Industry

Plug and profit

Green is in as Indian corporates race to compete for a share of the fast-growing Rs 35,250-crore global market for climate-friendly technology and carbon credits

Publication Date: 
15/06/2009
Malini Bhupta
India Today (New Delhi)
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Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Biofuel, Automobiles, Waste Management, Energy, Mahindra & Mahindra, WIPRO, Tata BP Solar India, India, Bangalore (T)
Environment

The dreaded latitudes

Ocean currents work magic when they help ships navigate from one place to the other or bring rain. However, together with the Horse latitudes, they also have created a new continent as big as Africa and still expanding, which may never support life because it is plain garbage, dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Mukta Rohra
Planet Earth
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Environment, Marine Life, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Garbage, Plastics, Waste Disposal, DDT, PCBs, Waste Management, Toxins, Marine Pollution
Energy

Turning a liability into an asset: the importance of policy in fostering landfill gas use worldwide

The purpose of this document is to identify and examine global policies, measures, and incentives that appear to be stimulating landfill gas (LFG) use.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
International Energy Agency
Tags:
Green House Gases, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Landfill Gas, Waste Management, Energy, Global
Energy

Venture Capitalist Sees Waste As Feedstock For Energy

Don't use the word "waste" around venture capitalist Bill Green. The managing director with Silicon Valley-based VantagePoint Venture Partners, which has invested in two companies that use discarded materials to produce energy, prefers to think of the stuff we throw away as the next generation of energy feedstocks.

Publication Date: 
22/05/2008
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Waste Management, Energy

Government will preserve environmental heritage - President

Publication Date: 
25/03/2008
Daily News
Tags:
Environment, Garbage, Waste Management

Biggest waste management project begins today

Publication Date: 
24/03/2008
Daily News
Tags:
Solid Waste, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Waste Management

CEA plans to eradicate garbage crisis by 2012

The Central Environment Authority (CEA) is to take the initiative to solve the garbage problem completely by the year 2012 by providing necessary assistance to local authorities countrywide.

Publication Date: 
19/03/2008
Daily Mirror
Tags:
Solid Waste, Garbage, Waste Management, Srikakulam (D)
Solid Waste

Informing efficient and effective solid waste management to improve local environmental quality and public health

This paper employ the choice experiment method to estimate residents

Publication Date: 
01/02/2008
Sukanya Das, Ekin Birol, Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
University of Cambridge
Tags:
Environment, Health Effects, Solid Waste, Waste Management, India, West Bengal, Pollution
Industry

 Creating another deluge?

The Concerned Citizen's Commission, a coalition of citizens groups, has submitted its enquiry report on the Mumbai deluge of July 26, 2005. The report holds poor drainage, sanitation and waste management system to be primarily responsible for the floods. But the Maharashtra government is yet to pay heed to the report. Rather, it is busy de-silting river Mithi, a task inaugurated a few weeks ago.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2006
Down to Earth
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Land Encroachments, Drainage, Sanitation, Waste Management, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Mithi
Environment

 Clean manufacturing, cleaner environment

Waste abatement measures can go a long way in controlling pollution and increasing efficiency, prove several surveys. Access to right technology is needed.

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Waste Management, UNIDO

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