Human hair export is a Rs 200 crore business in India today. Of this, Gupta Enterprises, Chennai alone accounts for Rs 44 crore a year. “Hair that’s thrown out is waste, hair that is collected is money,” says Gupta.The waste hair is converted into wigs and toupees Gupta’s father started off in the late 1960s [...]
To create eco-awareness among students, Siruthuli, an organisation that works for the revival of water bodies in Coimbatore and promoting a clean city, has formed Siruthuli Eco Forum in 24 schools in the city of Coimbatore. The students of National Model School in Peelamedu, G.R. Damodaran School on Avanashi Road and Elgi Matriculation Higher Secondary [...]
Poonam Kasturi calls herself Compost Wali. On a unique mission, she wants ordinary Indians to feel empowered, make a ‘clean’ difference to the society, by converting waste into useful compost in a simple and cost effective manner. Her organic business venture Daily Dump offers different types of composters that convert the waste generated in one’s [...]
Status of Pollution Control in Tanneries of Uttar Pradesh The U.P. Pollution Control Board has identified 469 tannery industries in the state out of which 404 tanneries are treated in Kanpur. Details of effluent treatment system in 404 tanneries installed at Kanpur is as follows: Based on vegetable tanning system - 198 I. Primary effluent [...]
Retired Mumbai industrialist R.T. Doshi uses the organic waste from his kitchen as soil and harvests about 5 kg of vegetables and fruits every day, enough for his family of 10. The science he uses is very simple. The top and bottom of a drum are cut off, then 12 holes of 8-10 cm diameter [...]
Pune’s doctor couple Nirmala and Hamir Ganla are safely recycling the waste generated from their 12-bed maternity home.They used the aerobic process to convert all bio-medical waste from their hospital–sanitary napkins, placentae, blood-soaked dressings–into manure which was as benign as ordinary soil and no pathogens were detected. Experimenting for safety, samples of treated hospital waste [...]
New Delhi’s Jitendra Pareek invested Rs 3 lakh to set up Eco Vision Industries, which uses over 26 tonnes of fly ash a day to produce fly ash bricks.The daily turnover was reported as 25000 Rs. Although expensive than baked clay bricks, flyash bricks have greater strength and thermal insulation, and afford considerable savings in [...]