Report by Karnataka in OA No 606 of 2018 regarding compliance of solid waste management and used water management. Total wet waste generated is 3832 TPD out of which 3613 TPD has been processed. Thus, there is a gap of 219 TPD. Some of the actions taken to tackle the …
Agriculture sector contributes a major portion in gross production of India. In spite of this, agriculture today is finding itself in increasing difficulties. The adverse impact of agriculture based on synthetic fertilizers and herbicides is visible in the degradation of soil fertility, quality of food, taste of food and so …
Sometimes you might go to a shop and in spite of protests handed a plastic bag. The bag will perish naturally, the shop attendant might tell you. In the past three years, different kinds of plastics claiming to be biodegradable, have entered the Indian market. But most of these brands …
A three-year-old case related to garbage disposal in village panchayats will come for final hearing on November 29 before the Division Bench of Bombay High Court at Goa. The double bench comprising of Justices D G Karnik and F M Reis directed all the VPs to file a compliance report …
Due to increasing environmental concerns in the wastewater treatment sector, the environmental impacts of organic waste disposal procedures require careful evaluation. However, the impacts related to the return of organic matter to agricultural soils are difficult to assess. The goals of this study are to assess the environmental impacts of …
If human urine is properly collected and used for agriculture, it contributes to improved environmental sanitation in cities and reduces the costs of crop production. The innovation lies in the integration of agriculture, environment and sanitation sectors.
To better understand the linkage between sanitation and agriculture at municipal scale, a study was carried out that addressed the following research questions: - How does a larger investment in flush toilets affect water quality and urban farmers? - How much of the nutrient demand of urban farmers could be …
Rapid urbanisation in developing countries intensifies the challenges of making sufficient food available for the increasing urban population, and managing the related waste flow. Unlike in rural communities, there is usually little or no return of food biomass and related nutrients into the food production process. Most waste ends up …
The disposal of waste presents an increasing challenge to the administrative bodies of megacities. The Municipal Corporation of the Indian city Pune has introduced source separation systems and onsite organic waste composting. The citizens concerned are looking for practical ways to treat their organic wastes and they have found city …
Agriculture scientist Preeti Joshi has the recipe for the perfect compost and has been promoting it in Wardha district of Maharashtra for 20 years. She tells Aparna Pallavi why farmers fail to use it despite their eagerness to do so. Excerpts:On factors that dissuade farmers Farmers are becoming aware of …
During the day, Amanjeet Gill is a diplomat, tall, urbane and well travelled. But on weekends, 41-year-old Gill becomes a farmer. He is the driving force behind a non-profit called the Farmer
Chromolaena odorata (Eupatorium odoratum), commonly known as Eupatorium, is an introduced weed which became a menace in plantations, forests, marginal lands and open areas in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka. The weed calls for effective control by applying suitable methods. Keeping this in view, an experiment was conducted to …
Fifteen years ago if your household recycled its Diet Coke cans and Cheerios boxes, you were considered environmentally forward. Now, if you do not compost, you are considered lazy and wasteful. In a city where recycling and composting are at your fingertips and events such as Green Drinks and EcoTuesday …
A Composting unit over a drain may seem a little bit of a surprise for many. But, welcome to Borda in the jurisdiction of Margao Municipal Council where a composting unit is presently under construction on a water nullah. While work on the composting unit has raised many an eyebrows, …
Composting of leaf litter using the epigeic, exotic earthworm Eisenia fetida and the microbial kinetize (Quikompost) was carried out in order to compare their efficacies in waste management. The quantity of leaf litter composted and the biomass (earthworm/microbial) recovered after composting were increased with increasing the quantity of earthworm/microbial kinetizer.
The nitrogen enriched phosphocompost was prepared utilizing the abundantly available green biomass of Lantana camara and supplemented with 12.5 and 25.0 per cent levels of rock phosphate, 1.0% fertilizer nitrogen (urea), 5.0 and 10.0 per cent pyrite or by inoculation with Azotobacter chroococcum and Aspergillus awamori. The compost mix-up was …
R. Vimal Kumar Proposed unit will be equipped to handle five tonnes of non-segregated waste a day File Photo: M. Balaji NEW EFFORT: Garbage in Tirupur is to be disposed of at the compost yard to be established by the Department of Agriculture.
Pune In a move that would provide some respite to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the state Forest Department has agreed to give out forest land for dumping organic waste and using it for vermicomposting. The PMC, which is grappling with garbage dumping problem at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, has …
