Mumbai's solid waste management plans expensive, dangerous

How green is your building?

The building's green credentials have been recognised internationally, most notably by the us Green Business Council (usgbc). The Washington-…

US EPA takes up cell phone recycling campaign

Toxic ignorance: Most Indian cities way off segregating domestic hazardous waste

In absence of robust framework and infrastructure, segregation of domestic hazardous waste remains a distant dream for most Indian cities

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Rising popularity of artificial vanilla puts Kerala farmers in distress

Vanilla is said to be the world's most popular flavour. As much as 40 per cent of the world's ice cream is vanilla flavoured. Its sweet, mildly …

Conclave on compressed biogas underlines future energy potential

The conference, organised by IOCL, was aimed at attracting entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu to invest in the technology  

New reactor powered by sun can convert plastic, CO2 into fuel

Cambridge researchers find way to turn PET plastic bottles and carbon dioxide into sustainable fuels like CO, syngas or formate

MoEFCC revises fly ash notification

Fly ash to be given free of cost for agricultural and construction purposes says MoEFCC official at CSE conference

Urban shit: where does it all go?

India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism

Science & Technology - Briefs

Waste smart cities

A survey by the Centre for Science and Environment shows how Indian cities are turning over a new leaf in solid waste management

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …

COVID-19: Revised guidelines show how biomedical waste must be handled

Extra precautions to be taken by sanitation workers, healthcare facilities and COVID-19 isolation wards are also described