Aafrin Kidwai
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed that construction projects which generate more than 20 tonne of waste daily will have to set up a recycling plant where the waste will be converted into aggregates…
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Huhtamaki, a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, has partnered with RiverRecycle and VTT to develop technology to tackle floating river waste in Mumbai. The new river waste collection…
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The Chennai Corporation has fined individuals for dumping waste illegally in the Perungudi lake and surrounding areas. Civic body officials conducted an inspection in the area and a total of 21 persons were found dumping…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh each on three waste-to-energy (WtE) plants and a construction and demolition waste processing plant for contributing to air pollution. The East…
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Legacy waste continues to be a serious problem and it is high time such sites are cleared and solid waste collected is disposed of scientifically, the National Green Tribunal has said. Legacy waste has the potential to…
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Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has released a study assessing how transparent state pollution control boards (PCBs) are, in terms of putting out environmental and governance information into the public domain. The study…
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pointed out that the management of solid waste by the urban local bodies (ULBs) in Himachal Pradesh was ineffective in controlling waste disposal in a scientific…
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Secunderabad has acquired several ‘swachh auto tippers’ (SAT) in a bid to ramp up door-to-door waste collection. These SAT vehicles will collect municipal solid waste (MSW) across the Secunderabad Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) zone. …
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Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) generated electricity by processing approximately 15,000 tons of plastic waste during the fiscal year 2018-19 (Apr-Mar), according to the company’s annual report. In addition, HUL collected and safely disposed of approximately…
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Maharashtra generated the highest volume of biomedical waste (BMW) in the country between June 2020 and June 2021, according to a recent document submitted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in Lok…
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, which prohibits identified single use plastic items which have low utility and high littering potential by 2022. The…
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Following some uncertainties, the Pune civic body has said it will extend its contract with SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling). There is some resistance from certain groups which claim that it is wrong to…
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Kerala’s Brahmapuram solid waste management plant never ceases to be in the news. This time, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Kochi corporation to file a status report on the solid waste treatment…
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Awareness and capacity building Decentralised resource recovery Improvement of disposal site operations Circular investments These are the four action areas in solid waste management for Mangaluru, as identified by the UN Habitat using its proprietary…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has launched a loan interest subvention scheme in association with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) to provide financial assistance for innovative waste to energy bio-methanation projects. As…
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The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) plans to involve waste picker organizations for segregation activity at waste unloading sites. The corporation has invited Expression of Interest (EOI) seeking response from registered waste picker organizations…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has, once again, floated a tender for setting up of the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim. The project has been delayed repeatedly after no company qualified when the…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Solid Waste Department has turned its attention to Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste, which was being dumped haphazardly across the city. The PMC has started debris collection centres in 10…
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Following general feedback from the public, the Greater Chennai Corporation plans to complete all cleaning and maintenance work in the city at night-time. This is intended to prevent traffic disruption and inconvenience to the public.…
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Geocycle India, the in-house waste management arm of Ambuja Cements Limited and ACC Limited, has co-processed about 2 million tons of waste and achieved a TSR of 6% in 2021, according to a press release…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is working towards the bio-remediation and reclamation of landfill area at Bandhwari. The site will be cleared at an estimated Rs 16 crore within a month. It will then…
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Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Mr Kaushal Kishore has shared that Himachal Pradesh and Goa are the two states in the country which are processing the highest amount of 98% of the…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has revealed its earnings from composting in the last three months: Rs 1.59 lakh. The income was generated through the sale of compost generated at the Bhandewadi dumping yard. In…
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In Ludhiana, local authorities have started to crackdown on plastic-bag use. 125 kg plastic bags were confiscated by municipal teams during raids at markets in Ludhiana’s Field Ganj, Khud Mohalla, Baba Than Singh Chowk and…
