For most people who work in offices, their least favourite part of the whole office experience is using the washrooms.
Urine spills, standing water, and soiled paper are all common occurrences in office washrooms.
Also common are the ghastly, persistent odours that make using the washroom a dreaded affair for most people at the office.
Our clients, Eureka Forbes, were facing similar issues at their head office too.
The stink from their washrooms was so bad the entire office was overpowered by the odours.
Like most places, they, too, tried air fresheners and chemical cleaners to get rid of the smell.
As we have seen many times in the past, though, air fresheners and chemical cleaners only provide temporary relief by masking the odours.
They don’t actually treat the root cause of the odours.
When they approached us for a solution, we first did a thorough inspection of their washrooms.
In our inspection, we discovered that the urinal sensors were not working properly.
This, combined with the reverse gases coming through the urinal pots, was the reason for the stink in their washrooms.
We told them about the issue and informed them about our Flushfree™️ Urinal Care Program, which not only resolves all odour issues in washrooms but also helps save 2 litres of water per urinal per usage.
They readily agreed to convert all their existing urinal pots to waterless urinals with this program, which doesn’t require any hardware modifications.
Along with this, we also advised them to switch to OB Care Restroom Odour Eliminator & OB Care Toilet Bowl Cleaner for cleaning washrooms to ensure completely odour free washrooms permanently.
Our revolutionary OB Care FlushFree™️ Urinal Spray controls all odours in urinals and can be used on all types of urinals without any structural changes.
Our OB Care Urinal Drain Cleaner has a unique, specially formulated enzymatic consortium that completely degrades urinary waste deposits in drain lines, preventing reverse gases emanating from urinal drains and also stopping drain lines from getting clogged.
The OB Care Rest Room Odour Eliminator is specially formulated to completely eliminate odours at source.
The OB Care Toilet Bowl Cleaner is a unique enzymatic formulation that uses nanobiotechnology to clean toilets without the harmful effects of corrosive chemicals present in conventional toilet cleaners, effectively cleaning toilets and getting rid of stains.
At our client’s location, they started using our products in our given SOP, and the results were almost immediate.
After just 2 days, the odour was controlled, and there was a minor stink. After 7 days, the washrooms were completely odour-free.
Our range of OB Care washroom cleaning and odour control solutions products is carefully and scientifically crafted to ensure washrooms are clean, fresh, and free of all odours.
Use the form below to contact us and learn how we can help you eliminate all the odours in your washrooms while also saving you from illnesses caused by chemical exposure from air fresheners and other cleaners.
Pharma manufacturing is an extremely regulated process all over the world for obvious reasons.
Even the slightest of miscalculations or contamination in the process can spell a public health disaster.
This is equally true for pharma API manufacturing as well.
Not only does the manufacturing process need to be foolproof, but effluent treatment protocols also need to meet health and safety regulations, and there are a number of variables that could cause issues in the wastewater treatment plants at such facilities.
Our clients, one of India’s leading pharma API manufacturers, were struggling with one such issue with their West India plant.
They have a large aerobic treatment plant with a capacity of 400 KLD, and the issue they needed our help with was inordinately large levels of ammoniacal nitrogen in their effluent.
High levels of ammoniacal nitrogen in wastewater are a regulatory and environmental concern. Such wastewater, when released, can cause severe damage to habitats and the aquatic life it comes in contact with.
At our client’s plant, ammoniacal nitrogen was in the range of 750-800 ppm.
After checking the effluent parameters, our team recommended immediate treatment with Cleanmaxx.
Cleanmaxx is a technologically advanced consortium of specially selected bacteria with a high biomass generation rate and the ability to withstand fluctuations in the wastewater environment.
Cleanmaxx encourages rapid COD/BOD reduction and reduces time & energy required for effective treatment, thereby cutting CAPEX/OPEX costs.
We started treatment with Cleanmaxx at our client’s plant with a 60-day treatment plan, and the results were drastic.
By the end of 60 days, ammoniacal nitrogen levels had dropped to less than 150 ppm and further stabilised at levels less than 100 ppm thereafter.
