stealing a march over other industrialised nations in recycling. While earlier it was the law for the promotion of utilisation of recyclable resources passed in 1992 which forced industries to improve recycling methods, it is now the law for the promotion of sorted collection and …
problems of environmental degradation can be ironed out, literally! Christopher Nagel and his team at the Molten Metal Technology in Waltham, Massachusetts, along with Robert Bach, a chemist at the Wayne State University, have arrived at the conclusion that molten iron could do the trick of recycling everything from toxic …
A company in Kenya is putting old rubber tyres to good use. The use of locally reclaimed rubber is fast catching on in the country. Recycled rubber has not only helped improve environment but also created new job opportunities and reduced imports. The material is reclaimed mainly from abandoned old …
Imagine a city where recycled garbage is traded to buy essential items; old wooden electricity posts are reused in office buildings, bridges and public squares retired buses transform into mobile classrooms for adult education and; a gunpowder depot becomes a theatre-in-the-round. Curitiba, a city located 200 miles southwest of Sao …
STRAWBERRY PACT: Mumbai-based Gemini Agritech Ltd and Israel-based Plastro Gvat have entered into a technical arrangement for the supply of strawberry cultivation technology and support on a turnkey basis. The company has also made a marketing arrangement with Holland's Flodac B V for a period of five years for its …
Jute fibres and wastes can help make different grades of special papers and board, thus cutting down on the use of precious wood, say researchers from the Calcutta-based Jute Technological Research Institute. They say that jute fibres in the form of jute caddies, root cuttings and thread wastes, which have …
On-line recycling The World Resource Foundation, a British charity organisation, has started PRISM, an on-line service exclusively pertaining to recycling of waste products. The site offers an excellent range of recycling information, a broad database and an opportunity for enthusiasts to initiate and continue a discussion or a debate. The …
A CLEANER and healthier world may not be a distant dream if we, as its citizens, learn to use its resources to the maximum. For achieving this, conserving energy through means like recycling waste and bio-degradable matter would make all the difference. The department of microbiology under the School of …
