Aafrin Kidwai
Ramky Enviro Engineers (REEL) has entered into a seven-year contract with the Greater Chennai Corporation to design and implement an IOT-enabled solid waste collection programme. The Hyderabad-based company said it will cover four zones in…
Aafrin Kidwai
In October 2020, UAE-based Averda launched its India operations in Amritsar. The company is involved in waste collection, transportation, treatment, disposal, and a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant is also under construction. Averda hopes this will be…
Aafrin Kidwai
North Delhi Municipal Corporation has a new material recovery facility. Constructed under Zakhira Flyover, the facility can process up to 8 tonnes of waste per day. “Mechanised machinery, such as bailers, conveyor belt, and material…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Supreme Court has cleared the contruction of a state-of-the-art waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Agra which was pending for four years. This is the first WtE plant to be built in Uttar Pradesh. According to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) passed a budget of Rs 1499.85 crore for the financial year 2021-22 focused on infrastructure development including recycling plants for controlling air pollution, sweeping machines, among other things. “We have two…
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In an attempt to better Bengaluru’s ranking in Swachh Survekshan 2021 survey, the BBMP’s Solid Waste Management (SWM) Department will attempt to beautify 100 black spots in Bengaluru, within 45 days. “As a part of…
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The Goa government has received three bids for the setting up of the Rs 200 crore solid waste management facility at Bainguinim. The companies that have expressed interest are Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt Ltd, Maaviya Engineering…
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The ITC Grand Chola Hotel, Chennai was awarded the ‘Swachh Hotel’ award as part of Swachh Survekshan 2021 by the Greater Chennai Corporation, for its sustained initiatives in solid waste management. “We wanted to recognise…
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The Madurai Corporation is struggling with bulk waste generators that have failed to comply with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, which mandate setting up composting units to process their biodegradable waste. A total of…
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The Mayor of Srinagar Mr Junaid Azim Mattu held a meeting with the Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Mr Hardeep Puri to discuss various issues related to the improvisation of solid waste management in…
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Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has approved the establishment of an integrated solid waste management project by the National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED). The Jammu Municipal Corporation will sign an agreement with NAFED…
Aafrin Kidwai
The police is investigating fire-related incidents at five Dry Waste Collection Centres in Bengaluru.According to Ms Nalini Sekhar of Hasiru Dala, miscreants destroyed DWCCs at Marathahalli, Gottigere, Ganesh Mandira, Kumaraswamy Layout and JP Nagar between…
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The BMC is planning to erect a boundary wall near Thane creek with the help of synthetic vinyl sheets to prevent the discharge of hazardous leachate generated from Deonar dumping ground. The wall is also…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) has set a tariff of ₹6.81/kWh without considering accelerated depreciation and ₹6.31/kWh with accelerated depreciation for procurement of power from a 6 MW municipal solid waste (MSW) project…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is frequently in the news for its various waste management-related initiatives. Be it the controversy over its proposed Waste to Energy (WtE) projects, to a new agency dedicated to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has fined beverage makers Coke and Pepsi and bottled water maker Bisleri for violation in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) filings related to the collection and disposal of plastic waste. …
Aafrin Kidwai
A Comprehensive Solid Waste Management plant has been inaugurated at the expansive Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) Township in Mumbai. The newly inaugurated, 10 MT/Day SWM plant is designed as per SWM Rules 2016 based…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation has, once again, released a tender for its controversial integrated municipal solid waste processing plant at Harsul. The last date for submitting the tender is March 16 and involves the design,…
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Punjab has achieved almost 100 per cent door-to-door collection and segregation of municipal solid waste, Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan has said. The Chief Secretary said that the state would intensify its efforts for the management…
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Ranchi Municipal Corporation is all set to sign an MoU with Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) for the construction of two biomethanation units. The MoU is reportedly being signed for a period of 22…
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The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra has said that it would provide land to all municipal councils and nagar panchayats for solid waste management. The announcement was made by Maharashtra Revenue Minister Balasaheb…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-I) to develop a module on Solid Waste Management strategy for replicating the Indore model of cleanliness…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nashik civic administration has said that solid waste management and scientific disposal of waste has improved in the city. Municipal commissioner Kailas Jadhav told The Times of India that segregation of dry and wet…
Aafrin Kidwai
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal presented the civic body’s budget for the financial year (FY) 2021-22 on Wednesday. ₹627 crore has been earmarked for the solid waste management department of Mumbai. The…