Our clients were thrilled with the results and have been our customers for the last 2 years, which we think is the best indicator of the efficiency of our wastewater treatment solutions.
If you are struggling with inefficient nitrification at your wastewater treatment plant or if any of your effluent parameters are beyond expectations, contact us to know how we can solve your wastewater woes, combining the advantages of nature and science.
Wastewater treatment is a challenge across industries.
Process-led contamination, external pollutants, and environmental variables… all combine to introduce different permutations of challenges that the wastewater treatment plant needs to resolve economically and efficiently.
One of the most challenging wastewater scenarios is often in dyes and paint-making units, where the addition of colours adds another layer of complexity to the process.
Such was the case with our client as well.
Our client has a dye manufacturing plant located in Western India, where they were dealing with a myriad of issues, primary among them being poor MLSS development.
Optimal MLSS development is extremely crucial to the wastewater treatment process.
When MLSS levels go too high, it can overload the system, resulting in bulking biomass and improper settling.
On the other hand, when MLSS levels are too low, it results in a lot of energy wastage, and the effluent doesn’t get treated properly.
Our client had an aerobic wastewater treatment system with a capacity of 75 KLD.
After analyzing their effluent parameters, our experts recommended a 60-day treatment program with Cleanmaxx.
Our solutions for wastewater treatment target a wide range of industries and are custom-designed to effectively and substantially degrade organic waste.
Cleanmaxx is a specialised heterogenous concentrated consortium of uniquely functional bacteria that can withstand hostile effluent waters.
Cleanmaxx is capable of rapid biomass development and can withstand fluctuations in any wastewater quality.
The bacterial consortium can sense, adapt & effectively treat aerobically treated wastewater of any industry origin, creating a unique microbial fingerprint acclimatised to the wastewater.
Treatment of wastewater with Cleanmaxx ensures rapid biomass generation while actively reducing sludge volume.
Cleanmaxx simultaneously ensures high levels of COD/BOD reduction even in effluent with high TDS and recalcitrant compounds.
Cleanmaxx is the perfect treatment for any type of aerobic wastewater system.
Sure enough, the results with Cleanmaxx at our client’s plant were as efficient and immediate as always.
MLSS levels went up by more than 200% at the end of 60 days, holding steady thereafter, with COD levels showing a corresponding marked improvement.
Our clients were extremely happy with the results, too.
We are thrilled that they have been our clients for 5 years, with Organica Biotech being their first port of call for any concerns related to wastewater treatment.
If you are struggling with wastewater treatment challenges of any kind, please get in touch with us so we can offer you an efficient, effective, eco-friendly wastewater treatment solution combining the best of science with the best of nature.
An engineering marvel 20 years in the making, the Konkan Railway is a 741-kilometer-long route connecting Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka.
From Mumbai to Mangalore, the Konkan Railway covers some of the most scenic rail routes in India, passing through serene rivers, gorgeous valleys, and awe-inspiring mountains.
Since the complete rail line was opened in 1998, passenger traffic (and trains) on this route has steadily been increasing, with services extended into Kerala, and now the Konkan Railways serve 1000s of passengers every single day.
While the Konkan Railway has been a welcome addition to India’s rail network, the increased passenger traffic on this line also means increased strain on the infrastructure at all stations along the route.
With more and more people using the Konkan Railway every day, facilities at all stations are under severe strain. As is the case with most public places that see a large number of footfalls, sanitation becomes increasingly challenging.
Generally, toilets at railway stations across India are disproportionate to the number of people that use them, resulting in invariably overcrowded toilets and all the attendant issues that go with them.
Konkan Railways had set up biotoilets at several stations to ensure hygienic sanitation facilities for all passengers.
However, overburdened toilets with minimal maintenance were proving to be a bigger challenge. Such was the case at Chiplun, too, when we were approached for a solution.
The toilets here had never been treated before, leading to massive sludge accumulation and resulting in overflow and untreated water leaking out of the closet.
The toilets were stinking, and leakages were helping the growth of pathogens in and around the toilets.
Stagnant water was also helping mosquitoes thrive, posing a dangerous public health hazard.
