Aafrin Kidwai
Policy Advocacy Research Center (PARC) is seeking inputs on issues concerning the waste sector from various stakeholders within solid waste management (SWM). These inputs will contribute towards a policy report addressing the various challenges and…
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Garbage and civic problems are mounting for the residents of Central, East, North and part of West Nagpur as the indefinite strike by workers of door-to-door garbage collection firm enters its third day. Over 850…
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Legacy waste at Bengaluru’s Mandur landfill site will be cleared after the biannual Aero-India show next month. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has got approval from the government and bidding has started to start…
Aafrin Kidwai
Inadequate resources, insufficient land for waste disposal, lack of integrated solid waste management plan, limited public unawareness, shortage of staff, absence of incorporation of modern technology, and poor enforcement of rules and regulations are some…
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After several delays, Aurangabad’s solid waste processing plant at Padegaon was inaugurated over the weekend by Minister Subhash Desai. Mr Desai said that CM Uddhav Thackeray has been working to resolve the city’s SWM problems,…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests to finalise the “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) regime for plastic waste within three months saying that steps taken by it were “too slow”.…
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The Goa government has extended the time limit for accepting bids for the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim by 15 days. This has happened for the third time since only one bidder showed interest…
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With its contract with SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling) coming to an end, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to outsource waste management in the city to private entities. The decision came after…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has terminated the contract of more than 740 sanitation workers without any prior notice, reports Newsclick.in. Another 2,200 workers could face the same fate. The termination comes after the GCC…
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The Orissa government has asked district collectors and urban local bodies across the state to to identify all rag pickers and involve them in the works of MCCs and material recovery facilities (MRFs) so that…
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The second edition of the Janaagraha City Governance Awards was held online on Tuesday, presided by Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri. Delivering the keynote address, Mr Puri described how cooperative…
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The Pune civic administration has announced that it will stop collecting garbage from the premises of bulk waste generators that fail to comply with the norm of processing wet waste at the source by March-end. …
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In a bid to improve its Swacch Survekshan ranking, Pune Municipal Corporation has deployed sanitary inspectors for night patrolling in order to fine citizens throwing garbage in violation of the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016.…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has refloated tenders for the centralised waste-to-energy plant of 300 tonnes per day capacity to be implemented on public-private partnership (PPP) mode at Brahmapuram. Tenders were refloated after…
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Waste segregated at source in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) limits has touched 33%, the highest-ever in the city. As per the latest figures, the civic body has collected 1,333 tonnes per day (TPD)…
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The Kerala government has allotted two acres of land at Kadungalloor for setting up a solid waste treatment plant. This is expected to contribute to the efficient disposal of plastic waste and waste generated from…
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The Huballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is considering biomining at the dumping yards of the twin cities on Karwar Road in Hubballi (17 acres) and at Hosayallpur in Dharwad (16 acres). According to a survey conducted…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has observed that plastic pens are covered under the meaning of “plastic” as provided in Rule 3(o) of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2018 and therefore, they are also covered…
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In one of the first such initiatives in the country, a company under the Kerala government has fixed base prices for variants of recyclable, non-biodegradable waste. The move by the Clean Kerala Company Limited (CKCL),…
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The Municipal Corporation of Amritsar (MCA) will bioremediate an estimated 10 lakh metric tonne of legacy waste at Bhagtanwala to reclaim the land, and set up a waste to energy plant to be built and…
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The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has signed a joint development agreement with Blue Planet Environmental Solutions India Private Limited. Blue Planet Environmental Solutions has created an integrated waste management ecosystem and its technologies have…
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Andhra Pradesh’s newly appointed Municipal Administration and Urban Development principal secretary Y Srilakshmi has directed the Guntur administration to ensure the completion of the Jindal waste-to-energy plant at the earliest, reports The Times of India.…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has deployed “plug and key” units for dry waste segregation in the city. The new units installed on vehicles with different types of mesh attached with a conveyor belt will…
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The Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) in Thane district has applied to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), seeking its nod to implement a project to produce fuel from plastic waste. The civic body said the move…
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Mailhem Group and Nashik Waste Management will be jointly involved in executing India’s second-largest project on converting municipal solid waste to compressed biogas for the Bhopal Municipal Corporation. The project has received a Rs 10…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) is planning to hand over its garbage processing plant to a private player for upgrading the machinery and managing the plant. A senior MC official said that they are planning…
