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Trichy corporation has put out a tender to find an agency to manage solid waste management (SWM) in its 65 wards for three years. The chosen agency will use battery-operated vehicles to collect waste door-to-door…
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Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha has shared details of plastic waste generated in the country during the…
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The Kerala High Court has observed that all rules for solid waste management were violated at the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant in Kochi. It has ordered the Kochi Municipal Corporation to produce contract documents and…
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Kia India has launched a plastic waste management program in association with the India Pollution Control Association (IPCA). The goal is to instill a sense of social responsibility among people so that efficient material recovery…
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Waste collection has resumed in Kochi after a massive fire at the Brahmapuram waste management plant caused a halt in operations for almost ten days. However, many areas still have piles of garbage, causing health…
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In Kerala, a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan decided not to transport plastic to the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant and to treat organic waste at the source instead. The Kochi corporation will collect…
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The Secretary of the Kochi Municipal Corporation appeared before the Kerala High Court to inform the court that the fire at the Brahmapuram garbage dump and waste plant would be completely put out soon. The…
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Union Minister Mr Hardeep Singh Puri has launched Swachhotsav, a three-week women-led swachhata campaign, under the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0. The campaign aims to recognize and celebrate the transition from women in sanitation to women-led sanitation. A…
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A helicopter carrying former Karnataka chief minister and senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa faced difficulty in landing due to plastic sheets and waste on the helipad ground on Monday in Kalaburagi. A viral video showed the chopper…
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Waste collected in Kochi has been temporarily suspended as city authorities focus on containing the impact of the fire at the Brahmapuram waste management plant late last week. Waste collection was suspended since under the…
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Tata Motors has unveiled its first registered vehicle scrapping facility in India – Re.Wi.Re or Recycle with Respect in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It has a capacity of scrapping 15,000 vehicles each year. The facility has been…
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Pune-based SWaCH has released a new report profiling waste generation and recovery by waste pickers in the city. Waste from 70% of Pune’s households is collected by the waste pickers of SWaCH, within the framework…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation plans to privatize solid waste management in Royapuram and Thiru Vi Ka Nagar and is set to call for tenders in March. A consultant has been appointed to study the collection…
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Two companies in Ahmedabad, Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) and Nepra Resource Management Private Limited (NRML), are investing heavily in waste management and recycling in Ahmedabad. ACEL has already invested Rs 500 crore in the…
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Japan-based JFE Engineering Ltd will offer technical assistance for the upcoming waste-to-energy facility in Kozhikode. Sharing the news on his social media, Chief Minister Mr Pinarayi Vijayan said the company has experience building more than…
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The Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), Mr PC Meena, has asked civic body officials to provide daily updates on waste processing on the MCG website. He also said that the capacity of…
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Following the success of the pilot projects in Worli and Khar, the BMC has now begun collecting dry and wet waste separately in each of the city’s 24 administrative wards. Daily wet waste collection will…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has identified projects for biomining, non-motorized transportation, sewage treatment, urban forestry, solid waste management, and rooftop solar panels in order to begin making money from the trading of carbon credits on…
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In a major effort to reduce waste contamination and promote greener cities, 14 more Madhya Pradesh districts will construct bio-remediation facilities. The projects are estimated to cost roughly Rs 44 crore. “Bio-remediation will be used…
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Delhi civic officials have seized about 7,000 kilograms of single-use plastic (SUP) in the city as part of a 100-day program this month. The maximum amount (1,263 kg) of SUP has been seized from Shahdara…
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Addressing participants at a workshop in Chandigarh, Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav commended the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to substantially bring down the paddy farm fire counts during…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has announced that it will build a facility to treat 100 tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D) waste each day. The civic body has issued a tender to select a company…
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The Delhi government has been ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to pay Rs 3,132 crore in environmental compensation for shortcomings in managing solid and liquid waste.The NGT ruling states that the payment, which…
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The construction of Urban Extension Road (UER) II in New Delhi, which the authorities also refer to as the third ring road of the national capital, will require close to 4 lakh metric tonnes (MT)…
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Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed Lok Sabha about the enforcement of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, including a ban on identified single-use plastic (SUP) items,…
