Sometimes workers manually unfurl the rolls, and some firms develop home-made systems for the application.

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“The key challenge here was to have a limit between a small reduction in strengths, which we achieved, and using an appropriate amount of plastic to make it worthwhile,” said Orr, previously of Bath University and now a lecturer in concrete structures at Cambridge. “It is really a viable material for use in some areas of construction that might help us to tackle issues of not being able to recycle the plastic and meeting a demand for sand.”

“I just feel the engineer hasn’t figured out how to fix it yet,” Bousema said. “Why do we have to pay their bill?”

Starting in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government included the jute industry in a push to boost struggling domestic manufacturing. Operating with a modest $1-million annual budget, government scientists with the Indian Jute Industries’ Research Assn., working out of a lab in Kolkata, have developed food-safe bags made entirely from jute, with the aim of selling them in Western countries.

By removing them from their urban context and arranging them in a gallery-like setting, the plants take on a different status and help to promote a deeper appreciation of nature in the city.

Indian officials tout the humble fibre’s eco-friendly qualities. Extracted from the bark of a tall, reedy plant, jute requires less water than cotton and almost no pesticides, absorbs more carbon dioxide for its size than most trees, and is totally biodegradable.

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The baskets secure the dowels – the short steel bars that connect slabs without restricting horizontal joint movement. This can help prevent the faulting, or “steps,” that can occur during a pavement’s life, according to the Federal Highway Administration, which works closely with the CP Tech Center.

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.

“Chevron who is supposed to be a blessing to us has become a curse to us. They take our oil from us and give us peanuts. They try to colonize some of our brothers (IRDC members) and give them money to fight the whole Itsekiri land,” he said.

Forty such compactors, each with 40 tonnes of storage, are deployed in the mela. As soon as they are filled, the waste will be transported to a plant outside of the city. “Arrangement is such for waste disposal that once the trash is lifted from dustbins, it will touch the ground again only at its disposal site,” Prayagraj Commissioner Dr Ashish Kumar Goel assures.