Environmental Control | ELGi https://blog.elgi.com A digital destination to share knowledge and industry insights on compressed air Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:21:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.elgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ELGi-favicon.jpg Environmental Control | ELGi https://blog.elgi.com 32 32 Plastic. Not fantastic https://blog.elgi.com/sustainability/plastic-not-fantastic/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:23:56 +0000 http://blog.elgi.com/?p=1633 The big bad plastic bag. Everyone everywhere has used one and surely a number of times. Every year, a trillion plastic bags are used. That’s a hundred thousand plastic bags every 3 seconds – the time it takes for you to blink. At the rate we dispose of them, in 2050 there will be more … Continue reading Plastic. Not fantastic

The post Plastic. Not fantastic first appeared on ELGi.]]> The big bad plastic bag. Everyone everywhere has used one and surely a number of times. Every year, a trillion plastic bags are used. That’s a hundred thousand plastic bags every 3 seconds – the time it takes for you to blink.

At the rate we dispose of them, in 2050 there will be more plastic bags than fish in the water. There already are 4 trillion plastic bags, bottles and containers afloat in the oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was discovered to the west of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean sometime in the late 80s, the same decade that plastic bags began to be used in supermarkets across the world. This field of debris continues to grow at an alarming rate and is now almost the size of India itself.

The post Plastic. Not fantastic first appeared on ELGi.]]> Wild Wild Waste! https://blog.elgi.com/sustainability/wild-wild-waste/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:02:17 +0000 http://blog.elgi.com/?p=1565 Water birds are among the easiest birds to observe, mostly frequenting open stretches of water with no obstructions, so they stand out. Sometimes water birds turn up in large numbers in urban areas. Remarkable looking flamingos, pink, long-necked and long-legged, flock to Sewri mudflats in Mumbai almost every winter. Pelicans, among the largest birds capable … Continue reading Wild Wild Waste!

The post Wild Wild Waste! first appeared on ELGi.]]> Water birds are among the easiest birds to observe, mostly frequenting open stretches of water with no obstructions, so they stand out. Sometimes water birds turn up in large numbers in urban areas. Remarkable looking flamingos, pink, long-necked and long-legged, flock to Sewri mudflats in Mumbai almost every winter. Pelicans, among the largest birds capable of flight and with extraordinarily large and extensible bills, have been sighted in recent years in the Pallikaranai marshes of Chennai. These large cities with intense human activity have water courses that are polluted. Why then do birds such as pelicans, flamingos and others congregate here?

The post Wild Wild Waste! first appeared on ELGi.]]> A Clean Sweep https://blog.elgi.com/sustainability/a-clean-sweep/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:01:20 +0000 http://blog.elgi.com/?p=1382 The US environmental agency employs air compressors to fire carbon pellets to trap contaminants in Dover’s Mirror Lake. A clear sunny day, a picnic basket, a game of frisbee and enjoying a sunset by the lake – doesn’t it sound perfect? Sadly, though, if the latest reports are to be believed, 50 percent of the … Continue reading A Clean Sweep

The post A Clean Sweep first appeared on ELGi.]]> The US environmental agency employs air compressors to fire carbon pellets to trap contaminants in Dover’s Mirror Lake.

A clear sunny day, a picnic basket, a game of frisbee and enjoying a sunset by the lake – doesn’t it sound perfect? Sadly, though, if the latest reports are to be believed, 50 percent of the lakes in the world are polluted. Even if it seems glittery blue on the surface, life underneath may be choking.

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