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Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has made a beginning to make the city dustbin-free. As part of it, the civic body has removed dumper bins in 20 per cent of the city area where door-to-door…
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Ramky Enviro has bagged a tender to manage waste collection and transportation in the north Chennai. Starting February, the company will be incharge of waste collection and transportation in Thiruvotriyur, Manali, Madhavaram and Ambattur zones.…
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Greater Chennai Corporation has planned to install three more incinerators in the city.Recently, the civic body called for tenders to supply, install and commission incinerators in Ambattur, Ayanavaram and Kodungaiyur. These incinerators will be able…
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Ghaziabad municipal corporation (GMC) has announced additional funds for solid waste management in the city. Corporation officials informed The Hindustan Times that Rs 60.5 crore will be devoted towards solid waste management. An additional Rs…
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In an attempt to streamline the management of waste, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is chalking out plans to set up dry waste processing units in the city, reports Yo Vizag. The civic body…
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Four more trommel machines will be deployed at the Bhalswa landfill site to process the waste at a greater speed, says North Delhi mayor Jai Prakash. The mountainous dump in northwest Delhi is one of the…
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Goa’s Waste Management minister, Mr Michael Lobo, has said that the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute will soon sign an agreement for undertaking feasibility studies to set up a…
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A day after announcing it will implement a user fee for garbage collection from January 1, 2021, the Greater Chennai Corporation has decided to roll back its decision. The announcement was made following a request…
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A2Z Waste Management has served a notice to the Ludhiana civic body regarding termination of their contract. A2Z wants to exit the project and has given 45 days notice to the civic body. February 4…
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The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has directed all premises, including residential and commercial units producing more than 50 kgs of daily waste, to segregate waste at source into biodegradable, non-biodegradable and domestic hazardous waste. It…
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Gujarat based company Varun Constructions has been awarded the contract for setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) site at Dadumajra for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. Work is expected to…
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Building owners within the Greater Chennai Corporation will have to pay user charges to the civic body for garbage removal from January 1 as per Solid Waste Management Rules, 2019. The move to collect user…
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Hospitals in Pune are upset over the large bills they have attracted for disposing of COVID-19 waste during the last few months, with some even threatening to go to court over the matter. Several hospitals…
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The Guntur Municipal Corporation’s (GMC) project is running at least 100 of its vehicles including dumpers, tractors, mini compactors, and autos on synthetic fuel produced from plastic waste. The plant started production three months ago…
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Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is establishing two new solid waste treatment and recycling plants to handle city waste. The two plants will come up at Kesare and Rayanakere, as planned nearly five years ago. The plant at…
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India collected just 10 per cent of the electronic waste (e-waste) estimated to have been generated in the country during 2018-19 and 3.5 per cent of e-waste generated in 2017-18, according to a recent report by…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has begun pasting unique QR codes outside homes in the city to monitor the door-to-door waste collection system. The civic body’s target is to cover 2.50 lakh households in the…
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Steel major Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) is earning more than Rs 550 crore revenue annually by selling its solid wastes. Apart from earning this huge amount, the company is also saving around Rs 250-280 crore…
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Urbaser Sumeet, appointed by the Greater Chennai Corporation to carry out conservancy works in Chennai, has employed a conservancy team comprising only women in division 199 (Uthandi) in Sholinganallur zone. The division has a team…
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The municipal corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has asked concessionaire Ecogreen to submit its plan for reclamation of land for the Bhandwari landfill site in order to build a waste to energy (WtE) plant at the…
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Hectic preparations are underway for the sixth edition of the India International Science Festival (IISF) to be held online from December 22 to 25, 2020. IISF is organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology and…
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With preparations underway for the COVID-19 vaccination program across India, the Union Health Ministry has prepared guidelines for safer disposal of used injections. Health experts opine that it will probably create a large amount of syringe…
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Antony Waste Handling Cell has decided to launch its maiden initial public offering worth Rs 300 crores on December 21. The public issue is scheduled to be closed on December 23, as per the information…
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Sweden-based H&M Foundation and Social Alpha have joined hands to launch “Techtonic – Innovations in Waste Management”, a nationwide mission to identify and curate locally designed, disruptive innovations addressing problems in waste management and improving the…
