The disposal of chrome-sludge continues to pose an environmental challenge. A tripartite collaboration between the Central Leather Research Institute in Madras, Regional Research Laboratory in

Indian scientists have devised a coal fired kiln for potters, which is expected to revive the pottery sector groaning under the high cost of firewood.

Brick kilns in India must form cooperatives to implement new technology and thus save themselves from the onslaught of rising prices of input material and also the environment.

Solan: With the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) directing induction furnaces and steel units to get their non-hazardous slag treated through the Shiwalik Hazardous Waste Plant, investors resent that the board had made it compulsory to get this waste treated from the hazardous plant which was contrary to the laid guidelines.

Conversely, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had laid dow

Biomass plants: Low tariff, no permission to sell power to other states worry entrepreneurs

Biomass these days is the new buzzword for Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, who dreams to generate 1,000 MW of power from renewable sources of energy in the next two years.

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West Bengal kilns asked to shut down to save mangoes