Industry

 Treating waste

Participants at a recently held workshop stressed the need for proper treatment of hospital wastes

Publication Date: 
14/11/1999
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Hospital Waste, Waste Disposal, Waste Incineration, Waste Treatment, Government Of India (GOI), Delhi
Environment

 Treating distillery wastes

Scientists at the Nimbkar Agri

Publication Date: 
29/09/1999
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Solar Energy, Waste Conversion, Waste Treatment, Environmental Science, Maharashtra
India

 Nothing goes waste

The biological method of hospital waste management, which helps reclaim degraded land and cultivate medicinal plants, may be the best alternative to incineration

Publication Date: 
14/08/1999
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Land Degradation, Hospital Waste, Waste Incineration, Waste Treatment, Medicinal Plants, India
India

 enter -The green rating project

Indian industry is huge. But most environmentalists believe it has done little to reduce pollution, which will only rise as the economy grows. The Centre for Science and Environment has launched a Green Rating Project to assess the industry’s environmenta

Publication Date: 
30/07/1999
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Pollution, Forest-Based Industry, Waste Treatment, Technology, Public Participation, Governance, NGO, CSE, India, Sustainable Development
Water Pollution

 Dirty states

Only five states generate more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater in India as they lack treatment facilities, says a recent study

Publication Date: 
14/07/1999
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Water Pollution, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
India

 Drained

population explosion and technological progress has been accompanied, among other things, by an increase in waste generation and pollution. But, in India, the efforts to find a sustainable way of

Publication Date: 
14/03/1999
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Pollution Control, Waste Treatment, India
India

 MONEYMAKERS

KILLING ARTHRITIS: Celebrex, a new type of painkiller for arthritis patients, has been approved by the US government. Celebrex is the first new class of painkillers called "cox-2inhibitors" that

Publication Date: 
14/02/1999
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Waste Treatment, Technical Cooperation, Austria, Orissa (Odisha)
Mining

 No Garbage

A writ petition has been filed in the Andhr* Pradesh High Court challenging the establishment of the garbage storage, treatment and disposal plant at Dindigal in Hyderabad. The

Publication Date: 
30/12/1998
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Garbage, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Andhra Pradesh
India

 All that rot

India s waste problem is serious, says expert

Publication Date: 
30/07/1998
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Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Appropriate Technology, India
India

 Clean up act

the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) has published a study on management of municipal solid waste. The two year study was based on field surveys carried out in different towns and cities

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
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Waste Treatment, India

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