August 2011 Blog Posts (12)

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

Krishnaa Human Initiatives, a Citizen Sector Organization, registered under The West Bengal Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961 and enlisted with the NGO Partnership System of Planning Commission, Government of India, launched an online monthly English Newsletter on CLIMATE CHANGE issues at:

 

CLIMATE I CARE : Let's Stop The Change…

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Roving in monsoon especially over the mountains of Kumaon isn’t such a good idea, but when your employers do not give you break, when you are so wrecked up in head that you have dreams of nature calling you, there is no choice. So what the heck, we started, we boarded Sampark Kranti Express from Old Delhi Railway Station to Haldwani.



Next day we stated from Haldwani. Our original plan was to reach Bageshwar and visit Baijnath temple. But we got delayed as we were pretty tired from… Continue

Since the start of the first Blog or discussion on the Indian environment Network, perhaps 90% of the blogs or discussion has highlighted the issue of malfunctioning or doubtful decisions or alike issues which ultimately indicates the level of corruption in the system of our Nation  engaged in Environmental field. I can surely state that almost 99% of professional in the field have faced such issues either due to corrupted system or egoistic nature of official/authorities. Even after facing…

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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?

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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

Krishnaa Human Initiatives is a Citizen Sector Organization Registered Under The West Bengal Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961 And enlisted with  the NGO Partnership System of Planning Commission, Government of India. 

The organization launched Career Upliftment Program for Academics (CUPA). The PROGRAM is available online at the following link:

 

Career…

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Can anybody tell me about the guidelines of environmental audit? This is question that is asked in Environmental science net paper.

As most of us are aware MoEF release a draft notification (classification, packing and labelling of hazardous substance) on July 8th for publc for comments.

http://moef.nic.in/downloads/rules-and-regulations/SO523_E_new.pdf 

 

I read the draft notification. I request to clarify the following

1.…

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