China and India, two of the world’s biggest polluters, are making it leafier – for now, a report says. The greening effect stems mainly from ambitious tree-planting in China and intensive farming in both countries.There are now more than 2 million sq miles of extra leaf area per year, compared with the early 2000s – …
For ensuring greater adoption of the biodegradable variant, manufacturers say a major policy push is needed from government to help make it more affordable. Mohammed Ashfaq, managing director of the Bengaluru-based Plastobag Industries, recalls the incident that spurred him to make biodegradable plastics. One day in 2011, when he entered his home, his 12-year-old daughter, …
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Scientists have developed environment-friendly bioplastics from microorganisms. scientists have developed biodegradable plastic from microorganisms that eat seaweed which produces zero toxic waste and can be recycled into organic waste. According to the United Nations, plastic accounts for up to 90 per cent of all the pollutants in our oceans, yet there are a few comparable, …
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To encourage people to dispose of menstrual waste in a scientific way, 29-year-old Anisha Nichani from Chennai is making sanitary napkin disposal bags from recycled newspapers Mumbai: 500 years – that is the average life span of one sanitary napkin and a single woman can generate up to 125 kilos of menstrual waste in her …
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Particulate pollution is so severe that it shortens the average Indian’s life expectancy by more than four years relative to what it would be if World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines were met. NEW DELHI: India is the world’s second most polluted country, slightly trailing only Nepal, the Energy Policy Institute at the University …
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