People also used the toilets to dump lots of waste – plastic bottles, paper, food wrappers, and similar stuff – that shouldn’t be disposed of in toilets in any case.
Added to this was the untreated wastewater leaking out, carrying all manners of toxic pathogens affecting the health of people and the surrounding environment.
Apart from the condition of the toilets, another area in which our help was sought was to minimise the hard stains over the toilet seats and all over the railway platforms.
We began immediate remedial treatment using Bioclean BD, BioArkk, and Bioswitch Hard Stain Remover for each of the problem areas.
Bioclean BD is our revolutionary, all-natural, microbial biodigestor tank treatment solution with specially designed high enzyme-producing bacteria that can completely degrade all fecal matter.
Bioclean BD works equally efficiently in all climatic conditions and breaks down existing sludge while also minimizing sludge buildup to prevent choke-ups.
Bioclean BD also curbs foul odour by inhibiting the growth of H2S and ammonia-producing bacteria.
It can degrade organic blockages in drain pipes, too, thus resolving any overflow and backflow issues.
BioArkk is a herb-based cleaning product that efficiently cleans surfaces, removes stains, and curbs odours.
It does not allow the growth of germs and drives away pests such as ants, cockroaches & flies as well.
Bioswitch Hard Stain Remover is our proprietary blend of microbes that can remove tough surface stains.
It ensures the deep cleaning of surfaces and delivers a longer-lasting effect on cleaned surfaces.
We started the treatment of the biotoilets with Bioclean BD. First, we mixed Bioclean BD with water and flushed this down the toilets to unclog the drain pipes and send all bacteria into the biodigester tank.
We had different treatment protocols for the two compartments of the biodigester tank.
In the first compartment, there was a lot of waste, like plastic bottles and food wrappers, and we used a more concentrated mixture of Bioclean BD to treat this compartment.
The second compartment had only organic wast,e and we used a slightly more diluted mix of Bioclean BD here.
The results started to show almost instantly. Within 10 days, all the sludge in the second compartment had fully broken down, and the water quality showed significant improvement, too.
Over 3 months, our treatment ensured fecal sludge was reduced by 5 feet, and all foul odours in the vicinity were eliminated.
Water clarity was improved, too, with COD values reducing by nearly 65%. TDS was reduced by nearly 50%, and TSS was reduced by 43%. Even TVS values were down 71%.
Simultaneously, we also started treatment for the stains.
The toilet seats were covered with black stains, and we started treating them with Bioswitch Hard Stain Remover four times a day.
This treatment, followed by a simple scrubbing with water, successfully removed all black stains from the toilet seats.
For the floors and walls, we used BioArkk for treatment.
A lot of the stains on the floors and the walls were paan stains from people happily spitting on them.
Using a small quantity of BioArkk 4 times a day ensured that all these stains were successfully wiped out.
For many people, train travel is the most romantic travel experience.
The single biggest grouse about train travel, though, is the hygiene levels at sanitation facilities both on trains and at stations.
With our treatment at Chiplun, we can safely say there is at least one station where the toilets will not take away from the romance of train travel.
To learn more about our solutions for maintaining public sanitation facilities, please fill out the form on the contact page, and we will get back to you with a solution obtained from nature and perfected by science.
What is common to most offices everywhere is that all of them have at least one washroom for employees, customers, and other visitors to use.
And keeping these washrooms clean and odour-free is one of the biggest challenges offices everywhere face.
Keeping washrooms odour-free directly impacts productivity, morale, and even attrition rates at the workspace.
Hardly surprising then, that office managers try everything under the sun to rid their washrooms of all odours.
Our clients, one of India’s leading and oldest petrochemical companies, was in a similar boat too.
Their head office in Mumbai had washrooms exuding a noxious odour, making everybody at the office grumbly and grouchy.
They tried everything in a vain attempt at ridding their washrooms of this unpleasant aroma.
All kinds of air fresheners and chemical cleaners were used. Unfortunately, these, when they worked, only provided temporary relief.
Not surprising because air fresheners and chemical cleaners don’t actually address the underlying cause of restroom odours.
