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Recycling Paper from Paper Waste
Today everywhere we look we see one thing: paper. From our writing table to notebooks, posters and notebooks to cardboard boxes and magazines, paper has become part of our everyday lives. Paper is made from trees, and every single part of the...
Caffeine from Tea waste
For centuries, tea and coffee have been most popular beverages. This is not because primarily they are easily available but they contain the stimulant caffeine which stimulates respiration, the heart, and the Central Nervous System (CNS) of...
Cow Dung: A Composted fertilizer
India is primarily an agricultural country. Agriculture contributes the major part to the GDP of India. Apart from the grains, agriculture also produces large quantity of waste that is being utilized in many useful products. Some of the efficient...
Rubber Powder from Waste Tyres: An Approach to Tyre Recycling
Since the wheel got invented, it has been redesigned and recreated according to convenience of humans. Today, we can see there is a heavy load of traffic on roads. This load is more in the case of urban areas as compared to rural areas due to...
Recycling of Lead-Acid Batteries
Lead-acid batteries which are primarily used to generate electricity are made up of a series of identical cells. In each of the identical cells there is a set of positive and negative plates which are called electrodes. Lead–acid batteries...
Ethanol from Cellulose Waste
Waste can be defined as rubbish, trash, refuse, garbage, junk, litter, and ort which are unwanted or useless materials for us. If we talk about the biological definition of waste then we can say that wastes are unwanted substances,...
Bricks from Fly Ash
With rapid growth of industrialization in the last few decades the whole world is facing the problem of environmental pollution. Continuous emissions from industries and anthropogenic practices have hampered the environment substantially, and...
Biocoal from Vegetable waste
Energy is the basic need/pre-requisite for the economic development of any nation. According to different uses from the time of early man till now energy is being utilised time to time in different sectors in different forms. If we talk about...
Use of Plastic Wastes in the Construction of Roads
Bitumen is a useful binder for road construction and elastomers like natural rubber, crumb rubber, SBR, etc. as well as plastomeric substances like Polyethylene, Ethylene Vinyl Acetate and Ethylene Butyl Acrylates are mixed with bitumen to modify...
Waste Utilisation in Tanneries
Clean Process technologies and waste utilization in tanneries
It is being increasingly recognized that end of pipe solutions are not the ultimate strategy for waste management. Economic instruments have a major role to play. These also include...
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