Tag: Waste
India’s medical waste growing at 7% annually: ASSOCHAM-Velocity study
Inadequate waste management can cause environmental pollution, growth and multiplication of vectors, leading to the transmission of diseases like typhoid, cholera, hepatitis and AIDS through injuries from syringes and needles..............
Innovative indigenous solution to biomedical waste menace
The New Delhi based S S Medical Systems in association with Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, has come up with a unique product, OptiMaser which is an advanced microwave based disinfection system...........
More than 500 tonnes of biomedical waste generated in India per...
While the Central Pollution Control Board's 2015 report shows that 1,69,913 healthcare facilities generated approximately 495.30 tonnes of biomedical waste each day, the figure in 2016-17......Read More
India gets its first cellulosic alcohol technology demonstration plant
Demonstration plant is based on indigenous technology converting Ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass....