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If water dams above standard battens because of broken Both homes are projected to achieve Emerald status,
tiles or failed flashing, it could cause a roof leak. The which is the highest of the four levels of green building
elevated battens also let air flow from the eaves to roof recognized by the ICC 700 National Green Building
ridges and hips. This ventilation cools the roof during Standard. Other anticipated certifications for both homes
hot weather. In addition, TNARH has high-end drywall include the Department of Energy's Energy Star, Builders
by Certainteed, including SilentFX in the bedrooms and Challenge qualified/Build America Program, EPA Indoor
bathrooms, which is a viscoelastic polymer material that airPLUS qualified and the private Wellness Within Your
is sandwiched between two layers of drywall for noise Walls designation.
reduction.
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Creating a less wasteful economy in India
Recycling must be improved with respect to industrial by-products and all sorts of waste —
Municipal, Plastic and Electronic
The current human footprint exceeds the earth’s products to identify the tipping point to loop back. The
bio-capacity by more than 50 per cent. Humankind good news is that reuse and recycling has been part
has exceeded the planetary boundaries for biodiversity of India’s traditions. India recently set up a circular
loss, climate change and many other vital parameters.
Mainstreaming the norms of “circular economy”— a
conceptual value-preserving model — can help transit
towards a sustainable future where instead of extraction
of natural resources, as in most linear industrial models,
resources are reintegrated, regenerated and reutilised.
Drawing upon principles from approaches such as economy working group with Germany. Value creation and
cradle-to-cradle and biomimicry, the ‘circular economy’ preservation can happen through many approaches such
emphasises eliminating the concept of waste, and the use as industrial symbiosis, renewable energy deployment and
of renewable energy and systems thinking. Through the energy efficiency initiatives, establishing performance
design of products consisting of biological materials or economy and sharing economy platforms.
recyclable constituents, every component of a product
can either be looped into its natural cycle or used as a India produces 62 million tonnes of municipal solid
resource for new products. Today, recycling activities in waste (MSW) a year. Over 81 per cent is disposed at
India are dominated by the informal sector and recycling open dumpsites without treatment. Planned efforts can
quotas are not yet fully exploited. Secondary raw lead to utilisation of about 65 per cent of the waste in
material usage in the manufacturing industries remains producing energy or compost, and 15 per cent to promote
low (20-30 per cent) and much needs to be done in closing the recycling industry and bring down the dumped waste
the material loop. to under 20 per cent.
Fundamental change India uses only 38 per cent of its total fly ash production
for cement manufacturing, brick manufacturing,
Integrating circular thinking across industries could help agriculture and so on. With continued reliance on coal,
shift the way the Indian economy works, create new
jobs and enable investment. This will entail committing
to a policy agenda that can optimise waste streams,
recycle materials and rethink planned obsolescence of
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