A us $108.8 million global fund has been raised to tackle environmental problems and nuclear waste in northwest Russia. At a recent conference in Brussels, the European Commission pledged us

Guarded optimism greets new biomedical waste treatment facility near Kanpur

Indian refinery ready to become a zero effluent discharge plant

Some two decades ago, a researcher had created a stir in the scientific community by patenting a microbe that could clean up toxic dumps. Now researchers at University of Massachusetts, USA, have

Recycling of discarded vehicles soon to be mandatory in Europe

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that are sustainable and equitable. So that every Indian can have access to sanitation and still have clean water t

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem and not the solution. Consider the huge amount of clean water that is used to carry a small quantity of human

with a ban on landfilling of combustible wastes, the Swedish municipalities are giving an impetus to biological processing of household waste. As a result, the capacity of such processing is

to ensure that Britain meets the targets laid by the European Commission(ec), the government has promised to

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