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A Panacea for Biomedical Waste Management?

The Environmental Blog

2] Since March 2020, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued periodic guidelines under the. 5] Based on the report submitted by the Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, the Apex Court passed an order in July 2020 which made reporting via BWM App obligatory. Smart Waste Bins.

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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? The growing air pollution monitoring market.

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How Houston’s model could change the way cities map air pollution

EDF + Business

Ordinary fleet vehicles doing their normal jobs in cities have hidden potential to shape actions that protect health and the climate. This is possible with the help of advanced mobile air pollution sensors paired with connected vehicle GPS technologies that allow cities to map pollutants at a hyperlocal scale.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

Acelerex pairs clean energy and storage technologies with proprietary software innovations of AI, IoT devices, blockchain, big data, data mining, cloud computing, and real time optimization algorithms. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. As air pollution and climate change pose unprecedented threats to cities across the globe, it’s more important than ever to transform the way that urban areas operate.

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Big business must lead the way as part of a post Covid-19 green recovery

Business Green

The global lockdown during the current pandemic has seen an unprecedented fall in pollution levels in many parts of the world. Our 5G and full fibre networks have the potential to make the Internet of Things (IoT) and the idea of smart cities a reality for many people across the UK.

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Illuminating the City of Light

Smart Energy International

The organisation responsible for public lighting, traffic light signals and lighting sites for the City of Paris changes from time to time, but always shares the city’s goal of reducing public lighting energy consumption by 30% over the next 10 years. CITY OF LIGHT: STARTING POINT. Read the full Partner Showcase here.