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The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) will soon put into action its plan to transform waste generated in the twin cities into torrefied charcoal that will be used at thermal power plants in lieu of fossil…
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Dubai-based Averda has completed a share sale and purchase of Amritsar MSW Limited. It will now undertake various environmental services for waste management in Amritsar, including municipal solid waste management, waste to energy and recycling.…
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The Kerala government’s decision to re-tender its waste-to-energy plants in eight districts, including Ernakulam, has kicked up a row. The decision to entrust the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) with the re-tendering work too…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is adding 650 more Swachh Auto Tippers (SAT) to the present fleet of 2,500 SATs to implement better door-to-door waste segregation. Each SAT will cover 400 to 800 households…
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In 2014, Zonta installed its first set of 300 semi-underground bins in India. Ever since, their clientele for this exclusive product, manufactured in Bengaluru, has expanded to over 20 cities and sales continue to grow.…
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A panel set up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the municipal corporation to fully implement the segregation of waste collected from door to door in Chandigarh by October 31, reports The Hindustan…
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The newly posted commissioner of Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) Cheechung Chukhu has said garbage management will be his priority. In a recent media interaction, he said innovative ideas are needed to address the growing problem…
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In a bid to ensure effective waste management in the city and hold the municipal authorities accountable, the Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) has initiated a six-crore project called Solid Waste Management Vehicle Tracking and…
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A Jalandhar-based firm has been allotted the contract to construct a solid waste management plant, 10 km from the Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Ambala Cantonment. The Cantonment Board will provide the land to…
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In a trend seen in many other parts of the country, Gurugram has reported that segregation of food waste from Covid waste is not being done at most households in home isolation or at isolation…
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The Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has undertaken the work of clearing the debris off the Adharwadi dumping ground and levelling it after which the work of development of a garden will begin. KDMC…
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The NGT has expressed dissatisfaction regarding the management of legacy wastes in West Bengal. The bench has described the capping of the mountain of legacy wastes without biomining as illegal according to the solid waste…
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Speaking on the occasion of the Swachchata Diwas, Minister of State – MoHUA, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, underlined the importance paid to urban spaces by the Modi government. Mr Puri said the greatest success of…
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The Swachhata Ke 6 Saal Bemisaal event on the occasion of sixth anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) on Gandhi Jayanti in New Delhi today is focussing on the experiences of various states and…
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Following a directive by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) earlier in February this year, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has recommended setting up a pilot fine pulverization unit to manage the potential environmental risk…
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Waste segregation at source (WSS) will be uniformly implemented in all 60-wards of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) from October 2. Following a pilot run, authorities have decided to go ahead with their plans. They will…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has filed its Action Taken Report (ATR) in compliance with a National Green Tribunal order dated May 20, 2020. The matter relates to the management of construction and demolition (C&D)…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) dismissed an appeal filed by the Bainguinim Citizens Forum against the environmental clearance (EC) granted to the Solid Waste Management Facility at Bainguinim taluka in North Goa. The Goa Waste Management…
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The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has issued a tender to outsource door-to-door garbage collection and transportation services to a private agency. CCP has categorised the work in two packages – wet waste…
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Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is planning to implement a decentralised waste management system for proper disposal of solid waste in residential sectors of Greater Noida. Five clusters will be formed across all sectors…
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The BBMP has called for expression of interest for setting up domestic hazardous waste facilities in the city. Mr Randeep, special commissioner, solid waste management, BBMP, informed The Deccan Herald that while waste is segregated…
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The Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) will be setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) at Dadumajra for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. Spread over 8 acres, the site will be…
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As much as 74 per cent of municipal solid waste generated in cities and towns of Gujarat was dumped without any processing during five-year period of 2014-19, says a report tabled by the Comptroller and…
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The Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) has initiated a call for proposals under its Waste Management Technologies (WMT) Program. Launched in 2015, in accordance with the Swachh Bharath Abhiyan, the program…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has invited bids for setting up a solid waste processing facility at Bainguinim with a processing capacity of 250 tonnes per day. The plant, estimated to cost Rs 200…
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Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation for an end to single-use plastics in India, the government had acted with alacrity and announced a phasing out of such plastics by 2022. However, it has now backtracked…