Our team inspected a few washroom at the client’s office and immediately identified the root cause of the issue.
We discovered that the stink was simply because of reverse gases coming from the urinal pots.
The janitorial team at our client’s office had been using caustic soda to clean urinal drains, but it was ineffective.
We recommended our OB Care range of Washroom Cleaning and Odour Control Solutions.
Comprising of OB Care Toilet Bowl Cleaner, OB Care Washroom Cleaner & Odour Eliminator, OB Care FlushFree ™ Urinal Spray, and OB Care Urinal Drain Cleaner, our Washroom Cleaning and Odour Control Solutions are completely natural products that focus on solving the root of the problem and treating odours at the source.
Our completely natural, research-backed enzymatic formulations not only clean washrooms but also effectively degrade organic waste like urine deposits in drain pipes, thus neutralising the source of all bad odours.
The OB Care Toilet Bowl Cleaner is a unique enzymatic formulation that uses nanobiotechnology to clean toilets without the harmful effects of corrosive chemicals present in conventional toilet cleaners.
The OB Care Washroom Cleaner & Odour Eliminator is specially formulated to completely eliminate odours at source.
Our revolutionary OB Care FlushFree ™ Urinal Spray controls odours in your urinals and can be used on all types of urinals.
The OB Care Urinal Drain Cleaner has a unique, specially formulated enzymatic consortium that completely degrades urinary waste deposits in drain lines, preventing reverse gases emanating from urinal drains and also stopping drain lines from getting clogged.
Our clients started using our solution as per our recommended protocol, and the results were immediate.
Within 4 days, odour generation was controlled with minimal stink and after 10 days, their washrooms were completely odour-free.
After that, we asked them to reduce the dosage to regular maintenance levels to keep the washroom clean and odour-free.
This project also involved educating the janitorial staff about our solutions.
Their initial reaction to being presented with four products was one of reluctance, not knowing which products to use for what purpose.
In two training sessions over a month, we explained how OB Care FlushFree ™ Urinal Spray and OB Care Washroom Cleaner & Odour Eliminator were for odour control and how OB Care Toilet Bowl Cleaner and OB Care Urinal Drain Cleaner were to replace the existing chemicals they were using to clean the washrooms until then.
We also took them through the process of applying these products and how to maintain the washrooms afterward.
As effective as our Washroom Cleaning and Odour Control Solutions was in solving the odour issues at our client’s office, we also got validation from their janitorial staff.
They said after using our solutions, they didn’t experience any skin irritations or any fumes, both of which they were used to from chemical cleaning solutions.
Conventional, chemical-based cleaning products are loaded with combinations of harmful chemicals with proven ill effects on human and animal health and also the environment.
They also affect the indoor air quality of your offices and, when flushed after use, also affect your septic tanks and eventually enter our food and water, too.
With our OB Care range of cleaning solutions, we have revolutionised office cleaning to ensure you can get a clean office without subjecting yourself to a needless chemical assault.
Use the form below to contact us and learn how we can not only eliminate all odours in your washrooms naturally but also save you from fatal illnesses caused by chemical exposure from other cleaners.
Gödöllő is a small town in Hungary, not too far from Budapest.
Home to less than 40,000 people, Gödöllő counts several famous citizens amongst its residents, including former prime ministers, tennis players, footballers, physicians, and mathematicians.
Godollo is also home to national and global chemical and pharmaceutical companies that’ve set up R&D centres and other plants there, as well as other companies that’ve production centres in Gödöllő.
Like most small towns, all domestic waste is treated by the civic administration in Gödöllő too.
Our client, the municipal wastewater treatment plant in Gödöllő, was dealing with several issues when they approached us for a solution.
The plant was not running as efficiently as it could, generating excess sludge and consuming far too much energy in operations. Dissolved oxygen levels, too, were not optimal.
Our experts studied the data and established the following goals:
Reduction of the blower’s power consumption by biotechnological optimization of the activated sludge
Reduction of excess sludge quantity
Stabilization of effluent parameters
For treatment, we recommended Bioclean STP, beginning with a shock dose of 18 kg/day in the first week, which we subsequently reduced to 2 kg/day in the fifth week.
