Aafrin Kidwai
At least 3.4 million tonnes per annum (TPA) of plastic waste was generated in 2019-20, of which approximately 1.5 million TPA was recycled and 0.16 million TPA co-processed in cement kilns. A portion of unprocessed and…
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Almost a week after the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) ordered its concessionaires to collect only segregated waste, the agencies continue to collect mixed garbage. More than half the compactors are transporting mixed garbage to Bhandewadi…
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The solid waste treatment plant at North Goa’s Saligao is ready for operations. As reported earlier on SolidWasteIndia, the plant has been enhanced to handle 250 tonne of waste from the earlier 100 tonne per…
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The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has asked the Kochi Corporation to take immediate corrective action at the solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram or shut it down. The local body’s continued apathy despite…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will put up “thank you” notes on the doors of city residents who segregate waste at their home. On the other hand, ‘Request messages’ will be put up for those…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is all set to stop collecting non-segregated garbage from houses and commercial establishments. The civic body is also planning to fine residents and commercial establishments who do not segregate waste.…
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The Trichy Corporation has not yet installed semi-underground garbage bins almost eight months after procuring them, reports The Times of India. The civic body has kept the two prototypes of the expensive bins at the…
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Coimbatore Municipal Corporation is planning to install more bins and replace the damaged ones with new bins to prevent residents from dumping garbage on the roadsides. These bins will be cleared regularly by deploying more…
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has given its green signal for the second waste-to-energy plant at Jawaharnagar. A 19.8 MW waste-to-energy plant is already operational at Jawaharnagar and this second WtE…
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The waste-to-energy plant (WTE) at Bandhwari will be operational in two years, chief minister Mr Manohar Lal Khattar has announced. Mr Khattar laid the foundation stone of the plant on December 10. With 15MW capacity,…
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Antony Waste Handling Cell’s subsidiary, AG Enviro Infra Projects, has received a letter of intent (LoI) for door-to-door collection and transportation (C&T) of municipal solid waste (MSW) from the Sadar Paharganj Zone of North Delhi…
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The World Bank Group today has announced the 20-month debarment of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) in connection with a fraudulent practice as part of the Capacity Building for Industrial Pollution Management Project in India. The debarment makes REEL and its Managing Director, Mr. M. Goutham Reddy, ineligible to participate in projects and operations…
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As a result of the efforts under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U), all cities have started practising scientific disposal of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). This information was given by Minister of State in the Ministry…
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The Niti Aayog and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) have released Waste-wise Cities: Best practices in municipal solid waste management which shares how Indian cities are managing their solid waste. The new report is the…
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Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0), under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), has launched the Swachh Technology Challenge. The Challenge seeks to harness the entrepreneurial potential of the waste…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India to strengthen the waste management sector in India under the overall ambit…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation (TMC) is facing a departmental inquiry for graft in waste management. Kerala’s local self-government department (LSGD) has ordered a probe into corruption allegations in the functioning of IT cell for waste…
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India’s waste management landscape has undergone massive transformation since the Prime Minister launched the Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM) in 2014. Multiple clean up drives were held across the country and substantial resources were earmarked for…
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The Niti Aayog has released policy guidelines to help promote behaviour change among stakeholders towards waste segregation at source (WSS). Titled Promoting Behavior Change for Supporting Waste Segregation at Source, these guidelines are intended for…
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The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), which is responsible for solid waste management in Noida, will hold its second edition of the internal, competitive cleanliness survey on the lines of Swachh Survekshan. GNIDA has…
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In the second leg of its waste data collection exercise, the UN-HABITAT is mapping waste flows in Thiruvananthapuram. In August this year, a similar exercise had been carried out in Mangaluru. The UN-Habitat is undertaking…
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For the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, improving the environment, restoring nature and maintaining cleanliness has become a prime focus. Since 2019, more than 33,000 square meters of land have been converted from waste dumpsite to ecology…
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Maruti Suzuki Toyotsu India Private Limited (MSTL)’s first government-approved ELV scrapping and recycling unit has been inaugurated in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 10,993 sq m facility has a capacity to scrap and recycle over 24,000…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has urged citizens to pay the stipulated user fees to the civic body in a timely manner. Reportedly, some private waste agencies in the municipal area are collecting user fees…
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President Shri Ram Nath Kovind honoured the awardees of Swachh Survekshan (SS) 2021 at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ organised by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on Saturday. The award…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has floated tenders to procure seven lakh garbage bins. The bins will be distributed to over two lakh households belonging to the below the poverty line in the city.…
