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Looking at solar panels on rooftops used to be my day job for a while. Now, I have to admit that I never viewed those rooftop solar panels as beautiful during that time. Because, well, they were not. Solar panels on rooftops looked ok at best, and in many circumstances,...

  A recent article on a fire break-out incident in a commercial complex at Anna Salai, Chennai – once again brought into our attention the risks that Air Conditioners pose in our households, offices and commercial buildings – if no safety measures are adopted. As per the statistics from the...

Can we make plastics out of plants? Of course yes! That is indeed what the domain of bioplastics is all about. Bioplastics is a long and fascinating topic. Here are the nice folks at the Cleantech Guide providing a concise overview of bioplastics and its applications. Also check out: EAI...

One way to reduce plastic pollution is to replace it/substitute it with an equivalent alternative that do not pose the same environmental threats as does plastic. Is there such a substitute available? Well, bioplastics is a contender to the throne. But how good a substitute is bioplastics to conventional plastics?...

Like you can burn coal or wood to generate / recover energy, so can you by burning plastics. Now, that’s an interesting method to get rid of waste plastic that are polluting the earth, and at the same time also getting some useful energy from them, isn’t it? Well, the...

Everyone wishes to decrease the amount of pollution from plastic. And this everyone includes the ordinary you and me, corporates, municipalities and more. But the more they try, like the hydra, the more avenues appear through which the plastics pollute even more than before. So, we have to get more...

Have you ever asked yourself this interesting question – how did we live before plastics were invented? I mean, how could we have lived without plastics? The folks at the Cleantech Guide have taken up this question and provided a detailed answer here on how humans could have ever lived...

While on plastic pollution and its remediation through recycling, one question many folks have is whether it is possible to recycle all types of plastics. The answer is No, but there are multiple reasons for the infeasibility. Here’s a detailed post on the Cleantech Guide that provides insights on these...

While I mainly operate in the renewable energy space, other related domains within sustainability is of significant interest to me. One of the areas that I have been following is the use of organic produce in a wide range of areas. We all are aware of the use of organic...

The Bioplastics Guide, launched recently, provides a strategic overview of the small but fast-growing global bioplastics sector. With plastic pollution becoming an important concern for many countries, there is a move towards alternatives to plastics, and bioplastics is one of them. The bioplastics market is however nascent, and hence there...