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In the backdrop of confirmed Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases in Pune, the Pune Municipal Corporation and city residents are at loggerheads regarding garbage disposal. The Hindustan Times reports that since the last 10 days, residents of…
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A Parliamentary Committee has asked for urgent steps to tackle municipal waste at the Ghazipur landfill in East Delhi and recommended converting the site into a park. Newsclick.in reports that the Standing Committee on Urban…
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The streets of Coimbatore could soon start piling up with garbage as more than 5,000 sanitary workers are on strike against the corporation for failing to provide them first preference while recruiting people for the…
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With the local municipal corporation (MC) continuing to dump the city’s daily garbage on the vacant land in Phase 8B, Industrial Area, the Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the MC commissioner to be present in…
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The Karnataka High Court has directed the State government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to come out with a road map for scientific disposal of construction and demolition waste as the 2016 Solid Waste…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) to clear civic waste dumped in an undesignated landfill in Indirapuram’s Shakti Khand area. The Tribunal gave 30 days to the civic body…
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From March 15, the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad will no longer dump their fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill. Instead, they will process it at alternative sites in Basai (Gurugram) and Sihi…
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The government has given its nod for a grant of Rs 478 crore to the waste-to-energy (WTE) programme for the remaining period of the financial year 2019-20. This includes a Central Financial Assistance (CFA) of Rs 400 crore…
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A proposal to create a 30-acre dumpsite in Faridabad’s Pali Mohbtabad village to divert fresh waste away from the Bandhwari landfill, has been scrapped by the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad. The Hindustan Times…
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The West Bengal Municipal Affairs department has directed all municipalities in the state to devise means of waste processing facility (WPF) through which wet and dry waste can be processed separately. The WPF system will…
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The State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on solid waste management has said that the use of biodegradable and recyclable non-biodegradable waste at the proposed waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram may not be viable. The Hindu reports…
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Seven years after the introduction of Swachcha Mumbai Prabodhan Abhiyan, Mumbai’s civic authorities have finally decided to evaluate the garbage collection system in slum areas. MidDay reports that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will take…
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) – Government of India, has uploaded a draft notification on its website of the ‘Battery Waste Management Rules, 2020’. The new draft notification is an enhancement and strictly…
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The National Green Tribunal has found that machinery at a solid waste management (SWM) plant in Dadumajra is generating a high amount of dioxins into the environment, beyond permissible limits. A monitoring committee appointed by…
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The Mohali government has handed over 40 acres out of the total 50 acres allotted for a waste-to-energy plant in Samgoli village of Dera Bassi to the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC). The Hindustan Times reports…
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Chennai’s first-ever dry-waste incineration plant at Manali in North Chennai is ready to run at full capacity. The plant will process 10 tonnes of dry waste in 20 hours each day. Over the last few…
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Biomining has begun at the dump yard in Ariyamangalam in Trichy. However, at present, only 800 MT of waste will be processed by the biomining plant. The quantity will be increased to 1,400 MT when…
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Himachal Pradesh has set up two waste management plants across the state. One of them is of 1.75 MW with an outlay of Rs 42 crore in Shimla, while another is of 1 MW in…
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Over six years after disposal of the ‘legacy’ waste of 4 lakh tonne solid waste at landfill site Nakravadi was halted, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has resumed work. The disposal of municipal solid waste…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation is making efforts to mechanise its core activities through the purchase of equipment for garbage collection. Proposals worth Rs 200 crore are in the pipeline to procure mini amphibians which clean…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has started the process of setting up an integrated waste-processing facility at the 42-acre Ghonda Gujran site. A waste-to-energy plant is expected to come up at Ghonda Gujran, followed by…
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NTPC, India’s largest power producer, has successfully implemented a technology to convert Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into high Gross Caloric Value (GCV) fuel that can be co-fired in conventional boilers at its Dadri plant in…
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A new waste management plant set up by the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) in the Hadapsar industrial area is expected to become operational by the first week of March. The new facility will process 100…
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The toxic solid waste landfill site near the Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) at Khajod has now transformed into lush green lawns spread over 30 hectare land. SDB is coming up on 35 acres land at…
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BMC’s standing committee has cleared a proposal to award the contract for an automatic waste segregation facility on a one-acre plot at Cuffe Parade to Ahmedabad’s Nepra Resource Management. The plot will be leased for free to the contractor…
