Team L&M The children of Dhobni village in Maoist-hit Rajanandgaon district in Chhattisgarh have once again shown that they are the best harbingers of any change that wish to see in society. They have made their village free of open defecation by acting as conscious and cautious citizens personally requesting every single person whom they […]Read More
Team L&M Singapore-headquartered waste management solutions provider, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte Ltd (Blue Planet) has announced strategic acquisition of a UK-based green building product manufacturing company, Virtus Concrete Solutions Ltd. (“Virtus Concrete”). Virtus Concrete’s key offering are sustainable concrete blocks called Blockwalls, manufactured from 87 per cent recycled materials comprising mainly low-value inert waste […]Read More
Team L&M The National Capital Region of Delhi has the highest annual carbon footprint in the country. The Capital city’s annual CO2 emission is 69.4 million tonnes. As per the Central Pollution Control Board data (2018) areas surrounding the Tuglaqabad Biodiversity Park like Shadipur, Gurugram, Mundka, Wazirpur, Anand Vihar, Okhla, Bawana and Mathura Road were […]Read More
Team L&M We are all aware of the air quality in Delhi being the worst of any major city in the world, according to a WHO survey of 1,600 world cities. In October 2018, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences published a research paper that attributed around 41% of PM2.5 air pollution in Delhi to […]Read More
Team L&M Do you love perfumes? Who doesn’t? All of us do. But before you indulge in these luxuries, be careful. Those of you who are in the science stream would know that all these are chemical compounds and impact the environment in some way or the other. A study, published in journal Science of […]Read More
Team L&M To propose sustainable solution for effective waste disposal and recovery of resources and to manage and process large quantity of waste in the National Capital, an aerobic composter, a bio-methanation plant and an effluent treatment plant was recently started by the South Delhi civic body in Punjabi Bagh. Yasasu EMS, a product line […]Read More
Team L&M All you bird enthusiasts out there, it is time you packed your bags for the day and headed to Dhanauri Wetland in Greater Noida for the Bird Festival being celebrated to mark the World Wetlands Day tomorrow. Dhanauri in district Gautam Budh Nagar, around 45 km from Noida and 8 km from the […]Read More
Team L&M With the Festival of Lights just a week away, the scientists at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have developed less polluting firecrackers which are not only environment-friendly but 15-20% cheaper than the conventional ones. Named Safe Water Releaser (SWAS), Safe Minimal Aluminium (SAFAL) and Safe Thermite Cracker (STAR), these were introduced […]Read More
The first Indian woman to scale Mt Everest Bachendri Pal will lead the month-long rafting expedition of a 40-member team. The expedition will start from Haridwar on October 5, traversing a distance of around 1,500 km encompassing eight major towns including Bijnor, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Buxar. It will conclude in Patna, Bihar on […]Read More
Team L&M Imagine the PET bottle you took a sip from to gulp down your favourite soft drink and threw into the garbage bin coming back to you in the form that you can wear. In times when there has been a never-ending hue and cry about the need to cut down on the use […]Read More