Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) will incur expenses for waste collection in Faridabad, where the lockdown has further hit cash-strapped local civic body’s revenues. The Hindustan Times reports that the Faridabad civic body was…
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Last week saw yet another insightful webinar moderated by Ashish Sachdeva of the Green Dream Foundation, in partnership with Smart Cities India 2020 Expo on the topic ‘Decentralized Waste Management During COVID-19’. Inadequate and inefficient…
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Disposable masks are quickly piling up across cities, posing a major challenge for waste management authorities. These items are not recycled since they are considered hazardous and are being stacked at dry waste collection centres…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has reported five deaths of its permanent staff, all of whom are women and Class-IV employees who provide essential services like cleaning hospitals and picking up garbage from city streets. The…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has decided to challenge the declaration of star-rating of the Swachh Bharat Mission. Vizag’s rating dropped to a one-star from the last year’s two star. The scoring mechanism is…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Delhi’s Chief Secretary to hold a meeting within two weeks with all the authorities concerned to ensure proper dumping of construction and debris (C&D) waste in the national…
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The National Productivity Council (NPC) has released its assessment of plastic pollution by NPC in 4 cities – Prayagraj (Allahabad), Agra, Haridwar and Mumbai. As per the NPCs data collated from 46 centres in Mumbai…
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Cities across the country are reporting how the disposal of routine solid waste mixed with COVID-19 waste such as personal protection equipment (PPE), gloves and masks from quarantine centres, has put a massive strain on their…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched a revised protocol for star rating of cities for handling municipal solid waste. “The new protocol will consider ward-wise geo-mapping, monitoring of SWM value chain…
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Belgian Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat in India for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The first…
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Mumbai has got a zero star rating in the Swachh Survey 2020 results announced on Tuesday. By contrast, Navi Mumbai was awarded a “five-star garbage-free city” rating, the only one in the state to get…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started collecting Covid infected bio-waste across the city. So far, over 2,588 kg of waste has been collected from all the quarantine centres in Bengaluru. The collected waste is…
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The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has set up a three-member team for door-to-door collection of biomedical waste from homes of coronavirus affected patient and its disposal in a scientific manner. A senior municipal official…
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The 55-day lockdown has reduced hundreds of tonnes of garbage generation in temple city, Tirupati. All the hotels, restaurants and fast food centres were shut for the last two months and solid waste generation has…
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The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has finally got the possession of the 3-acre land for setting up a biomedical waste-treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The land is located towards the entrance side of the Brahmapuram waste-treatment…
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Ever since the nationwide lockdown began, Nagpur has reported that biomedical waste from the city’s hospitals and clinics has reduced drastically. In March, the private firm engaged in collecting biomedical waste from 1,800 city establishments…
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This morning, a fellow resident in my building, posted this picture (shared above) of her segregated plastic waste bundled up in a big bag, waiting to be collected by our Society’s housekeeping staff. In her…
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The Bombay high court (HC) has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) authorities to give details of the companies and prices at which the civic body had purchased personal protective equipment (PPE) kits such…
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Large amounts of disposable masks, gloves and other medical waste have been making their way to regular garbage piles across cities, posing a major challenge for civic authorities in charge of its collection and disposal.…
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The Goa Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) has extended its deadline for receiving suggestions and objections to the draft model Goa Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) By-laws, 2020. On April 28, the DMA had…
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With the extended lockdown halting the movement of non-biodegradable waste from Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) of local bodies Kerala, the local self-government department is working out solutions for treatment and disposal of rejects of non-biodegradable…
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Post the COVID-19 lockdown, cities across India have been generating significantly lesser quantities of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is the steep rise in the quantity of hazardous…
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As part of the UN-HABITAT’s Waste Wise Cities Campaign, Indore has been selected as a supporter city to assist one of the cities of Ethiopia in implementing a solid waste management system. Indore Municipal Corporation…
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The Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant has suffered yet another setback. The Local Self Government Department has asked the Kochi Corporation to terminate the Concession Agreement executed with GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd, the company entrusted with…
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It is applicable to units that will become commercially operational between 2020-21 and 2023-24 With a view to encouraging generation of power from solid waste in cities in the State, particularly in Hyderabad, Telangana State…
