Amid a global push to reduce the use of plastic for environmental reasons, India is promoting jute — better known in the United States as the fiber used in burlap — as a material for reusable shopping bags, home furnishings, clothing, even diapers and women’s sanitary pads.

Austin: Probably not just demand, but being able to do it all by myself. That’s probably my biggest thing that I’ve run into. Other than that, I haven’t had any issues in California with laws or anything like that.

Backdrop to the public meeting — the first-ever held by Parmalat to address issues in the neighbourhood — is a Winchester stink that has become, in the words of one audience member, “unliveable for the last two years.” Shurtleff apologized to the man in the audience who made that observation.

In recent decades, as manufacturers worldwide found that plastic and synthetic fibres made for cheaper and softer packaging, business suffered and dozens of the mills closed. About three-quarters of India’s jute now remains in the country, bought by the government to package state-supplied food grains at a cost of nearly $900 million a year.

Bulk earthmoving is seldom straightforward – especially when it takes place in wet conditions surrounded by sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), archeological digs and vulnerable habitats. The task undertaken by joint venture contractor Team Van Oord at Medmerry, near Selsey in West Sussex, had all these complications – and more.

Geotextile fabrics are used to produce grids, mats, nets and webs. Vegetation or plant based geotextiles have less shelf life as compared to synthetic fibres/polymer. Synthetic fibres do not get affected by the biological or chemical reactions/processes. The geotextiles have evolved and currently geotextiles are largely used in the civil engineering applications, due to their properties such as flexibility and texture suitable. Synthetic geotextiles materials are petrochemical based products, due to which, they are not environment friendly as they are responsible for carbon emission. Synthetic geotextiles are non-renewable as well.

Traditional horticulture has used aeration containers for decades, but they’re relatively new to cannabis. Extensive research and nursery use show air pruning’s benefits across plant types. Aerated containers encourage smaller root diameter and increased laterals, which means more root surface and nutrient uptake.

During his visit to Prayagraj last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two sewage infrastructure projects worth Rs 199.65 crore under the Namami Gange programme and laid the foundation for two projects worth Rs 1,671.59 crore.

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A plastic aeration pot with a long history of success in horticultural institutions is garnering attention in cannabis. Air-Pots, from Scotland’s Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd., are made from recycled plastic, with walls of inward-pointing, solid cones and outward-pointing, open-ended cones.

Bigger, better, faster. For many cannabis operations, commercial cultivation meant scaling up small-scale practices, but expansion introduces possibilities for new technologies and a competitive edge.

Manvitha and her team launched Homecrop to enable setting up urban gardens on rooftops and backyards.