The meat processing industry is entering uncharted waters as governments worldwide introduce carbon pricing regimes and expand community awareness about which industries are posing environmental challenges in terms of air and water purity. Meat processing - including cattle, sheep, pig and poultry plants will attract attention as we move further into the current decade, both in terms of its energy use to produce steam and hot water, for example, and for quality of its wastewater and its emissions to air.

KOCHI: Ernakulam District Panchayat vice-president Bindu George presented a Rs 50-crore surplus budget for 2012-13 to the 26-member council on Thursday.

The budget envisages a total income of Rs 920 crore and an expenditure of Rs 870 crore.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red.

Residents welcome plan to set-up power generation unit

The State Government's plan to set-up a power generation unit using the waste generated in the corporation has brought jubilation among the residents of Ramaiyanpatti, who have staged several rounds of protests against the dumping of garbage in the vast yard close to this hamlet.

Report is aimed at helping the State government know its overall position

Energy and power-related sources account for over 75 per cent of the emissions in Tamil Nadu and it is imperative for the State to adopt an overall renewable energy strategy to reduce the carbon intensity of power generation and lower its overall emission footprint, states a report on Tamil Nadu's carbon footprint.

In what may turn out to be a boon for developing countries, scientists claim to have created a device which can generate electricity from waste water.

This study presents biogas production from fruit wastes at ambient temperature using anaerobic batch digester (500 ml). Co-digestion of fruit wastes were carried out with rice bran and cow dung. Biogas production from different samples was as follows: Sample A (fruit waste), 363; sample B (fruit waste, 75% + cow dung, 25%), 405; sample C (fruit waste, 75% + rice bran, 25%), 315; and sample D (fruit waste, 50% + rice bran, 25% + cow dung, 25%), 381 ml. From chromatographic studies, sample B has maximum methane content (80%) and sample C has maximum carbon-di-oxide content (50%).

Clean energy, with double-digit growth rates and competition spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas, has been a dynamic and forward-looking industry for more than a decade. This report is the 11th annual edition in Clean Edge's Clean Energy Trends report series.

SHILLONG: The State Government has decided to seek additional fund from the Centre to integrate waste to energy project in the sanitary landfill site at Marten, Mawiong.

“If the proposal of the State Government is approved, the State, which is going through a severe power crisis, can benefit a lot since the integration project would help in generating at least 4 megawatts of power,” Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh told The Shillong Times here on Friday.

Having signed an MoU with the Delhi Government for setting up India’s first Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant to convert waste into CNG, Sweden is likely to sign similar agreements with two more cities

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