IIT-G team uses bacteria to clean toxic lead pollution | Guwahati News

Guwahati: Researchers from IIT Guwahati have found a green way to clean toxic lead by developing a biological process that uses naturally occurring bacteria to extract lead from acidic industrial wastewater. Beyond battery recycling facilities, the developed process can be utilised for treating wastewater from mining, smelting and metallurgical industries, IIT Guwahati said on Wednesday.The…

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Pachanady waste turns into fuel with 10,000 litres oil output | Mangaluru News

Ground visit: Kiran P Kulkarni, bioremediation expert (R), Swachh Bharat Mission, with Mangaluru City Corporation commissioner Ravichandra Naik (3,R), visit the pyrolysis plant at Pachanady in Mangaluru Mangaluru: Plastic waste buried in the Pachanady landfill is now being converted into fuel, with a waste-to-fuel facility producing nearly 10,000 litres of pyrolysis oil.Bengaluru-based ARV Conservation Care…

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Mountain beneath the mountain: Why Mumbai’s Mulund dump cleanup is still in the works | Mumbai News

Mumbai: On a scorching Thursday afternoon, our vehicle crawls across the uneven terrain of the Mulund dumping ground, lurching over mounds of excavated waste and freshly processed earth. Giant excavators claw into decades-old garbage while conveyor belts, trommel screens and compactors work relentlessly under a cloud of dust. This is not an active landfill. The…

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