At least 15-20% of the total cost for construction can also be saved by using STCM, he said. Bengaluru: A group of budding engineers from the city has developed a low-cost, environmentally-friendly and a sustainable way to mitigate the effect of earthquakes using tyre pieces and soil mixture, used as energy absorbents from earthquake and other …
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Just when you feel that you live in a big bad world full of people who are self-centred and manipulative along comes a story that restores our faith in humanity. In this case, a woman named Aarti Madhusudan from Chennai went out of her way to help a hardworking cab driver and father get a good …
Today, StoneSoup offers a range of products and services—sustainable alternatives that replace daily use products—composting kits, natural cleaners, cloth diapers and cloth bags. As leading citizen activists of waste management, the problem of Bengaluru’s growing mountains of garbage was well-documented by Malini Parmar and Smita Kulkarni. For years, the two have been key members of …
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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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Nasofilters pollution net is made using nano fibers which when put on windows protect particulate matter from entering inside the house. New Delhi: “Yesterday, out of curiosity, I took out a filter from my air purifier, to see the amount of dust it has gathered over a period of almost one month. The thick layer of …
