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Urban local bodies in Telangana will collect user charges for waste collection, as per revised charges announced by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department. A private agency will collect the amount after categorizing waste…
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The Ajithsingh Nagar dump yard reclamation project is finally complete. Sharing the news on a social media platform, Mr Nagesh Prabhu Chinivartha, Co-Founder and Director – Zigma Global Environ Solutions Pvt Ltd, which implemented the…
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The National Green Tribunal has said adequate steps were not being taken against unregulated dumping of solid waste on the flood plains of the Yamuna in the temple town of Vrindavan. The green panel noted…
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The recently released Energy Statistics Report 2020 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation provides data on India’s Waste to Energy (WtE) output and potential. Solar energy is the fastest developing energy source…
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Recent press reports suggest that revenue losses in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have prompted it to revise its revenue target for the 2020-21 period, which will also impact its expenditures in the solid waste…
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The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has started the process to change land use of a plot measuring 4.3 acres at Maidan Garhi in south Delhi for setting up a waste processing unit. The solid waste construction…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the West Bengal Environment Department, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, New Town Kolkata Development Authority and Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority to file a status report on the action plan to prevent…
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With waste generation expected to increase manifold in the coming years, trained professionals are required in the field to manage the waste generated from development projects of industries, mining, housing and urban areas. To address…
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Barely 0.8% of frontline workers from the Solid Waste Management (SWM) department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) tested positive for COVID-19 in rapid antigen tests conducted since July 24. A total of 14,527 staffers from…
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The quantum of biomedical waste generated in Delhi increased by 15 times in June compared with the preceding month when just 25 tonnes was being produced daily. According to a report submitted by Environment Pollution…
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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organized a webinar on Decentralized waste management solutions for India earlier today. Moderated by Ulhas Parlikar, Former Director, Geocycle – ACC, the key speakers included Sharad Ughade, Asst. Commissioner…
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Latest Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data suggests that after an increase in bio-medical waste generation across Mumbai over four straight months, the daily average in July has fallen by 38 per cent over the high…
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The NITI Aayog’s India Voluntary National Review 2020, recently released as part of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development 2020, reports that there is a hundred percent source segregation in 75 percent…
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The UN-HABITAT organized an exclusive webinar for municipal officials and waste experts on Japan’s highly successful Fukuoka Method of landfilling (details regarding the technology are given below), a semi-aerobic landfill disposal technology for solid waste,…
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IFAT India has officially announced that its annual Mumbai event scheduled from October 13 to 15, 2020 owing to the pandemic. Here is the message posted on its website: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global…
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The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has decided to enhance its biomedical waste (BMW) facilities in view of COVID-19 pandemic. At present there are 20 Common Treatment Plants operational throughout the state where biomedical wastes,…
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It’s official. Uttar Pradesh leads states in setting up plants to produce compressed bio-gas (CBG), followed by Maharashtra and Haryana, according to the petroleum ministry. Of the 515 letters of intent (LoI) issued to entrepreneurs…
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Patiala’s 55-year-old garbage dumping ground on Sanaur Road is finally being removed. The municipal corporation is hiring a firm to carry out scientific segregation of waste at the site. Patiala mayor Mr Sanjeev Sharma Bittu…
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The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) will conduct a second laboratory test to gauge the “safety” of leachate at the Bandhwari landfill. This move comes after several experts and activists found possible errors in…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has said it will continue with the construction of the new garbage processing unit at Uruli Phursungi despite the villagers’ protest. PMC said the court order did not stop them…
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The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had decided that all solid waste collected from the areas newly merged into the city will henceforth go to the Pirana dumpsite. The AMC has asked the concerned zone to…
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The Supreme Court has pulled up concerned authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR) for the dumping of biomedical waste (BMW). It also noted that the waste is not being segregated which is very dangerous…
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The Supreme Court has directed the Railway Department as well as the municipal corporations to take appropriate action against the piling of waste along railway tracks in Delhi and submit an action plan. The apex…
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With 102 of its staff members succumbing to Covid-19, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is perhaps the worst affected among government agencies battling the pandemic in the country. Till July 11, a total of 2,198 BMC workers had…