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The Goa government has announced plans to build two 5 TPD biomethanation plants in the municipal councils of Ponda and Valpoi with a total investment of over Rs 5.5 million. The waste produced in these…
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Finland-based “Clean Tech” will take over waste management in key cities of Uttar Pradesh, including Lucknow. The state government and Clean Tech recently signed an MoU to this effect. The corporation may potentially establish a…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has earmarked Rs 118 crore for the management of solid waste in the upcoming financial year, the highest amount under the capital expenditure segment of the ULB’s budget. Out of the…
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The Kerala local self-government department (LSGD) plans to modernize 53 dumpsites in Kerala, including the one at Brahmapuram. The department has already reclaimed roughly 45 acres of land by clearing 22 dumpsites. According to officials,…
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Antony Waste Handling Cell Limited declared that its wholly owned subsidiary AG Enviro Infra Projects Private Limited has received a contract for Rs 1024 crore for the collection, transportation, processing, and disposal of construction and…
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After a prolonged delay, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) launched the procurement process for an integrated solid waste management project in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. This project will help address the problem of…
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The jacket worn by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament on Wednesday, made of recycled plastic bottles, will be available in major cities of India, within three months. Mr SM Vaidya, Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) informed that the jacket will…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing 90 projects under its Waste to Energy program. Union Minister of Power Mr. R K Singh informed the Lok Sabha that these projects include 7 biogas…
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The 11th edition of International Plastics Exhibition PLASTINDIA 2023, now the world’s largest plastic exhibition, concluded in Delhi on Sunday. The 5-day conference (Feb 1 to 5) witnessed a footfall of 3.60 lakh visitors. One…
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Union Minister for Civil Aviation and Steel Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia said that Central Government stands firm on its commitment to the material recycling industry. Today the recycling industry contributes almost 10,000 crores to India’s GST…
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The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board has warned the state’s urban bodies and department about the increasing number of landfills polluting the state. More than 190,000 tonnes of garbage is piled up in 15…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Engineers India Limited to develop Waste to Energy (WTE) and bio-methanation projects in cities with a population of million…
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“Enhanced focus will be provided for scientific management of dry and wet waste,” said Finance Minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing a 150-per cent hike in the outlay of the Swacch Bharat Mission, with an…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting Union Budget 2023-24 in Parliament, has announced that 500 new ‘waste to wealth’ plants under the GOBARDHAN scheme will be established. Of these plants, 200 will be compressed biogas (CBG) plants,…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will purchase 20 baling press machines to process the city’s plastic waste. The machines will be supplied, operated, and maintained by a Maharashtra-based company. The BMC is investing approximately Rs…
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From February 1 to March 31, all urban local bodies in Uttar Pradesh have been asked to work on the 3Ps strategy – pray, persuade, penalize – to enforce doorstep segregation of dry and wet…
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The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) issued short-term tenders for waste collection and transportation from the city’s 243 wards, which have 42 lakh households and commercial buildings. BSWML floated the tender for the second…
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The Gurugram Municipal Corporation (MCG) has decided to redevelop 32 designated secondary waste dumping points throughout the city to ensure that only segregated waste is dumped there. According to officials, the civic body will also…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever (HUL) have announced the launch of an Inclusive Circular Economy project, which focuses on the end-to-end management of plastic waste by promoting the segregation…
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The Tamil Nadu government has granted its permission to the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to carry out biomining at the Kodungaiyur dump yard. It is expected to cost Rs 641 crore and construction is expected to begin…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has declined to impose a Rs 750-crore environmental penalty on the Jharkhand government for improper solid and liquid waste management. The tribunal also noted the state government’s commitment to allocating…
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The state’s first integrated plant to process a variety of hazardous wastes has been approved. It will be built in the villages of Kansal and Hendavli in Raigad. The Union environment ministry has given in-principle…
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No Time To Waste (NTTW) is an initiative by SolidWasteIndia and Theistic Business Consultants towards bringing together all stakeholders in the waste management ecosystem on a common platform. Through a series of regional virtual roundtable…
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Ahead of the Union Budget, the Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has asked the government to set up a Rs 1000 crore fund to promote the use of fermented organic manure (FOM) in agriculture. According to…
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Webel, West Bengal’s nodal agency for the development of the electronics and IT industries, is developing a comprehensive plan to manage electronic waste (e-waste) in the state, including the possibility of establishing a waste processing…
