HCCB

Helping the farmers with Rainwater Harvesting techniques India is an agriculture-based country where 70% of the economy comes from the primary sector: farming. As intensive agriculture is spreading across India, there is an urgent need to encourage  rainwater harvesting   for irrigation. Nearly 60 % of farmers of the country depend on monsoons for agriculture due to the dearth of sustainable water resources. The erratic rain pattern was disturbing the livelihood of the cultivators. To address the issue a scientific water conversation technique named  rainwater harvesting  was introduced. What is Rainwater Harvesting? Rainwater harvesting is a technique where the rainwaters are collected into natural reservoirs, tanks or made to infiltrate the surface waters via subsurface aquifers. Rainwater harvesting is a simple easy and cost-effective technique that can be set up in open farming fields to collect and use the rainwater for irrigating crops. During the pas...

Plastic Waste Management It is believed that India generates whooping 25,000 tons of plastic waste per day. The shocking aspect is that this amount of plastic waste is entering the food chain and endangering the lives of the people. To address this issue the government has introduced EPR- Extended Producer Responsibility in the P lastic Waste Management Rules 2016. What is EPR? EPR is the concept where the owners and producers take onus and responsibility to curb the plastic waste generated at different levels of manufacturing and packaging processes that are involved in their products and ensure that the generated plastic waste is recycled and reused effectively. Why EPR? EPR can act as a feasible solution for plastic waste management. EPR encourages the organisations with incentives and creates a platform for reuse, buyback or recycling of materials. EPR is a practice and policy approach that makes the producers responsible for collecting and processing the plastic waste...

Waste management  is one of those things that all of us shy away from. Give any man a chance to tidy up his surroundings, and I am sure he will shy away from the task before him. Also note that when I say tidy up his surroundings, I don’t mean his immediate surroundings, but places like his neighbourhood, areas in the city that are choked with soot and filth, etc. This apathy towards a problem that we are collectively responsible for, is the reason that our planet is at the brink of its own doom. Plastic waste is a by-product of the manufacture of petrol, and comes with the caveat that they decompose very, very slowly. For instance, an ordinary bottle of plastic takes as much as 500 years to decompose in a landfill, while other forms, like lower grades of plastic used to make bags, take as many as 1000 years to decompose. But recycling plastic is a way out of this predicament. Times like this call for each one of us, to come to the frontlines and do their best to save the Ear...