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The Chennai civic body has earned over Rs 64 lakh in less than month – that is, since May 27 – by selling over 85 lakh kg of manure produced in its composting centres. The…
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The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) southern bench has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to take action against erring Kattankolathur panchayat officials for violating the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, including imposing environmental…
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The Nagaland Pollution Control Board has presented a draft comprehensive action plan for the elimination of single-use plastics. The first meeting of a special task force on Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2021 and the…
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The waste-to-energy (WTE) plant next to Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi has resumed operations after a gap of 6 months, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Mr Vinai Saxena announced. “Of the 2600 MT waste generated every day…
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From July 1, the West Bengal government will outlaw single-use plastics (SUPs). Plastic carry bags with a thickness of less than 75 microns will now be illegal to produce, stock, distribute, sell, or use. The…
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Hindalco Industries Ltd. and Manush Labs are collaborating for the Clean Technology Start-Up Challenge 2022 which aims to re-imagine industrial waste management and promote technological innovations in the domains of clean technology and circular economy.…
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Vedanta plans to modify the design of one of its waste heat recovery power plants in Goa and reoptimize its turbines using specialized technology to increase power generation by another 5 MW, according to a…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will use drones to map the elevation of landfills and monitor their height reduction, among other things. A similar pilot exercise was conducted a few months ago and yielded positive results. The move comes approximately a fortnight after LG Vinai Kumar Saxena…
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Amul has written to the government asking it to postpone a proposed ban on small plastic straws, claiming that the decision will have a “negative impact” on farmers and milk consumption in India. Amul made…
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Re Sustainability Limited, formerly known as Ramky Enviro, has announced an innovation fund for waste management, recycling, and circular economy ideas that have the potential to bring about transformative change. Through this initiative, the company seeks to…
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As per recent official data, the quantity of waste thrown into Delhi’s three landfill sites increased by roughly 15% over the previous year. Delhi generated 10,990 tonnes per day (TPD) of municipal solid waste (MSW)…
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Andra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has inaugurated the long-delayed Waste to Energy project in Guntur. The plant operated by Jindal Group was built at a cost of Rs 345 crore and…
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Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. (MDFVPL) has reaffirmed its commitment to a cleaner environment by pledging to become a plastic waste neutral company by FY2023-24, which means the company will collect, recycle, or…
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The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is constructing an integrated e-waste management facility at Sonarpur in the South 24-Parganas district. According to research conducted by the WBPCB and the West Bengal Electronic Development Corporation…
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A fire broke out in Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill on Friday. While temperatures in the national capital remain high in the scorching summer, the specific cause of the fire is uncertain. An MCD official informed The…
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The Kerala government has begun supporting local bodies in finding scientific waste management solutions in an effort to rid the state’s metropolitan areas of solid garbage. Grants, scientific waste data collection, technical support, and project…
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On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on Tuesday, the Bihar health department started a three-week anti-tobacco awareness campaign. According to a fact sheet, tobacco produces 5,844 tonnes of plastic garbage in Bihar each…
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India’s largest electronic waste recycling company Attero Recycling has announced its plans to invest $1 billion to expand globally over the next five years. As part of its plan, the firm that also recycles batteries…
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M/s Soma Srinivas Reddy Engineers and Contractors will build a new construction and demolition (C&D) waste plant on its own land in Kothwalguda, covering the eight circles of Chandrayangutta, Charminar, Falaknuma, Rajendranagar, Mehdipatnam, Karwan, Goshamahal,…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has announced an October deadline for the commissioning of a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at Tehkhand. It will use 2,000 tonnes of waste per day to generate 25 megawatts of…
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is building a waste-to-energy plant on the Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) model at its Vashi Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). The city’s wet organic waste will be…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Uttarakhand chief secretary to investigate a complaint claiming untreated waste dumping into the Ganga in Rishikesh and take appropriate measures for the state’s sewage treatment plants. The…
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The Pollution Control Board (PCB) is investigating illegal plastic recycling businesses in Hyderabad. The Telangana PCB has ordered the closure of two plants on the outskirts of Hyderabad. More units are also being investigated since…
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MoHUA has launched the eighth edition of Swachh Survekshan (SS) – SS 2023 under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0. Designed with the theme of ‘Waste to Wealth’ as its driving philosophy, SS 2023 is curated…