This is also the continued maintenance dosage.
Bioclean STP is our proprietary blend of numerous specially selected naturally occurring microbial strains that work synergistically to degrade complex organic matter in sewage.
Bioclean STP minimises sludge volume and improves good floc formability, accelerating biomass settling.
Bioclean STP ensures complete degradation of organic matter, ensuring no production of hydrogen sulphide and ammonia, and preventing malodours.
The microbes in Bioclean STP suppress pathogens prevalent in sewage waters, too, and reduce health risks.
Bioclean STP also stabilises the STP and helps it withstand shock loads.
At the Gödöllő municipal wastewater treatment plant, as expected, Bioclean STP started delivering immediate results.
Sludge Production
Before treatment, the average quantity of dewatered sludge at the plant was 258 m3/month.
After treatment with Bioclean STP, this has gone down to 216 m3/month.
Energy Consumption
In the aerobic reactors, due to the enhanced oxygen-utilizing ability of the activated sludge with a modified composition, the dissolved oxygen level was reduced from 2.5 mg/L to 0.8 mg/L.
This has reduced the power consumed by the blowers, resulting in a 16% decrease in the plant’s power consumption.
Energy consumption per treated water volume also went down from 0.436 kWh/m3 to 0.391 kWh/m3.
Municipal waste treatment plants around the world are under severe strain with the increasing migration of people toward urban areas.
While there have been engineering advancements in the design and processes of sewage water treatment plants, the development of bacterial treatment systems for effective sewage secondary treatment has not been accorded equal importance.
Bioclean STP is the game-changer.
It is easy to apply and speeds up plant commissioning.
Bioclean STP is 100% efficient and effective, regardless of climatic and weather conditions.
It accelerates organic matter degradation and minimises sludge production while also reducing fecal coliforms, providing complete odour control.
Using Bioclean STP does not require any hardware modifications either.
Using Bioclean STP ensures an improved treatment rate, thus reducing CAPEX and OPEX costs, too.
If you need a sewage treatment solution, or indeed any wastewater treatment solution, contact us now, and we will come back to you with a solution derived from nature and backed by science and research.
Restaurants are an experience for all our senses. Smell, sight, and taste are all fully engaged in any dining experience.
When complemented by the conversation of our companions, the eating-out experience is heightened even further.
And when our restaurant of choice offers a delightful ambiance and an extensive menu with options for everyone in the family, that is simply the icing on the cake.
One such restaurant is the one owned by our client, Pali Resort and Club Pvt. Ltd.
Located in Mira Road, this restaurant is blessed with good weather all year round, a welcome respite for city dwellers from Mumbai and the surrounding areas.
With seven different types of seating arrangements and cuisines spanning Indian, Chinese, Continental, Italian, and more, Pali Resort and Club is a preferred location for both families and corporate gatherings.
One of the challenges of running a large restaurant is the significant amount of organic waste generated.
Food scraps and excess food are always a concern.
Any venue that caters to a large number of people also requires an efficient method for managing toilet waste.
These concerns also affected Pali Resort and Club.
When our sales team reached out to them, we understood the real gravity of the situation.
They have a 10,000-litre septic tank that needs to be pumped out every month, at a cost exceeding Rs. 10,000 per month.
Sludge build-up was the primary concern, along with the accompanying odour.
In fact, the odour was so bad that the staff there had expressed severe concerns several times.
They needed a solution, and they needed it fast.
In most restaurants, both the kitchen and toilet outlets are connected to septic tanks.
Inappropriate treatment of kitchen and toilet waste leads to septic tanks becoming clogged, resulting in foul odours and backflows due to sludge buildup.
Using conventional treatment then leads to more and more frequent suctioning to clear the septic tanks.
The issue with treating fecal matter and food waste from septic tanks effectively is the complexity of the organic matter.
You need a solution that can work equally effectively on both, like Bioclean Septic Plus, our technologically advanced microbial consortium.
