Vaccum cleaners from waste plastic
To make better use of the plastic garbage floating in the Pacific and other oceans in the world, Electrolux, an... Read More
Preventing infestation in dustbins
US based innovator Tim Deasy has developed a new solution – Fly Erase Pest Strip – to prevent dustbins from... Read More
Carpet that cleans indoor air
Desso, an international carpet manufacturer, has launched a next-generation new carpet – AirMaster – that cleans indoor air. The carpet,... Read More
Low carbon campaign for CWG
The Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 and the United Nations Development Programme have, announced the launch of the project on... Read More
Nilfisk acquires Cyclone Cleaning assets
Nilfisk-Advance has acquired all the assets of Tempe (Arizona) based Cyclone Surface Cleaning which provides sustainable contract cleaning services for... Read More
TMC buys RMCL road sweeper
The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation has recently bought a road-sweeping machine from Roots Multiclean Ltd (RMCL) through the Jawaharlal Nehru National... Read More
NMC’s cleanliness drive for monsoon
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) health department has decided to initiate action against street food vendors. NMC health officer (sanitation)... Read More
MCGM water recycling plans
Mumbai will soon have two recycling plants in the city. It is expected that these recycling plants will recycle 250... Read More
Cleaning Doctors
The doctors at KEM hospital in Mumbai took the brooms in a unique cleanliness drive to create awareness among patients... Read More
Travelling Loos!
A family in Colorado will never again have to worry about toilet breaks on the road after designing a twin-bowl... Read More
Robot Waste Collectorz
European scientists have developed a robot “DustCart” that can collect garbage from door to door. About the size of a... Read More
Climbing Walls
A UK based 13-year-old school boy Hibiki Kono does a spiderman with a vacuum cleaner. He climbs the walls with... Read More
Bacteria Killing Paper
To ward off harmful bacteria, scientists have created a new form of paper which could have wide ranging applications from... Read More
Winner in Cleanliness
The Parassala Government Hospital in Neyyattinkara in Kerala has won the State Pollution Control Board’s award for cleanliness and waste... Read More
Bacteria Toilets
Lakshwadeep Islands will be the first in India to use bacteria in toilets. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)... Read More
Now it’s Rajasthan
The Rajasthan Government has recently announced a complete ban on use of plastic carry-bags all over the state from August.... Read More
Let’s do it!
“Let’s do it, Delhi,” urged the Delhi’s Health and Family Welfare Ministry at a cleanli-ness drive in South Delhi. About... Read More
Low cost Toilets
The Kheda District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Limited (Amul Dairy) has launched a novel scheme for rural sanitation. The dairy... Read More
T1, T2, T3… Rising Challenges of Indian Cleaning Industry
About 150 cleaning machines, more than a 100 cleaning tools, gallons of cleaning agents, a dozen service providers, over 1500 cleaning workers… these and more are collectively engaged in maintaining the massive structure of the Terminal 3 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. In spite of the organisational difficulties like budgetary constraints, equipment limitations, manpower inadequacies and above all passenger indifference, the cleaning industry is gearing up to see that T3 could be kept as clean as it is today. An exclusive report by Mohana M.
Vapour degreasers in industrial cleaning
Many companies lay emphasis on cutting operating costs. There’s one potentially large source of savings through a small, fast and efficient vapour degreaser.
