21 companies get waste recycling permit
As a part of the Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) initiative to make the city garbage-free and reduce the amount of... Read More
Tirupur Towards replicating a Green Town concept
Known as the Textile city and located in the Coimbatore district, Tirupur is one of the most important industrial centers... Read More
Need For Long Term Goals
Starting with making and marketing of simple household projects way back in the 70s, Chennai based Surfactants & Allied Chemicals... Read More
Dyeing units of Tirupur: Solution for Sludge?
It is a festivity of colours each day here, as colourful streams of water gush down the drains and fall into a huge pool of muck and fluid. This concoction of colour and grime is churned at high speed to split clean the slime from the water. Less than 50km off the textile city of Coimbatore, the hosiery hub of India, Tirupur, houses 6,250 factories that spin out garments in pleasing hues for the export market. Unlike other dyeing centres in the country, environment-conscious Tirupur has its waste treated within each unit, with no toxic waste escaping into the storm water drains anywhere in the city. How do they manage this? Mohana goes inspecting.
Chennai’s Cleaning Challenges
Though uncontrolled urbanisation in Chennai has placed a heavy stress on solid waste management, studies reveal that the City is among the few urban local bodies in the country which have prepared long term plans for effective solid waste management. Shobha Menon reports.
