7 Billion and Growing A Billion Too Many

7 Billion and Growing One morning I was sitting in my verandah sipping a cup...

Water Quality Water Quality and Health Issues

Safe drinking water is a necessity for people in both the rural and urban India....

gir pro 168 The Last Refuge – A story of the Asiatic Lions at the Gir Forest

It was a hot sweltering summer of May when we reached the Gir National Park to film...

The Dilemma of Extinction The Dilemma of extinction

Biological extinction has been a natural phenomena in geological history but the...

Elephant Herd at Corbett - Dr. Yashpal Singh Gajraj

The Elephant is an integral part of India’s culture. Mythology and history are...

BioHazard Disposal of Biomedical Waste

Option Treatment & Disposal   Waste Category Cat. No. 1 Incineration /deep burial Human...

Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998

With a view to control the indiscriminate disposal of hospital waste/bio medical...

Industrial Usage of Water The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977

The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 A Summary by Dr. Yashpal...

Air Pollution is affecting Lives The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981

The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 A Summary by Dr. Yashpal...

csr_globe Corporate Social Responsibility-Towards a sustainable India

The business sector has been extremely successful in generating wealth and value...

Vermicomposting

Mrudula Saptarshi of Mumbai, “vermigoldinternational.com”  was a crusader...

Wealth from Kitchen Waste

Poonam Kasturi calls herself Compost Wali. On a unique mission, she wants ordinary...

Material Exchange

Success stories-Material exchange At a small coastal Industrial zone Kalundborg near...

Generating Power by Waste Management in US

Waste Management Inc. in 2009 broke ground on a $10 million plant in McMinnville...

Kalmanthai slum

In urban slum areas without proper waste disposal and rubbish collection systems...

plastic_road Use of Plastic Wastes in the Construction of Roads

Bitumen is a useful binder for road construction and elastomers like natural rubber,...

UASB Technology UASB Technology for Waste Water Treatment

Domestic/municipal wastewater and many industrial effluents contain significant amounts...

Waste Management

What is waste management? There is more to waste management than collecting rubbish...

Landfill All About Landfills

Landfills are basically the specific areas or sites where waste materials and garbage...

balanced-view-hospital-wast Hospital Waste management Techniques – a Step By Step Guide for You

Hospital waste is very different from the ordinary waste that is produced in our...

MSW is 40% Paper Recycling Paper from Paper Waste

Today everywhere we look we see one thing: paper. From our writing table to notebooks,...

Tea Waste Caffeine from Tea waste

For centuries, tea and coffee have been most popular beverages. This is not because...

Cow Dung is an Excellent Fertiliser Cow Dung: A Composted fertilizer

India is primarily an agricultural country. Agriculture contributes the major part...

Waste Tyres Rubber Powder from Waste Tyres: An Approach to Tyre Recycling

Since the wheel got invented, it has been redesigned and recreated according to convenience...

Recycling of Lead Acid Batteries Recycling of Lead-Acid Batteries

Lead-acid batteries which are primarily used to generate electricity are made up...