Tesco is charging ahead with its plans to slap a carbon label on all of its private label products to denote the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it takes to produce each item.

Co plans to increase production of recycled paper.

With a production capacity of over 160,000 tonnes of recycled paperboards a year, the mills of ITC Ltd at Kovai and Bhadrachalam have helped the company attain the distinction of being negative solid waste, said Mr R. Srinivasan, Member-Corporate Management Committee.

Corporates Too Join Hunt For Plastic Alternatives

New Delhi: Where there

NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the harmful impact of plastics on the environment, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said effective waste management of plastics was the need of the hour.

Staff Reporter

A club where dancers generate power to light the floor, drinks come in recyclable cups and toilets flush with rain water opened in the Netherlands on Thursday, hoping to lure environmentally conscious clubbers.

Rotterdam's WATT, which is designed to save about 30 percent on energy and carbon emissions and 50 percent on water and waste compared to other nightclubs, has included sustainable elements into everything from its architecture to its cafe menus.

BY AMITA VERMA
LUCKNOW

The fragrance of flowers offered to deities at shrines will now linger on, long after the flowers have wilted away.

The Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) in Lucknow has launched a new project called

How much waste does your school recycle? How much energy does your school consume? What is the percentage of green area in your school? How eco-friendly are the vehicles in your school?

Waste-pickers worldwide gathered in Colombia to highlight how central they are to urban existence Sometime in 2007, history was unmade and made. From being a global village, the world became an urban conglomerate

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