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The Tamil Nadu government plans to establish a separate solid waste management corporation, similar to the agency in Goa. Mr Siva V Meyyanathan, the state minister for climate change and environment said that this agency…
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Earlier this month, the Technology Development Board (TDB), a statutory body of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, issued a call for proposals from waste management companies with innovative and indigenous…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation plans to purchase roughly 200 vehicles for solid waste management activities. These vehicles are expected to cost the civic body around Rs 65 crore, according to preliminary estimates. The GVMC…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has increased waste collection fees by 5%, which would be reflected in water bills from April onwards. Water rates had been raised in March 2019 when the MC had taken over waste collection from private agencies. It introduced 399 garbage collection vehicles to collect dry…
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A 35 MT Waste to Energy (WtE) project in Meghalaya will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mr Conrad Sangma. The plant is located in Tura, West Garo Hills district, and will be operated by a…
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is expected to inaugurate the much-delayed Guntur Waste to Energy (WtE) plant operated by the Jindal group on June 5. The plant will generate about 15…
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Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation’s current ruling council has cancelled some pet initiatives for strengthening source level waste management that were planned during the previous council’s mandate. The new council said this was due to their inability…
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To prevent waste from being thrown into the Mithi River, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local groups to raise awareness among people who live along the river’s banks,…
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Mumbai’s first electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging station, which will run on energy produced from wet waste, has been integrated. The factory, which can handle 2,000 kg of wet garbage per day, has been built on…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has agreed to review the solid waste management project in Bavdhan to ensure it does not cause environmental difficulties for the Ramnadi river, which is undergoing a riverfront development project.…
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The Technology Development Board (TDB), a statutory body of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, has invited applications from companies with innovative/indigenous technologies in areas focusing on municipal solid waste, plastic…
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that India has the potential to become a vehicle scrapping hub in South Asia. The Minister for Road Transport & Highways shared his vision to create at least one…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has expressed its unhappiness with solid waste management in Guwahati. The NGT panel said that despite long-term supervision, no adequate progress has been made so far. The NGT order came in response to an…
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The Huhtamaki Foundation, a charitable trust run by Huhtamaki India, has inaugurated its first recycling plant in Khopoli, Maharashtra to help drive circularity for packaging. The site, spread across 2000 sq mt area, will recycle…
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The SDMC’s online platform for e-waste collection has received over 2,300 applications, with over 900 people using the service so far, according to civic officials. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) initiated an initiative in…
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The waste-to-energy plant in Ghazipur will soon reopen after being closed for over six months for maintenance. The plant uses 1,400-1,500 metric tonnes of waste and refuse-derived fuel waste (RDF) each day. East Delhi Municipal…
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Proceedings had been initiated on the death of two persons and injuries to two others in a fire in the garbage mound spread over 25 acres of land at Manesar, Gurugram. The National Green Tribunal…
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The Ninth Indian Material Recycling Conference (IMRC) organized by the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) will take place in Delhi between May 5-7, 2022. This year, the sessions include Circular Economy – the way…
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has levied an environment compensation worth Rs 35.26 crores on Ludhiana’s local bodies department for violating solid waste management guidelines and failing to start bioremediation of legacy garbage. Out…
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The Mumbai civic body (MCGM) has formed a committee to decide on the capacity of the second waste-to-energy plant to be built at the Deonar dumping ground. The amount of waste created daily may alter…
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The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has failed to get a single bidder to improve its waste processing plant at a cost of Rs 6 crore, meaning that the ambitious project will be further delayed. The…
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The use of plastic waste instead of cooking and non-cooking coal in the steel sector will help reduce plastic waste, said Union Steel Minister Ram Chandra Prasad Singh at the opening session of the Plastic…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has begun the process of constructing a fourth solid waste management plant at Verna Industrial Estate, which will handle waste from Mormugao taluka and sections of Salcete taluka. The…
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A National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel met with Ludhiana Municipal Corporation officials to discuss 20 metric tonnes of legacy waste accumulating in the landfill at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). The civic body has missed previous…
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Goa’s new Minister for waste management Mr Atanasio Monserrate has said that a comprehensive waste management project will be functional at Sonsoddo within the next 12-18 months. Sharing a few details about the roadmap for…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has resumed separate waste collection for COVID homes following a rise in cases. SDMC has hired a tipper for four to five wards and provided residents with a phone…
