Biotech, a Thiruvananthapuram-based institution, which is engaged in bio-waste management and non-conventional energy generation programmes, has acquired an innovative technology for generating diesel from plastic waste.

The technology developed in Austria is being promoted in India by the TVS Group.

NEW DELHI: To address the issue of solid waste disposal in the least polluting fashion, the Delhi Cabinet has approved setting up of bio-gas production facilities that would use bio-degradable waste through the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-developed Nisargruna technology.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued a show-cause notice to Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) in connection with environmental pollution on the Assagao Plateau and its vicinity.
The Assagao Communidade and residents in the locality had objected to the dumping and burning of garbage by MMC on Assagao hill.
Acting on this, the GSPCB had directed MMC to immediately stop dumping of

The poultry industry in Haryana is set for a major makeover. A US-based company is setting up a Rs 65-crore project in Barwala, which is home to one of the largest poultry belts in the country, to generate power using hen droppings.

Where generating power from hen litter is concerned, Haryana is certainly going international.