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After much delay, the Adampur Chhawani dumpsite located on the outskirts of Bhopal will begin the scientific disposal of waste from tomorrow onwards. The Adampur dumpsite was set up two years ago after the Bhanpur…
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Following the directive of the High Court (HC) of Bombay at Goa, Goa authorities will begin remediation work of the Sonsoddo dump yard on Thursday. The HC had given a deadline of December 15 for…
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The upcoming construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant at Jeedimetla in Hyderabad is almost ready for launch. Test runs at the site have begun. In the last few years, disposal of C&D waste has…
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Chhattisgarh has the highest success rate in terms of waste management among all Indian states, as per a report presented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs ministry recently in Parliament. Big states such…
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The Jammu and Kashmir government is installing solid waste treatment plants in eight major towns to convert the garbage into compost. The Kashmir Monitor reports that Baramulla, Sumbal, Hajan, Budgam, Bejbehara, Anantnag, Kulgam and Tral…
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The Ongole Municipal Corporation (OMC) has joined hands with Mahindra & Mahindra to set up a facility to generate power from wet waste. Around 85 to 100 tons of wet and dry waste is produced…
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The Bombay High Court (HC) has given the green signal for the expansion of the Kanjurmarg landfill site. In September, HC had issued a stay on the expansion, following a public interest litigation challenging the…
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There are ninety-six successful Waste-to-Energy (WtE) projects in India, as per a statement issued by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in the Lok Sabha. As of October 31, all 96 WtE projects were generating electricity…
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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met with Norway’s Ambassador to India, Hans Jacob Frydenlund to discuss collaboration on waste management technology. The Navhind Times reports that Goa’s Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo said that a…
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Kerala’s State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has rejected the Kochi Corporation’s position that setting up anaerobic digesters to treat solid waste lying at Brahmapuram was not practical. The Board has directed the civic body to…
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Thiruvananthapuram’s proposed Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant remains in limbo with the city corporation still not convinced about the feasibility of building a new centralized WtE plant. The Times of India reports that the state government’s continuous…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation (GHMC) plans to set up 30 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) plants at garbage transfer stations in the city. The proposal, which will soon be presented to the government,…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) has issued a notification requiring all construction and demolition (C&D) waste generators to pay Rs 134 per metric tonne to dispose of the debris. Non-compliance will invite penal action…
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The processing of legacy waste continues at full swing at the Vairapalayam compost yard in Erode, Tamil Nadu. The bio-mining machine started working in September and till date about 30,000 cubic metres of waste has…
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Each of the three municipal council areas of Pilibhit will now have their own material recovery facility (MRF). The Uttar Pradesh government has reportedly allocated Rs 33 lakh for each municipal council to set up…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) is planning to rebuild, renovate and upgrade its dry waste collection centres (DWCCs) in the city. This was announced following an audit of all 143 DWCCs in Bengaluru. Gaps…
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The West Bengal state government is coming up with bio-mining facilities at Dhapa to reduce the piling of waste at the landfill site. The Millennium Post reported that State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister…
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Goa’s Minister for Waste Management Michael Lobo recently inspected the Sonsoddo garbage dump and met with the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) to discuss the remediation of the waste. Mr Lobo said two bioremediation machines would…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation has planned four new projects for the treatment and reuse of solid waste generated in the city. The four projects include a construction and demolition waste management plant, compost plant, material…
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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has floated a tender to hire a private agency to clear construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the city. The agency will also be responsible for recycling the waste at…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has entered into an agreement with the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL) to install a 5-tonne biogas waste to energy plant at the municipality’s Waste…
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After more than 50 years of strong partnership within European market, CNIM and MARTIN brought their expertise in the energy-from-waste and –biomass business to the Indian market in 2017. Solidwasteindia.com brings an exclusive interview with…
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Goa will have a new hazardous waste management facility in Pissurlem industrial estate (near Valpoi) ready by December 2020, in time to meet the deadline set by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). As per the…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has selected three bidders to remediate around 4.7 lakh cubic metres of waste at all the eleven dump sites in the state. The selected bidders will be awarded the…
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Thiruvananthapuram authorities have decided to set up a centralized waste treatment plant within corporation limits, following a show-cause notice from the Pollution Control Board (PCB). Since the closure of the Vilappilsala plant last year following…
