Tag: our life and environment

Environment is the surrounding in which the life exists. It is very essential to protect environment because life completely depends on environment. Wild life forms major part of environment. They ought to be protected because one way or the other life is interconnected and one form of life depends on the other. In order to protect wild life, hunting has to be stopped.

Environment-friendly, (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green) are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that claim reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment.

During mining, extraction of minerals from rocks generates waste. In this process waste minerals are also generated. It is followed by benefaction wherein the mineral obtained is washed, crystallized etc to separate out the finer waste that comes along. After this, the mineral is chemically treated such that the waste obtained after the process is much different from the waste that entered the system.

Gas leak is a menace during mining mining, especially, methane. This happens more in coal mines, where there is abundance of carbon. An atom of carbon with hydrogen to form methane. It is suffocating and has proved fatal to miners in the past.

The term was coined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in its 1992 publication “Changing Course,” and at the 1992 Earth Summit, eco-efficiency was endorsed as a new business concept and means for companies to implement Agenda 21 in the private sector.

Eco-mark is a certification issued by Bureau of Indian Standards to products which cause less harm to the environment than their close alternatives, and meet some minimum requirements laid down by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Sixteen categories of products have been identified in the list which includes soaps and detergents, paints, food items, food additives and preservatives, paper, wood substances, textiles, batteries, lubricating oil, vegetable oils, packaging, plastics, cosmetics, aerosols, pesticides and drugs and electronic goods.