The microbes in Bioclean Septic Plus can detect the type of organic matter in the tank and act accordingly.
They degrade organic matter completely, not only preventing sludge build-up but also breaking down accumulated sludge.
However, even with ancient wisdom and technological advances, farming remains heavily dependent on the vagaries of nature.
Excessive rainfall and the prolonged absence of rainfall can both wreak havoc on crops, leaving farmers struggling to keep up.
With accelerating climate change and changing weather patterns globally, this is an increasingly significant challenge that farmers around the world are facing.
Rajesh Maley, too, was in a similar fix.
A farmer from Murtizapur, Akola, he has been farming for nearly 20 years and has his own 4-acre piece of land.
He grows soybeans in the Kharif season, followed by the Bengal gram in the Rabi season.
Times, however, are tough in the entire Vidarbha region, as they have been for many years now.
Severe drought spells, rapid climate change, and declining soil quality have consistently reduced crop yields and quality.
The frequent bouts of disease outbreaks haven’t helped matters for farmers in the region either.
After several legendary years of drought and extreme weather, Vidarbha saw extremely heavy rainfall this year, which is not good news for our farmer friends.
Extreme rainfall can cause as much damage as a spell of drought can. Leaching of nutrients from topsoil, water logging, and impaired root development are some of the problems caused by extreme rainfall.
Mr. Maley, too, faced many problems with his soyabean crop.
Yellowing of leaves, poor flowering, flower dropping, and weak branching all combined to portend extremely poor yields for him this season.
As luck would have it, though, Mr. Maley met our field staff at the local distributor, who recommended Magic Gro Super as an SOS treatment for his crop.
Mr. Maley began with one spray of Magic Gro Super, concentrated at 250 gm/acre, on the entire 4 acres of his soyabean plot. In just 15 days, he saw amazing results.
The leaves had transitioned from a yellowish-green to a much darker green, indicative of improved photosynthetic efficiency.
The flowering increased manifold, because of which they can now bear at least 10-12 pods per plant as opposed to the 3-4 pods they would’ve borne otherwise.
This will positively impact crop yields and reap great profits for Mr. Maley this year.
Encouraged by the results, Mr. Maley said that he would use the product every time he tended to his soybean field.
Not only this, but he is also certain that he wants to use Magic Gro Super on his Bengal gram crop.
A win for Mr. Maley, a win for Organica Biotech, a win for farmers, and more tofu for you to grill with that supersoft breakfast brioche.
They were using a specific dye as a catalyst in their manufacturing process.
This dye, with a pinkish to brownish color under alkaline conditions, was the primary reason for the color in their effluent.
Until then, they had been using chemical-based solutions for wastewater treatment, and the results were not effective.
We recommended treatment with Cleanmaxx to resolve all issues at their wastewater treatment plant.
Cleanmaxx is a consortium of 76-90 different strains of microbes that help in the effective reduction of wastewater parameters.
These microbes are isolated from soil and secrete enzymes that are natural and safe.
Our research indicated that CleanMaxx FOG was the best solution for this particular effluent.
And the results bore this out.
Within 15 days of Cleanmaxx addition, the intensity of colour in the effluent started diminishing.
Within two months, the colour was completely removed from the effluent.
Foul odour resulting from organic load in the effluent was a nuisance for the treatment plant.
Wastewater odour is most often associated with hydrogen sulphide and ammonia.
The microbes in Cleanmaxx do not cause putrefaction during the degradation process and also enhance the rate at which ammonia is converted into nitrite and subsequently into nitrate, eliminating the release of ammonia gas.
A significant reduction in odour was noticed within 5 days of introducing Cleanmaxx, and by 20 days, the odour was completely eliminated.
COD levels, too, were reduced by 97% using Cleanmaxx.
The best testimony to the effectiveness of Cleanmaxx in this project comes from our clients themselves.
“We have been using Cleanmaxx for the past 2 years, and it helped us to achieve significant improvement in the performance of our Wastewater Treatment Plant in terms of COD reduction, handling shock loads very well, improvement in colour at the outlet, biomass development, and improvement in the efficiency of a biological system.”
