EARTHLINGS have lost yet another year since the last Earth Day 2022! And we have a lot to show for all the progress made in conferences, meetings, policy tweaks on papers, verbal assurances of implementing more and more conservation measures to push away the ZERO WATER DAY! In the meantime, summer of 23 has arrived with a vengeance and even as I write this quote in Mumbai, the outside temperature is about 400 C. When Nature starts asserting itself notwithstanding the half-hearted human endeavours, it beats all predictions and computational…
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Green Hydrogen’s Cleanest Route – Waste
The rapidity at which India is expanding and urbanising, it is time to press the pedal on turning municipal waste to energy, dovetailed with the National Green Hydrogen Mission. In India, unsustainable garbage management affects living spaces for most cities. According to the World Bank, over 90% of waste in low-income countries is disposed of in dumps or is burned unchecked. Such activities have major effects on people’s health and the environment. We need to recognise the need for an effective and efficient garbage collection mechanism for solid waste management. According…
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