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Indian Government Call for Proposals on Waste to Energy Projects

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 15, 2016

The Indian government has launched a Call for Proposals on for Municipal Solid Waste to Energy projects under the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission aimed at improving sanitation in the country...

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Sukhbir inaugurates solid waste management project amid protests in Punjab

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 15, 2016

As many as one hundred agitating protesters, including MLAS, at Bhagatanwal garbage dumping site courted arrest while protesting the decision of not shifting the dumping site out of city even as...

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Higg Index Access to SME Community

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 9, 2016

To increase access and adoption of a common measurement standard and basis for sustainability improvements within the global apparel, footwear and home textile industries, the Sustainable...

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Extension for Bangladesh cleaner textile initiative

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 29, 2016

The Bangladesh Water PaCT: Partnership for Cleaner Textile has been extended for another year, with program activities now slated through to June 30, 2017. PaCT brings together buyers, wet...

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Subject Tags: sustainability , Textiles

Why Starbucks issued its first 'sustainability' bond

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 29, 2016

Slowly but surely, U.S. companies are waking up to the notion that bonds can be a useful financing mechanism for all manner of corporate sustainability projects.

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SAC looks to expand Materials Sustainability Index

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 27, 2016

Textile material suppliers will now be able to submit apparel, footwear and home textiles material data into the Higg Index’s Materials Sustainability Index (MSI), after the Sustainable Apparel...

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Subject Tags: sustainability , Textiles

NDMC signs agreement with NEERI to develop sewage treatment plants

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 22, 2016

In a bid to develop green areas and revamp big and small parks under its jurisdiction, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has signed an agreement with National Environmental Engineering...

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Environment panel to visit pollution-hit Pali villages

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 22, 2016

Two decades of unprecedented and rampant pollution and various eyewashes due to textile dyeing printing industry in Pali affecting hundreds of villages! Finally , the legislators seem to have...

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Gurgaon hogs more power than Delhi, Mumbai

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2016

Its population is significantly lower than the metros but Gurgaon consumes much more power per person than Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, data compiled by the state discom shows...

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Volvo-Eicher Motors plant in Indore designed on the concept of ‘0’ emission

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2016

The lush fields on both sides of the highway in a sense serve as precursors to what we are about to witness as we approach VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd's three-year-old bus plant in Indore’s...

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