Ahmedabad : Your drive down Pirana, on city's outskirts, makes you feel dizzy because of noxious industrial gases and stench from garbage dumps and sewage treatment plants.

But now, you may say goodbye to your ordeal, thanks to a solid waste processing plant which is transforming municipal trash into pellets and fluffs to be used as fuel in industrial units.

Chromolaena odorata (Eupatorium odoratum), commonly known as Eupatorium, is an introduced weed which became a menace in plantations, forests, marginal lands and open areas in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka. The weed calls for effective control by applying suitable methods.

Syed Ali Ahmed
The Delhi government has decided to review an old project of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) relating to generation of power from garbage. The project was finalised when the Congress was in power in the MCD.

Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta said the department concerned would review the project and push the MCD to start generating electricity from garbage.

Sonali Chowdhury

: Waste, if efficiently treated, can be instrumental in helping the country meet its energy requirements and reducing greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions.

AHMEDABAD : She saw an innovative green idea' in trash bins full of discarded gutkha pouches and empty food packets. Sixteen-year-old Hetal Vaishnav has invented a new technology to help recycle multi-layered food packets which can be used in making furniture.

Preeti Parashar

Chandigarh: In a first of its kind initiative, Haryana has approved a 6 mw power plant to be set up in Barwala (district Panchkula), where power will be generated from poultry waste.

NEW DELHI: Delhi International Airport Limited, which is operating and developing Delhi airport, will soon generate electricity from solid waste.

With the growing demand of handmade paper both in the domestic and export markets, the Indian handmade paper industry has been confronting with the major issue of scarce availability and cost prohibitiveness of the cotton hosiery waste, the traditionally used principal raw material for making handmade paper.

This month, Edward Reilly, 35, finally let go of the television he had owned since his college days.

Although the Mitsubishi set was technologically outdated, it had sat for years in Mr. Reilly

The main challenge for Velankani was the disposal of waste kitchen material. The waste food in the kitchen was being discharged either in the water bodies or the landfills.

Energy from Waste: The biogas plant at Velankani Tech Park.Bio energy from kitchen waste

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