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Trials to produce electricity from waste has begun at the solid waste management plant at Bhariyal, located on the outskirts of Shimla. Around two-kilowatt power is being produced during the trials every day. The waste-to-energy…
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Visakhapatnam is one among the four cities selected for the PM’s Excellence Awardunder the Swachh Bharat Mission’s Urban Category based on the semi-underground bin system implemented under Smart City. Supplied by Bengaluru-based Zonta Infratech, the…
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The Uttarakhand government has set a one-year deadline to dispose of around 28 lakh metric tonnes of ‘legacy waste’ that has been piling up over 20 years. The state government is planning to treat the…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, in association with several non-profit organisations, has deployed a network of rag pickers in three wards, for door-to-door collection of dry waste. In a month’s time, about 38 wards will…
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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has that announced Prof Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), GoI and Mr. R.P Gupta, Secretary, MoEF&CC will be addressing the inaugural session of its International Waste to Worth…
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The COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted the plastic recycling value chain owing to extended lockdowns and movement restrictions, as per a study commissioned by Circulate Capital, carried out by GA Circular, to understand challenges faced…
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Disposal of biomedical waste including PPE kits worn by healthcare professionals, and public became a challenge during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Union Health Ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Sunday. “As informed by Central…
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The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is all set to set up five more dry waste collection centres to process and reuse dry waste, near stationary compactor stations in the twin cities. HDMC had set up a…
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The Panvel Municipal Corporation has made it mandatory for housing societies to segregate waste at source as the capacity of the Taloja dumping ground is likely to soon get over soon. The ghanta gadi will…
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The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, has told the Kerala government that it may consider imprisonment of bureaucrats who fail to comply with its orders seeking action against those responsible…
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Two consortiums have submitted their technical and financial bids for the Waste to Energy project in Brahmapuram. These include: Zonta Infratech Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru; Zonta Bauer Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Bauer GmbH, Germany; CNIM Martin Pvt.…
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The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that landfill-pit is not a ‘plant and machinery’ but a ‘civil-structure’. The ruling was made in the case of the applicant, M/S Mother Earth Environ Tech…
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Following the NGT’s July order observing that slow progress was being made in the Brahmapuram Waste to Energy (WtE) plant project, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has assured the NGT that the plant…
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East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has employed 12 trommel machines to clear 2,400 tonnes of legacy waste at the Ghazipur landfill every day. East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir personally visited the site and shared a…
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The Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) has decided to install cameras in Buddha Nullah and Sidhwan Canal to rein in litterbugs dumping the garbage. They will upload the violators’ videos or pictures on their Facebook page.…
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Leachate from Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg dumpyard and stagnant water have killed fish over a two-hectare mangrove forests’ area an environmentalist group has said, filing complaints with various state bodies and the Bombay high court-appointed wetland grievance…
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The Centre for Science and Environment has released a comprehensive background paper on plastic waste management in India. Titled Managing Plastic Waste in India: Challenges and Agenda, this is CSE’s first document aimed at understanding…
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Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related biomedical waste generated on an average was about 169 tonnes per day for the month of August 2020, Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kr Choubey said in the…
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The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has resolved to approve the proposal of the Goa Waste Management Corporation for the installation of seven modular garbage treatment machines at Sonsoddo. The seven machines with a capacity of…
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The Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in a scientific manner including processing waste –to-compost and other processes. The Government has introduced a policy on the promotion of City Compost…
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Bengaluru’s Ward no. 104, Govindrajnagar became the first ward to implement the BBMP’s new model of segregated collection & transportation (C&T) of solid waste as wet, dry and sanitary. Covered vehicles with GPS and public…
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The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has announced plans for “garbage factories” at each of the city’s five zones. Once operational, door-to-door collection vehicles will not dump the collected waste outside localities at open dumping stations (from…
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The Ludhiana MC officials have started a campaign to educate its staff and citizens about responsible waste management practices. This has been prompted by indications that the Punjab solid waste management and cleanliness and sanitation…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced that each ward will be ranked based on waste segregation levels. The BBMP Special Commissioner (solid waste management), D Randeep has reportedly directed the officials to do…
