Keerthi sureshbabu's Blog – August 2011 Archive (5)

Government of India will soon implement for e-waste management, they are planning to send a notice to all electronic manufacturing companies to collect the e-waste by putting up collection centre in certain places and reuse the waste product. The manufacturing companies should collect and reuse the product. E-waste includes computers, laptops, TV, refrigerator, washing machine, mixer and grinder, music systems etc. this would be the best E-waste management step taken by the government. should… Continue

Nowadays in opting appartments people opt for higher floor.. the cost of apparments also increases as the floor number increases. The construction companies have started building above 20floors with gated community. they say the higher the floor pollution free, but my point of view is higher the floor also the suspended particulate matters move upwards and take time to settle back to downward. my option of selection of floor would be below 3 and not above it. some opt for higher floor saying…

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According to this, the molten plastic would be mixed with heated blue metal pieces and then mixed with bitumen. The molten plastic would form a thin layer over the metal binding the road strongly. This reduces the use of bitumen.

Global anti-incinerator alliance says, when roads degrade, the plastic which is non biodegradable will permeate the soil and pollute the ground water.

But this method is not been adopted anywhere. Will this be a good idea of disposing plastics?

Molten… Continue

CETP was promoted by MoEF in 1984 to treat wastewater from small and medium scale industries sector (SMIs). First CETP was constructed in1985 in Jeedimelta near Hyderabad. CETP was followed by other states in TN, MP, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.

A bulk environmental pollution is caused by SMIs. Small scale industries policy has no thought for environmental planning. For the effluent from SSIs the concept of CETP was introduced. The MoEF has instructed the SPCB to establish CETPs in…

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• Recharges and formation of new aquifers because of increased incidents of floods

• Ground water with draw/during summer may decrease, however, during the winters; the demand of ground water will increase

• More surface water reservoirs will be required to harness flood waters and will lead to more recharge over longer period.

• Erosion activity will be more

• Evapo-transpiration losses shall be more especially in area where ground water levels are shallow.

• High… Continue