ECO-FRIENDLY PRODUCTS

“RURAL FRIDGE” THAT DOES NOT REQUIRED ELECTRICITY:


A potter by caste, Mansukhbhai Raghavbhai Prajapati grew up with clay. In 2005, he thought, “why not build a rural fridge that would not need electricity”?, so he came out with Mitticool fridge.

The Mitticool fridge uses the same principal of cooling as the clay pots in which villagers store drinking water in India. At the top is a storage chamber for 10 liters of water, & the bottom compartments can hold 5-7 kg of vegetables, fruits, milk at a temperature that is 8-10 degrees lower than the room temperature, irrespective of the location. Vegetables & fruits stay fresh for around a week, he claims.

NOW THE COLOR OF THE MONEY IS GREEN

Many enterprises now recognize that if they do not develop eco-friendly products, packaging & manufacturing process by the time, they may be shut out of premium segments.


Sustainable solutions are essential to people who don’t access to water, electricity or clean air. For these customers, company needs to develop products that can work with small quantities of water or electricity or air that use alternative source of energy such as solar power. NGOs, labor organization 7 Govt. are also compelling companies to develop more sustainable products, their environment standards have become business norms in exports markets.

REDUCING CARBON FOOT PRINT BY USING IT-2

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 As we wait for the renewable energy industry to give us the perfect answer, information technology (IT) is doing its bit to introduce energy efficiency & reduce the carbon intensity of ours lives. Software now let you make products taking into account their environmental impact.

           Visualization technologies reduce the need to use hardware, & thus help save energy in computing. Networks & sensors help you automate energy usage across enterprises, thus help reduce the carbon footprint. Smart grids help utilities regulate the flow of electricity. IT consumes a small portion of the energy in the world, but the IT industry has a big influence on the world’s energy consumption

REDUCEING CARBON FOOT-PRINT BY USING IT

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Autodesk makes software that can analyze the environment impact & energy requirements of building minutely. Its office in San Francisco has a museum of sorts that display all the wonderful things software can do to improve the environment. You can calculate the environmental impact of products-chairs, shoes, aircraft engines, farm equipmenet at the design stage itself, and reduce it as much as possible.

Wile this does impact the total carbon foot print of industries, green buildings make a substantial difference to the carbon emissions in the world. Building contributes to about 25% of emissions globally & in India 35%.

WASTE MANAGEMENT- A BILLION DOLLAR UNTAPPED GREEN INDUSTRY IN INDIA

Due to the lack of proper utilization of waste management in urban area of India, solid waste will be a real trouble to the municipalities in India. However, the market potential of Waste management in India only is near about $8 billion & globally it is $150 billion. Nevertheless, the organized sector of waste management in India has tapped just $500 million only.

INDIA’S POTENTIAL IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

1. No overall, data, but one report says urban India generates 100,000 tonnes of solid waste a day.
2. Solid waste generated could grow at 10% a year.
3. India’s industry generates 6,232,507 tonnes of hazardous waste a year.
4. Plastic waste accounts for 10,000 tonnes of municipal waste a day.
5. An industry body report estimated e-waste in 2007 at 382,979 tonnes including 50,000 tonnes of imports.

This data is only for urban area in India. Rural area is yet too explored. The possibilities of waste management in India are endless.

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Overcoming the recycling related obstacles

1.     Commitment on the part of citizens is vital to make recycling a success.

2.      Depletion of high-grade ores will surely increase recycling.

3.     Public awareness through education from schools, environmental group & the media can also help.

4.     To be successful, recycling programmes must also be convenient & cost-effective.

5.      Recycling also requires involvement, commitment & action. Separation thrush before collection requires a little effort.

  In the ultimate analysis, it secures that we have an impact by purchasing products made from recycled materials. The demand for recycled must grow, if recycling is to succeed on a large scale.

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RECYCLING
Obstacles: No doubt recycling is a promising strategy for waste management. However, there are various obstacles to recycling. All these hinder its full implementation.
1. Not a good option. Firstly, in the most cases recycling is not a good option as reuse. Nevertheless, it is better than burning materials and much better than throwing than away.
2. Rigidity. Secondly, given the screamingly inexhaustible supply of materials, factories are primarily set up to handle virgin material. The entire production consumption system is built without recycling in mind. Changing the system is not easy.
3. Image problem. Thirdly, recycling suffers from an image problem. Some recycled products are inferior quality as is true of paper.


 4. Plastics. Plastics pose a special problem for recycling. Some package contain two or more types of plastics, making it difficult to recycle. Since different plastics cannot be recycled together, separation of different plastics before recycling