Activated carbon is one of the most effective media for removing a wide range of contaminants from industrial and municipal waste waters, landfill leachate and contaminated ground. As the world’s most powerful adsorbent, it can cope with a wide range of contaminants.Different contaminants may be present in the same discharge and carbon may be used [...]
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 School [...]
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 are [...]
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 by [...]
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 [...]
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 and [...]
Mrudula Saptarshi of Mumbai, “vermigoldinternational.com” was a crusader for separation of garbage at the household level. Segregation into wet/organic (kitchen) and dry/synthetic waste (plastic, glass, paper, metal). She began with vermiculture (using earthworms to convert garbage to compost) in her kitchen garden. She is now a consultant to many organisations.
Vermigold International, her company, is a [...]