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The Chennai Corporation has started incineration of waste collected from residences of persons infected with COVID-19. Waste from houses where residents are quarantined is also being incinerated. Earlier, the waste from ‘infected’ homes was disposed…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has urged various State Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees to put serious effort in mitigating possible risk of unscientific disposal of bio-medical generated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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The amount of solid waste generated in Chennai has reduced from over 5,000 tonnes to under 3,700 tonnes during the COVID-19 lockdown period. This translates to a nearly 28 per cent drop, as per data…
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Biomedical waste generation has risen exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic was reported in India. As masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) kits need to be disposed each time after hospital staff attend to a coronavirus…
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Household waste collection in Thiruvananthapuram has stopped as material recovery facilities in 550 panchayats have reached full capacity. The New Indian Express reports that around 4 to 5 tonnes of dry waste are accumulated in…
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There has been a 193.9 per cent increase in the amount of biomedical waste in the past one week, according to the Regional Office of Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board. The Free Press Journal reports…
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THE Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has urged local authorities to strictly implement guidelines for collection, transportation and disposal of suspected COVID-19 waste and solid waste from quarantined homes and containment areas. The Indian Express reports that…
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Door-to-door garbage collection has stopped in many parts of the city, affecting around one lakh households as a section of sanitary workers of Eco-Green, the company hired for the job, has stopped reporting for duty…
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Almost half the Covid-19 waste generated from quarantine centres, containment zones and self-isolation centres in the city is disposed of unsafely, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) solid waste management department. According to…
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As authorities across the country are battling to deal with Covid-19, the bio-medical waste being generated is also causing major issues. Kerala has treated 21,401kg of Bio-Medical Waste (BMW) generated from hospitals tending to Covid…
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Find out how two leading waste management companies are managing their operations during the pandemic. Soon after cases of COVID-19 emerged in India, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released guidelines for handling, treatment and safe disposal…
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While most cities are reporting cleaner roads and reduced waste generation, there are some other cities that are still grappling to manage its waste during the lockdown period. Garbage continues to accumulate along South Goa’s…
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Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials report that waste generation in the city has decreased by around 53 per cent and dropped by 700 metric tonnes per day. Patna Mayor Sita Sahu told The Times of…
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Waste management company Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd. has announced a significant investment in Zigma Global Environ Solutions Pvt Ltd (Zigma), one of India’s largest landfill mining companies. Zigma specializes in landfill mining and…
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The reduction of garbage generated in Chennai touched 30% on Sunday, five days into the lockdown, according to Corporation officials. The New Indian Express reports that the Corporation collected 3,245 metric tonnes of waste on…
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After a week of lockdown, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started distributing identification cards to ragpickers, who were not allowed to do their work under the essential services category. The work of collection and segregation…
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The 21-day lockdown announced by the Prime Minister owing to Covid-19 is having an impact on garbage generation across Indian cities. In Mumbai, MidDay reports that after the first day of curfew on Monday, garbage…
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Despite the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) recent guidelines about handling and disposal of household waste generated while quarantining COVID-19 patients, urban local bodies seem ill-prepared. These guidelines make specific mention of biomedical waste generated…
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In a bid to promote Waste-to-Energy in India, the central government recently announced a grant of Rs 478 crore to WtE programmes for the remaining period of financial year 2019-20 (FY20). This includes a Central…
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In its status report on the bioremediation and bio-mining process at three landfills in Delhi, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) of several lapses. As per the report,…
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The Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB) has filed its report with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on a waste disposal dump yard set up on the bank of the Khoh river in Ratanpur village…
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Despite informing the National Green Tribunal that it would stop dumping fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill site from March 15, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) continues to dump waste there. Reason: It does…
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Garbage collection in Nagpur has reduced by 96-160 metric tonne (MT) per day in the last four months. This is the time that the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) replaced 11-year-old operator Kanak Resources Management Limited…
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The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has commissioned an incinerator plant for solid waste management at Kamakhya Coaching Depot. Energy will be produced in the incinerator plant from the waste collected from railway colonies and stations…
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A district court has stayed the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation’s recent notice to the Japyee group to terminate its garbage-processing plant contract and seek the unit’s possession. On December 30, 2005, the civic body had signed…
