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Airline growth at what risk?

Dear Editor,

Your report on Virgin Airlines making an effort to provide clean air travel interesting. In India today, we are still finding that every year 3-4 new Airlines are getting launched. The amount of air fuel that is damaging the stratosphere with extreme pollution is alarming. Airlines need to take pride in growth. That is fine. But they are not at all worried about the enormous damage of carbon pollution. Any talk on the environment is of no use if some concerted effort is not made by governments to increase the efficiency of aircraft and reduce fuel consumption and carbon emission.

S. Ramakrishna,
Chennai

Using waste material for building blocks

Dear Editor,

Your report in the February-March edition of Crossover on debris-based blocks that BCIL is using has excited us. Can I request you to provide details of the technology and the method of such reuse of waste material? We are constructing a hospital in Tamil Nadu and we think the building will benefit from this method of construction.

Thank you,
Ramkumar,
Coimbatore.

Ideal Homes

Dear Editor,

The report on the Ideal Homes Residents’ Association makes us want to know more about how to implement such a waste management treatment system in our own colony.
We are a public sector company’s Residential Colony in Bangalore and we have about 830 houses. All our residents are extremely worried about poor disposal of waste in our colony. Can you please help us with a training programme for our colony’s association? I have tried Ms. Meera Rao, the Honorary Secretary of the IHR association. It will help if your magazine’s staff could speak to them and arrange for a meeting with us.

S.K. Manjula,
Bangalore.