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The last session of the CII’s Waste to Worth Conference on November 17, titled ‘Untapped Potential – Challenges and Opportunities in Integrated/ Decentralized Waste Management in India focussed on WtE, decentralized biogas, bio-CNG, RDF and compost…
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The second session on Day 2 of the CII’s Waste to Worth Conference focussed on ‘Sustainable Management of SCF/ RDF from MSW in Cement Kilns and WtE Plants. Moderated by Mr Ulhas Parlikar – Global Consultant –…
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Moderated by Ms Bineesha P, Member- ECC, Office of the PSA, GoI and Executive Director, IIWM, Session 1 on Day 2 of the CII’s Virtual Waste to Worth Conference saw founders of various start-ups sharing their innovative solutions…
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The second session on Day 1 of the CII’s virtual Waste to Worth Conference on Plastic Recycling, EPR and Beyond and saw an intense discussion on the opportunities and challenges in EPR compliance by Brands, PROs, and Recyclers; challenges…
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The third and last session of the inaugural day of the CII’s Virtual Waste to Worth Conference focussed on India’s e-waste landscape and addressed the status of India’s e-waste management ecosystem, challenges and potential paths for improvements,…
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The CII’s Waste to Worth Conference kickstarted this afternoon with a panel discussion on Models & Best Practices for Waste Management. This session focused on existing waste management systems, models, and best practices across India and abroad…
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With the theme of ‘Moving towards a Circular Economy through innovative 3R approaches’, the CII’s digital Conference on Waste to Worth was inaugurated on Tuesday morning by Prof Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and H.E. Mr. Adam Burakowski,…
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Effective management of waste will not only improve the public health and environment but enhance the quality of life by generating jobs, creation of new products generate energy, finally leading to a Swachh, Swasth, Sashakt, Sampann and Atmanirbhar Bharat. Towards…
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The Greater Noida Development Industrial Authority (GNIDA) has floated a Rs 121 crore tender for door-to-door waste collection from its urban and rural areas and transportation to the landfill. Interested companies can apply for the…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has directed waste concessionaire Ecogreen Energy to set up four material recovery facilities (MRFs), one in each zone of the city. The MCG commissioner Mr Mukesh Ahuja has said…
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Bhubaneshwar is planning to establish 14 Material Recovery Facility (MRF) centres. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has a target of total 41 MCCs and 10 MRFs. Currently, four MRFs are fully functional, civil construction of…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has constituted a committee to examine the billing and auditing of private concessionaires managing municipal waste collection and transportation in its zones. A panel has been appointed for the…
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With the theme of ‘Moving Towards a Circular Economy Through Innovative 3R approaches’, the CII is organizing its digital Conference on Waste to Worth on November 16 and 17, 2021 in association with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor and the Republic…
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Union Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Mr Hardeep Singh Puri has said that public-private partnerships will be vital for financing, low-cost technologies, new business models and innovative monitoring mechanism to meet the growing demand…
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The Delhi government has launched a campaign against open burning of waste. The campaign will run till December 11 and will be implemented by 550 teams from 10 departments, reports Mint. Citizens have been asked…
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Bengaluru’s Koromangala waste management facility received a visit from the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to India, Mr Ugo Astuto. The EU and German Federal Ministry of the Environment and Nature Conservation and Nuclear…
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With the theme of ‘Moving Towards a Circular Economy Through Innovative 3R approaches’, the CII is organizing its digital Conference on Waste to Worth on November 16 and 17, 2021 in association with the Office of the Principal Scientific…
Aafrin Kidwai
Over the last four decades, Mr Prabhjot Sodhi has donned several hats in areas related to waste management, circular economy and climate change. Currently, as Senior Program Director at Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Mr…
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Initial data shows waste volumes rose significantly in comparison with the last few years during Diwali week. In Nagpur, the daily volume of garbage increased by almost 200MT, as per SWM department officials. On the…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has received environmental clearance from Maharashtra’s State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) for the Deonar Waste to Energy project. The procedure to secure environmental clearance from the Central government is…
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The Faridabad Municipal Corporation (FMC) has announced it will achieve 100 per cent waste collection by early next year. For this purpose, the civic body has procured 110 vehicles to collect segregated waste in the…
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The CII’s annual Waste to Worth Conference on November 16 and 17 will see industry experts debate and discuss important issues facing the waste sector. This year, the conference will focus on the theme ‘Moving Towards a Circular Economy…
Aafrin Kidwai
The countdown has begun for CII’s International Conference on Waste to Worth on November 16 and 17. This year, the conference will focus on the theme ‘Moving Towards a Circular Economy Through Innovative 3R Approaches’. The two-day conference, which is followed…
Aafrin Kidwai
It’s been two years since I took on the role of Editor-in-Chief of solidwasteindia.com – the first website dedicated to news and information on solid waste management (SWM) in India. Ever since, SWI has been focused on…