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Dilapidated windrow composting sheds, overflowing leachate, blocked drains, fresh waste dumped over legacy waste. These are some of the scenes at the Brahmapuram dumpsite, as reported by a State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) appointed by…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has awarded the work of preparation of a detailed project report (DPR) and a Request for Proposal (RfP) for the upgradation of a solid waste processing plant in Dadumajra, Sector 25,…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is planning to hand over collection of certain non-recyclable wastes such as thermacol and rexine to the Clean Kerala Company Ltd. In the absence of an official collection mechanism by the Corporation,…
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India generated 10,14,961.2 tonnes of e-waste in 2020, which is a 31.6 per cent increase from 2019, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed the Rajya Sabha earlier this…
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CNIM MARTIN Private Limited (CMPL), the Asian subsidiary of CNIM and MARTIN, has signed a contract for the supply of the main components of the WtE plant to be built in Songkhla Province, Thailand for…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has announced strict action against bulk waste generators who fail to manage their wet waste on-site. The MCC has declared a three-month deadline for all bulk generators to start processing…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced it will implement the SWM Rules 2016 strictly once again. Rules were relaxed since March owing to a sharp rises in cases during the second wave of the…
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The plastic manufacturers and traders’ association in Ludhiana has announced yet another agitation against the state government’s decision to impose a plastic ban starting August 1. In 2016, the state government had announced a ban…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched weekly door-to-door collection of electronic waste (e-waste). The drive is being conducted to avoid the mixing of municipal solid waste with e-waste at the household level. The e-waste…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) is planning to install CCTV cameras at garbage black spots in the city to catch offenders. The state government has approved the BBMP’s plans to install 2415 CCTVs at,…
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The Kochi Corporation Council has given its green signal to Zonta Infratech for carrying out biomining of legacy waste at the Brahmapuram dumpsite. The council also decided to hand over 20 acres at Brahmapuram to…
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Over a week after a major fire incident at the Bandhwari landfill in Gurugram, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said there appear to be serious lapses and continued failure on the part of the…
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A notice has been issued to the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation by the Punjab and Haryana high court following a public interest litigation (PIL). The PIL has been filed by city resident seeking over air pollution…
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Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has announced plans for two recycling plants to treat floral and e-waste at Mutyalampadu and Ajith Singh Nagar. The city generates 15 tonnes of floral waste and seven tonne of electronic…
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Varanasi will have a new Waste to Energy (WtE) plant based on torrefaction technology, with a capacity of 600 tpd waste. The plant is expected to be commissioned in Ramna area by September next year. India’s…
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Two new waste facilities were inaugurated at separate locations in Jammu last week. Katra has a new organic waste convertor and Material Recovery, reports news agency UNI. It has a capacity of 200 kg per…
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Ghaziabad has announced it will remove about 600,000 metric tonnes of legacy waste at two landfill sites by early next year. The Pratap Vihar landfill site has nearly 450,000 metric tonnes of waste, while Indirapuram…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) has asked bulk waste generators to segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste on their premises. Failure to do so by a fixed time limit will lead to a penalty. As…
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Chandigarh’s civic authorities have decided to upgrade the solid waste processing plant in Sector 25 (Dadumajra) to a Waste to Energy plant. The decision was taken after a year of research and visits to other…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has announced it will close over 70 open dumping points in the city, following complaints by residents. At present, workers dump waste collected from various localities at designated points across the…
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A recent study by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found significant mismatch in government data on COVID-19 biomedical waste and infrastructure for managing this hazardous waste. Mr Atin Biswas, programme director, Solid…
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Agricultural cooperative NAFED has laid the foundation stone of a municipal solid waste (MSW) processing plant of 350 tpd capacity in Jammu. Expected to cost Rs 80 crore, the project is expected to be completed…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced plans to set up a 200MT waste processing plant for the 23 villages recently included in the PMC urban agglomeration. The PMC will receive Rs 200 crore from the…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to procure 1,350 Swachh Auto Tippers (SATs) to pick up waste from households. The GHMC has invited requests for a proposal to supply and deliver 1,350 SATs…
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The closure of the Mulund dumping ground in Mumbai is delayed once again, ostensibly due to a shortage of labourers during the lockdown during pandemic and the monsoon. Mulund has Mumbai’s second largest dumping ground…
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Mahindra Waste to Energy Solutions Limited (MWTESL) was established by the Mahindra Group in 2017 to focus on converting municipal solid waste to BioCNG. Since 2018, Mr. Palaniappan P, as CEO of MWTESL, has led the…