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The latest guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) provide specifications on segregation of general solid waste and biomedical waste from quarantine centers/home-care/healthcare facilities treating COVID-19 patients. Recommendations are also provided on the…
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The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (the Alliance) has announced a strategic partnership with UN-Habitat to implement solutions toward a circular economy, creating business and livelihood opportunities while enhancing resource recovery. The new partnership, which…
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Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by…
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At least ten companies have evinced interest in the Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant. A meeting was organised by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) through video conferencing late last week in view of the COVID-19…
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As India struggles to establish a comprehensive biofuel policy, IFAT India hosted some of the most prominent names in the sector to share their experiences and expert opinions in a webinar titled “Biofuels: An essential…
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On Saturday, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) welcomed its new Commissioner – Manjunath Prasad. Mr Prasad was the commissioner of BBMP for three years before BH Anil Kumar’s appointment. He returns to the position amid…
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The Uttarakhand government has released Rs 9.24 crore for solid waste management programmes in different parts of the state. The amount will reportedly be used by the urban local bodies for establishing or further improving…
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Out of about 1,47,613 metric tonnes of solid waste generated daily across the States, 89,545 metric tonne (or 61 per cent) is processed while the remaining waste is dumped in the open. Many municipal bodies…
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Assam’s lone CBWTF in the Panikhaiti area is proving insufficient in pandemic times. The quantity of biomedical waste generated by city hospitals has increased considerably during the pandemic, compelling the government to ink a fresh…
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The recently released Global E-waste Monitor estimated that the world generated a phenomenal 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste or an average of 7.3 kilogram per capita last year. The total e-waste generation has increased…
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Thirty common facilities have been set up for the treatment and scientific disposal of Covid-19 bio-medical waste generated across the state, as per the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). In an affidavit filed in the…
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Following an overwhelming response to its COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheets, the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) has released the Factsheets in Hindi. It is also preparing to release the Factsheets in other local languages. The…
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Following reports of dumping of municipal solid waste in the Wular Lake, North Kashmir the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stepped in. It has sought a factual and action-taken report from the Member Secretary, State…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) to initiate prosecution and recover compensation from the Kochi corporation for noncompliance of directives issued by the tribunal on the solid…
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This was an event worth attending. Focussed on the challenges and way forward in COVID-19 waste management, the hour-long online panel discussion organized by the Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CECCSD), Impact…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has decided to scrap its planned waste treatment plant that was supposed to come up at a landfill on the outskirts of Farrukhnagar. The move comes as a result…
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Goa Waste management minister Michael Lobo has said the government has not shelved the Bainguinim waste treatment plant project. It has been put on hold as there is a financial crunch. Once funds are available,…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Maharashtra authorities to come up with an action plan to reduce waste that is affecting mangrove forests and coastal wetlands along Mumbai. The state has been asked to…
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The tender for bio-mining of garbage at Bhandewadi dumping yard is all set to be scrapped. The board of directors (BoD) of Smart City Project’s special purpose vehicle — Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development…
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The Municipal Corporation of Amritsar (MC) has started the process of bioremediation of garbage at Bhagtanwala dump again. Recently, the Amritsar MSW Company Limited started the functioning of two machines for garbage bioremediation under the…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and state pollution control boards to ensure that no permit is given to any new industry which generates hazardous effluents till facilities for disposal of…
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The construction of a waste management facility by the Noida Authority adjacent to ‘Kalibari’ in Sector 26 has become a point of contention between the temple’s committee and the Authority. The waste management facility has…
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Pune’s bio-medical waste (BMW) is being sent to Mumbai for incineration ever since the city’s sole BMW incinerator broke down last month. Its repairs, the plant operator said, are set to take another 15 days.…
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Following directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to develop standardized technologies to assist local bodies to comply with the Solid Waste Management rules 2016, the Niti Aayog has informed the green panel that it…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation has doubled the cost for the collection and safe disposal of Covid-19-linked biomedical waste to Rs100/kg as against Rs47/kg for the biomedical waste of non-Covid patients. “After Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, and…
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The Karnataka government will soon set up waste treatment plants at Kesare and Rayanakere on the outskirts of Mysuru. The Mysuru City Corporation commissioner Gurudatta Hegde said the government has sanctioned Rs 41 crore to…
