Thursday, June 28, 2012

Can going green solve some of India's problems?

At his factory in the outskirts of Mumbai, Nitin Bondal is staring proudly at a large machine. The 4m (13ft) orange structure has a futuristic air, as it stands, pride of place, in the corner of a dusty, decades-old workshop, filled with the stench of factory fumes. Two men climb up to the top, and start pouring bags of broken plastic down a chute. When Mr Bondal presses a button, the machine whirrs to life, and in about an hour, a form of petrol starts to drip into a bottle at the other end. "This is our prototype machine, it turns all types of waste into crude oil," he says proudly. See full Article.