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The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has started serving user charge notices to bulk garbage generators for picking up their waste. Several shopkeepers, big commercial units, big hospitals, schools and colleges have been served notices amounting…
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The National Green Tribunal has fined the Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City) Municipal Corporation for failing to comply with its order to cordon off a dumping site to prevent contamination of East Calcutta Wetlands. The Telegraph…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started work on a plan to develop a mega-unit with a capacity of 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) for processing the biodegradable waste to compost. It will be…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has initiated a trial run of its first bio-methanation plant at Geeta Colony. Spread over 600 sq metres, the plant will consume 5000 kg of wet waste daily to generate…
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Following the National Green Tribunal’s ultimatum to reduce the height of the three landfills in Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalswa, the three respective Delhi municipal corporations are planning to install 33 trommel machines, with a capacity…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started capping work at the Kuberpur landfill site. The landfill site is spread over 42 acres of land and a drone survey estimates that is contains 8.5 lakh metric…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has announced plans to spend almost a quarter of its budget for 2020-21 on garbage segregation, door-to-door collection and scientific disposal of daily as well as legacy waste. Incidentally,…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Gurugram Municipal Corporation to clear 25 lakh tonnes of legacy waste at Bandhwari landfill within six months and warned that failure to do so may result in coercive…
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The Union Government will convene a meeting of environment ministers of all states to discuss the problem of single-use plastic and solid waste management (SWM) – as well as measures to solve it. This was…
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As part of its efforts to promote waste-to-energy (WtE), the Indian government has set up a total capacity of 56.34 MW for power generation from waste in the last three years. So far, 199 WtE…
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Four years after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed an order for setting up a 5 MW waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Srinagar, its installation remains stalled by procedural delays. The plant was to be installed…
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Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has proposed a project that will generate biogas and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from cow dung. In a bid to make the city’s Gaushalas (cow shelters) self-dependant, the Municipal Corporation has sent the…
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Local civic body authorities inspected Mormugao Solid Waste Treatment Plant (MSWTP) at Headland-Sada in order to expedite the process of clearing almost 80 metric tonnes of ‘legacy waste’ which has been lying there for the…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has signed a MoU with UltraTech cement to generate refuse-derived fuel (RDF) at its cement kilns. The transport of dry waste from the VMC’s recycling unit at Ajit Singh Nagar…
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GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd has started work on the much-delayed waste-to-energy plant in Kochi after receiving the last in a series of building approvals a few days ago. The first phase of the project…
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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to amend its building rules to better manage demolition waste to curb pollution. Earlier, there were no pollution related restrictions and anyone applying for demolition of a building…
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The collection of garbage from homes and streets remains affected after the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) appointed two new operators to replace its earlier contractor, Kanak Resources Management Limited (KRML). The Times of India reported…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is formulating plans to renovate the biomethanation plant at Ajit Singh Nagar and use it for electricity production using wet waste. A new biomethanation plant will be set up at Jakkampudi. …
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has imposed a Rs 10 lakh bank guarantee on private firm A2Z Waste Management for poor management of solid waste at the Tajpur Road garbage dump. The firm is…
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The Chennai Corporation has approved the revised draft of the Corporation of Chennai Solid Waste Management Bylaws 2019. The bylaws apply to all residents, institutions and commercial waste generators to ensure effective waste management. The…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is launching a special drive to collect construction and demolition (C&D) waste from November 20 to November 29. Hyderabad generates approximately 400 metric tonnes of C&D waste daily, most of…
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A new corporation has been created to take care of the management of hazardous waste from industries in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The AP Environment Management Corporation (APEMC) will collect green taxes from the respective industries…
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The first meeting of a committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the issue of compliance of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 will be held on November 19 in New Delhi.…
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The Goa government is making progress in its plans to remediate around 4.7 lakh cubic metre of existing dump sites at various locations in Goa. The Times of India has reported that the Goa government…
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Over a dozen Material Recovery Facility (MRF) centres will be set up in Greater Noida to manage waste by separating recyclable items from the dump for further use. The Times of India reports that only…
