On a trial basis at India Cement Limited at Sankar Nagar
TIRUNELVELI: For the first time in Tamil Nadu, using of finely shredded non-recyclable plastic waste along with the coal as supplement fuel in the cement factory on a trial basis was inaugurated in the manufacturing unit India Cement Limited (ICL) at Sankar Nagar near here on Sunday evening.
KOCHI: Plastic waste disposal will be smooth once the authorities concerned give their approval to use plastic waste for the construction of roads. As an initial step CREDAI Clean City Movement has tied up with the Kochi Corporation to construct roads using pellets processed from plastic waste generated at the Ravipuram shredding unit.
The demand for biofuels has recently increased because of rising prices of fossil fuels and diversification of energy resources. As a result, the demand for sugarcane and corn has been increasing, not only for food production, but also as sources of energy.
In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted those parts of the fruit's plant which are usually thrown away as waste into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values.
S. Annamalai
To evolve a process for use of waste plastic to lay roads
A Rs. 42 lakh project, to be undertaken between 2009, 2012
Cold process will be highly useful in laying roads in cold regions
India Gelatine and Chemicals Limited (IGCL), Vapi, Gujarat a public limited company produces food and pharma grade gelatine. The plant produces 30 tonne of obnoxious semi-solid proteinaceous sludge everyday which is threat to the environment.
It is time we began to live differently. But if you believe that governments and power and water utilities can bring about that change, you need to think again. The change has to begin with us. We have to be the change without governments telling us what to do. Without laws and regulations compelling us to change our ways.
