Waste Treatment

Water Pollution

Leachate polluting Ourem Creek

PANJIM, SEPT 9

Publication Date:

10/09/2008

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Marine Pollution, Waste Treatment, Goa

Science And Technology

Coir geotextile-packed conduits for the removal of biodegradable matter from wastewater

Majority of residential units and small-scale commercial operators in India dispose wastewater either onsite or into the public drainage systems, without paying any attention to the public health and environmental impacts. Need for high investments and the requirement for large operational space are the reasons often quoted against the installation of a proper wastewater treatment unit. This communication presents a viable and cost-effective technology using coir geotextile, for the
removal of organic matter from wastewater. Coir geotextile

Publication Date:

10/09/2008

Author(s): A. Praveen, P. B. Sreelakshmy, M. Gopan

Source: Current Science

Vol:

95

Issue:

5

pp:

655

Tags:

Sewage Treatment Technology, Waste Treatment, India

Fisheries

Lagoons of deadly fishes

It was 3:00pm on Monday. A man and a woman were busy catching fish in a lagoon of the waste treatment plant in Pagla of Narayanganj. The lagoon was just next to another lagoon where poison was applied on August 30 to kill the fish in it as they were contaminated with heavy metals.

Noticing The Daily Star correspondent the two packed up their gear and started to flee with a bag half full of fish. They took the fish to their home half a kilometre away.

"I am not a fisherman

Publication Date:

06/09/2008

Source: Daily Star (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Fish, Waste Treatment, Bangladesh

Science And Technology

Application of microwave energy on the stabilization of copper containing industrial sludge

Because of the high concentration of heavy metals in the sediment sludge produced from industrial wastewater treatment, direct disposal of this sludge in landfill sites will cause serious soil and groundwater pollution.

Publication Date:

01/09/2008

Author(s): Kuan Wen Hui, Chen Ching Lung, Lo Shang Lien

Source: Research Journal of Chemistry And Environment

Vol:

12

Issue:

3

pp:

77

Tags:

Copper, Heavy Metals, Industrial Waste Treatment, Landfill, Waste Treatment, Science And Technology, Taiwan

Science And Technology

Removal of azo dyes from aqueous solution by coagulation/flocculation with strong polycations

The interactions of methyl orange and two benzidine type azo dyes, Congo Red and Direct Blue 1, with some strong polycations with variable charge densities, having cationic centers in the side chain, were investigated.

Publication Date:

01/09/2008

Author(s): Ecaterina Stela Dragan, Ionel Adrian Dinu

Source: Research Journal of Chemistry And Environment

Vol:

12

Issue:

2

pp:

5

Tags:

Textile Industry, Industrial Waste Treatment, Waste Treatment, Science And Technology

Solid Waste

Sonsodo: It's the same sad story

How many times can one repeat a mistake?Many years ago, a company called Komex said it could treat Margao's garbage in an

Publication Date:

28/08/2008

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

Garbage, Waste Conversion, Waste Treatment, Composting, Goa

Energy

Margao to get Renewable Energy Park, says CM

PANJIM, AUG 20 -- A modern Renewable Energy Park will be established in Margao under Goa Energy Development Agency (GEDA) disclosed Chief Minister Digambar Kamat at a function held to commemorate Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas at Goa Science Centre, Miramar today.
The function coincided with the birth anniversary celebration of former Prime Minister of India late Rajiv Gandhi and was organized by Goa Energy Development Agency in association with Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India.

Publication Date:

21/08/2008

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Waste Treatment, Goa

Solid Waste

Centralised waste processing mooted

THRISSUR: Instead of decentralised arrangements for the treatment and processing of waste by Local Self-help Groups in each district, a centralised processing arrangement for a few districts or for each district was mooted by Thrissur District Collector V K Baby.

He presented the idea at the meeting of Thrissur Mayor, Chairmen and Secretaries of municipalities and concerned officials held at the Collectorate here the other day.

The participants welcomed the idea. The Collector said that the preliminary sorting of the waste should be done at the generating points.

Publication Date:

19/08/2008

Source: New Indian Express (Kochi)

Tags:

Waste Disposal, Waste Processing, Waste Treatment, Kerala, Thrissur (D)

Solid Waste

Civic body lays plastic-fortified road in Dadar

Mumbai, August 9 Finding an ecological solution to reuse polythene and plastic waste, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation laid a 100-metre stretch of road at Dadar using plastic and asphalt. This stretch on Prof V S Agashe Road near the Kohinoor Technical Institute in Dadarwas laid by the civic body's Road department with the help of the Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE) . The BMC will test its sustainability for a year and then decide whether to lay an entire stretch of road using waste plastic.

Publication Date:

11/08/2008

Source: Indian Express (Mumbai)

Tags:

Roads, Plastics, Waste Treatment, Maharashtra, Mumbai

Solid Waste