In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest. Thousands of people have rushed to the peak since then, and it is beginning to take its toll. Everest is now so congested and littered that it has been dubbed the “world’sContinue Reading
A new study has found that Garbage dumps are resulting in a shift in food habits of birds and wild animals. The study examined the relationship between animal type and behavior vis-à-vis the risk of plastic ingestion. The plastic waste which is known to cause health complications and disruptive reproductiveContinue Reading
In Trichy the daily commercial and domestic waste being transported to the city corporation’s Aryamangalam dump yard has got reduced by an average of 90%. This was made possible with the help of the Micro Compost Centres (MCC) established at 27 locations across the city. Besides the MCCs, a decentralisedContinue Reading
Essel Infraprojects Ltd (EIL) will construct Maharashtra’s first Waste to Energy (WtE) plant with a capacity of 800 tonnes of waste. This will be EIL’s first in the state fter implementing similar WtEs in Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Ranchi and Amritsar, and the Nagpur project is scheduled to be operational withinContinue Reading
Over 377 million urban people generate 60 million tonnes of municipal solid waste per annum in India. Adding to the woe is the explosion of technology devices, which have resulted the recent spike in the pile of solid waste. Municipal authorities that provide solid waste management services are largely foundContinue Reading
The process of setting up Indian Railways’ long-awaited and ambitious “waste-to-energy plant” in Jaipur and then at the New Delhi station began two years back and the successful bidder has brought in the required machinery and technology, the procurement process is yet to be GST-compliant, causing the delay. While theContinue Reading
Scientists from IIT Madras have developed a solar powered system to convert non-recyclable plastic into fuel that can substitute diesel used in generators, furnaces and engines. The technology – which consists of a mobile unit that can collect and process waste – currently yields around 0.7 litres of fuel oilContinue Reading
Before you dump garbage or any kind of waste on the road next time, think again. In Trichy, the urban local body (ULB) on Wednesday launched an exclusive vehicle named “mobile spot fine vehicle” with an officer on board to levy penalties for more than 12 offences violating Solid WasteContinue Reading