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The West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the purchase of surplus power from a waste gas-based generating project, located at Chhatna in the Bankura district of West Bengal.…
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Six years after the concept’s approval by the Indian Road Congress (IRC), the city is set to get plastic roads. MidDay reports that the civic body has issued orders to all asphalt plants to provide…
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The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has allowed the Okhla waste-to-energy plant to increase its power generation from 16 MW to 23 MW by amending the environmental clearance the plant had received in…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has found a new way to fight growing plastic pollution: by appointing an agency to segregate plastic from the landfill for recycling. The Times of India reports that MCC appointed…
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The BMC plans to soon commence a waste treatment plant at Ambernath. The solid waste management department is in the process of acquisition of land at Karavale in Ambernath taluka. While the government had given…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation workers’ strike has entered its fourth day. The workers are protesting against the state government’s decision to remove them instead of regularising their jobs, which had been their demand for a…
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Probably for the first time, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) budget mentions a “circular economy” that will benefit not only the civic body and citizens, but the environment. The Times of India reports that the…
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Following the National Green Tribunal’s directive, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is taking all possible measures to clear the landfill site at Dhapa completely by the next two years. The Solid Waste Management (SWM) department…
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An 11 MW Waste-to-Energy plant being built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) at Pirana will be operational by the end of the year. The AMC has entered power purchase agreements with two companies that…
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The Noida authority has identified a permanent landfill site in Dostpur Mangraui village, facing sectors 162 and 164 between the Yamuna checkdam and the DFCC corridor that is under construction. The project proposal has been…
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As part of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the government will allocate Rs 12,300 crore for the Swachh Bharat Mission for FY21. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Mission is…
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The Mohali administration has set up its first solid waste management (SWM) project at Jheurheri village in the district. The Times of India reports that under this project, every household will be given a pair…
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A 30-tonne per day (TPD) biogas plant in Kanchanwadi, Aurangabad will be ready by next month while the 150-TPD waste treatment plant in Padegaon will be ready in two months. This was announced by Maharashtra’s…
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The Mangaluru Smart Limited (MSCL) is going to introduce a new barcode system for efficient implementation of solid waste management (SWM) in all the 60 wards of Mangaluru city. ETGovernment.com reports that MSCL has already introduced the system…
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Bengaluru has introduced steep fines for littering public places, not segregating garbage at source and violation of solid waste management (SWM) regulations. Offenders will have to pay Rs 1000 for their first offence and Rs…
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The Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL) has announced that it will set up a waste-to-energy plant in Assam. The facility will be established near the proposed integrated solid waste management facility (ISWMF) of the…
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The Government has issued an order converting the concessional agreement signed between the Kochi Corporation and GJ Eco Power Private Ltd., the company entrusted with the construction of the waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram, into a…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has started biomining of the 50-year-old landfill in Sathangadu near Tiruvottriyur in North Chennai. The GCC says it will be wrapped up by early 2022. The New Indian Express reports that…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sought an extension (for the seventeenth time, as per some news reports) on a Bombay High Court deadline to stop dumping of solid waste at the Deonar site. The…
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The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has commissioned the country’s first government-run Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant at Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. This WtE plant, a patented technology called Polycrack, is the first…
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Belgian waste to energy technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The project will…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has started providing home composting kits to apartment owners, despite opposition from gated community residents against the VMC’s decision to categorise them as Bulk Waste Generators (BWGs). According to the New…
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Kolkata has proposed to introduce biomining for the first time in the city to tackle its Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) problem. The project will be undertaken at the Mollar Bheri dumping ground. A portion of…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has planned to open at least eight plants this year to process around 1,700 tonnes of waste daily. Open dumping has been banned at the Uruli Devachi dumping site but…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is slowly gaining appreciation as it strives to improve the city’s ranking in Swachh Survekshan 2020. The official account of Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), tweeted, “Vizag in Andhra Pradesh…