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The 15th Finance Commission (FC) has recommended a grant of around Rs 1.56 lakh crore to urban local bodies. This is a huge increase from the previous allocation of around Rs 87,000 crore which was…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials for poor management of waste in the city, despite repeated timelines and assistance. At a review meeting, where Karnataka State Pollution…
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In 2006, Ahmedabad-based Sandeep Patel launched his waste management business. By his own admission, the initial years were tough, but Sandeep persisted. Fifteen years later, Nepra Waste Management Pvt. Ltd. finds itself among India’s largest and most reputed dry…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the NCT Delhi and the Municipal Corporations concerned to coordinate and execute the work of remediating the legacy waste dump sites for enforcing the rule of law and…
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As the issues between the Municipal Corporation (MC) and A2Z Waste Management have not been resolved, the MC is likely to handle the solid waste management itself after February 4. Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu said…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is at liberty to recover a penalty from the concerned authorities for continuing environmental damage. A committee comprising the CPCB, National…
Aafrin Kidwai
In her Union Budget 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had a major announcement related to Swachh Bharat 2.0. The FM said that the government will focus on complete fecal sludge management, wastewater treatment, segregation of…
Aafrin Kidwai
Delhi’s three landfills at Bhalswa, Okhla and Ghazipur have collectively caused nearly Rs 450 crore in damage to the environment, as calculated by a committee comprising National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Central Pollution Control Board…
Aafrin Kidwai
Cities across the world are looking for solutions to the mountains of waste created over several years but often lack the relevant data to decide on the most ideal solutions. Reliable and city specific data,…
Aafrin Kidwai
Ambala’s Cantonment area has a new solid waste management plant. The new plant was inaugurated at a cost of about Rs 70 lakh during the weekend. The plant has been set up based on zero…
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The burning of plastic waste is primarily responsible for haze and fog formation in northern India, including the national capital Delhi, according to a study led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras…
Aafrin Kidwai
The preliminary report of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) related to the January 23 fire incident at Ramtedki, the 75 metric tonne garbage collection and processing plant, estimates a loss of ₹1.40 crore. The damage assessment of…
Aafrin Kidwai
A2Z Infrastructure has issued a public notice informing Ludhiana residents that the company will not be providing services including waste collection and processing after February 4. Last week, the company had served a self-termination notice…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Central Pollution Control Board has filed its compliance report to the National Green Tribunal on scientific disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) during the COVID pandemic. Some of the highlights of the report, titled Scientific…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, once again, come down heavily on the Kerala government over the continued ineffective solid waste management of Kochi’s Brahmapuram waste plant, stating that the administration failed in protecting citizens’…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has directed Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat to pay Rs 8 lakh as compensation for improper solid waste management, causing damage to the environment. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed…
Aafrin Kidwai
Jammu city is in the midst of upgrading its waste management system, including manpower training, infrastructure, and machinery. We spoke with Municipal Commissioner Ms Avny Lavasa for information on the civic body’s various efforts. Given…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in the dock for allegedly conducting waste processing at its Bhuasuni yard without valid authorization from the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB). An inspection by the SPCB’s regional office…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has released a global Expression of Interest (EoI) for setting up a 1800 TPD Waste to Energy (WtE) plant and disposal facility on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) is carrying out a drone survey of the Bandhwari landfill site to demarcate land for a proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) plant, to kick off construction later this year. The survey…
Aafrin Kidwai
`Mo Khata’ or ‘My Compost’ generated from waste and sold at various designated outlets across Odisha’s urban areas is generating an encouraging response. As many as 110 of the 114 urban local bodies (ULBs) in…
Aafrin Kidwai
The competition to earn higher rankings in Swacch Survekshan 2021 is heating up. Various municipalities are deploying different strategies to motivate residents to segregate waste-at-source. Here’s how two of them are dealing with the issue:…
Aafrin Kidwai
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to set up an integrated Waste To Energy (WtE) plant in outer Delhi. As part of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued directions for the implementation of E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 after observing that there were huge gaps in the compliance by the State Pollution Control…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure strict compliance of the Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016. It also asked CPCB to ensure that the compensation regime is…
Aafrin Kidwai
Determined to raise their scores in Swacch Survekshan 2021 (SS-21), various municipalities across the country are actively promoting their waste management efforts through various IEC (Information, Education, Communication) initiatives in the city and via social…
