Biomedical waste is generated from hospitals and animal houses and mainly consists of: • Human Anatomical Waste. • Microbiology & Biotechnology Waste. • Discarded Medicines & Cytotoxic Drugs. • Soiled plaster castes, blood More...

AHMEDABAD: At least 10 per cent of the municipal waste generated in Ahmedabad every day, is plastic. The city generates around 2,600 tonnes of waste daily. A study conducted in August last year revealed that over 10 per cent of this was plastic was More...

AHMEDABAD: In the next three months, a small army of workers in uniforms will be spending the nights cleaning Ahmedabad's streets. But before you witness this 'Surat phenomenon', the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is trying to solve the proble More...

A majority of companies across industries in India are small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and these account for a huge segment of the country’s economy. According to a report by the Government of India, around three million SMEs are currently More...

For years, power and coal companies have been freely dumping toxic coal ash into unlined landfills and unsafe ponds. Coal ash is hazardous waste from coal-fired power plants filled with dangerously high levels of arsenic, selenium, mercury and other More...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued a news release announcing that it is asking the Missouri Attorney General’s office to pursue civil penalties against a Battlefield couple for violating Missouri’s Hazardous Waste Managem More...