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A massive fire broke out at the Bhalswa landfill site in north Delhi on Tuesday evening. According to officials, 13 fire tenders were at the site to douse the flames. Environment minister Gopal Rai on…
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Bhopal’s civic body claims that plastic waste has decreased by over 30% roughly, a year and a half after a single-use plastic (SUP) ban was implemented. Bhopal Municipal Commissioner (BMC) Mr MP Singh told The Times of India that enforcement through penalties, alternative packaging methods, and other…
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Top officials of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) visited IREDA funded 15 MW Waste-To-Energy (WTE) Plant at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. IREDA’s team was accompanied by Shri M.V.Chary, President (AP Projects), and other…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) is planning to build a facility to convert non-recyclable waste, especially plastic, into fuel. With the state government paying a significant amount of money to bring refuse-derived fuel (RDF)…
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Swachh Sustainable Solutions Pvt Ltd has been awarded a grant as part of The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services. Swacch Sustainable Solutions operates under the brand name, Recircle, in India. Recircle aggregates the collection and processing of dry waste to…
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TOMRA has released its latest white paper, which examines ways to improve the effectiveness of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) initiatives, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Through the white paper, TOMRA, a leading waste,…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) plans to earn revenue by recycling dry and wet waste at its Chetpet Bio CNG facility and selling manure. The civic body reportedly receives a royalty of Rs 1.5…
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Chandigarh will soon be getting its first plastic waste recycling plant. The civic body is examining two plant designs. One under which the MC will only give land to a company that will build the…
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A Coimbatore Councillor has offered residents who segregate a free trip to Ooty as a reward for their service. Launching a door-to-door campaign in Annur town panchayat, Mr Ranganathan, an independent councillor from Ward 12…
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The 3-day “Smart Cities, Smart Urbanization” conference had a grand opening in Surat on Tuesday. The event is being organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India with Surat Smart City…
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has said it will penalize the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation for its failure to manage the city’s solid waste. Officials from the PPCB noted that the city’s lack of solid…
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The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) will take over the Indirapuram dumpsite following the exit of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC). Following the National Green Tribunal’s instructions, the corporation began bioremediation work at the site in…
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Trichy Corporation has proposed to develop a 100 tpd capacity recycling plant at Panjapur. The factory, which is being planned as a public-private partnership (PPP), will collect demolition waste from all across the city and…
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Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Mr Piyush Goyal has urged the plastics industry to reduce import dependency to become the world’s premium supply hub. “The plastic industry needs to reduce the volume of imports…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has levied penalties totaling approximately Rs 50 lakh on those caught using single-use plastics (SUP) in the last three years. The SDMC has issued roughly 2,120 challans as part…
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Pre-bids for the bioremediation of the 7.67 lakh metric tonne of legacy garbage at the Dadu Majra dumping ground has garnered the interest of twelve companies. The MC has received several suggestions from the companies.…
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Headquartered in Singapore, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions is one of India’s fastest-growing waste management companies. Founded in 2017 by Madhujeet Chimni, Bharadwaj Chivukula and Prashant Singh, Blue Planet’s portfolio includes four Indian waste management companies: Rudra Environmental Solutions,…
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has given its nod for the waste-to-energy plant at the Bhagtanwala dumpsite in Amritsar. The WtE plant will have the capacity to process consume 1,000 MT garbage daily and…
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The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has agreed to build two new biomethanation units with a capacity of treating 5 tonnes of waste per day in order to alleviate the city’s solid waste management crisis. Work…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation is planning to enlist the support of women’s self-help groups (SHGs) in order to create job opportunities in the field of waste management. The administration plans to use women SHGs to…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) conducted a high-level meeting to discuss the progress made in the cleanup of the three legacy dumpsites in Delhi’s Okhla, Ghazipur, and Bhalswa. It was emphasized that…
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The Centre has approved Rs 403.77 crores for legacy waste clearance in Gujarat. To retrieve prime land in Gujarat from hazardous landfills, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has approved the central share…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) has collected penalties worth approximately Rs. 7 lakh during the last two weeks from those caught dumping waste in public places. According to a statement released by the GCMC, a campaign was held in the city from March…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has ordered 194 bulk waste generators (BWGs) in the city, including hotels, restaurants, banquet halls, and other commercial establishments, to construct waste processing facilities in their units in order…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has told the Delhi Assembly’s Environment Committee that clearing the Ghazipur dump will take at least ten years at full performance. The municipal government has also admitted that it…
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The Bhubaneshwar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed a budget of Rs 600 crore, with Rs 110 crore budgeted for waste management, which is more than a two-field increase in five years. The BMC has set…
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ITC Ltd has announced that it is speeding up its efforts to move beyond plastic neutrality, claiming to have managed more than 54,000 tonnes of plastic trash in India sustainably in 2021-22. Well-Being Out of…
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The Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav has launched ‘Prakriti’, a mascot to spread public awareness on sustainable living and highlight various green initiatives taken by the Ministry of Environment,…
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Singapore-based investment management firm Circulate Capital has invested in Indian plastic recycling company Deluxe through its $112-million Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF I), which was created in partnership with global corporations like PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble,…
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Karnataka’s Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Mr K S Eshwarappa has said that the government planned to build 50 solid waste management facilities this year to dispose of and process dry trash collected…
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Goa Chief minister Pramod Sawant has said in his budget speech that the 100-tonne-per-day (TPD) solid waste management facility under construction in Cacora is expected to be completed this month at a cost of Rs…
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In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Mr R.K Singh stated that the country has 249 waste-to-energy facilities, 819 biomass power plants, and 50.8…
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FMCG maker Procter & Gamble India has said it has become a ‘plastic waste neutral’ company in FY 2021-22, after having recycled 100 percent of post-consumer plastic packaging waste. The company, which has a portfolio…
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An automatic compressed biogas (CBG) facility, the first in Noida, will be built in Sector 123 to dispose of 200 metric tonnes of wet waste daily. The factory, which will be developed in a public-private…
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On Monday, the Union government informed the Lok Sabha that 29 incidents of illicit e-waste importation have been discovered across the country since 2019. The data was placed by the administration in answer to a…
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More than 50 hours after a major fire broke out at east Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site, firefighters finally brought the blaze under control amid challenges posed by the hard-to-reach fire spots and thick smoke. Strong…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has approved a proposal worth Rs 178.6 crore for legacy waste remediation in Telangana and Rs 433.72 crores for Maharashtra. The total project approval for Telangana is worth Rs 178.6…
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The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) monitoring committee has asked the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district administration in Punjab to set timeframes for the completion of solid waste management projects, sewage treatment facilities, and other projects.…
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A wall located at the back of the Solid Waste Management Treatment Plant at Sonsodo, Goa collapsed on the weekend. The weight of the waste inside the plant, put pressure against the wall, caused the…
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According to the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report submitted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, the delay in completing an integrated solid waste management facility, even after 12 years of planning, has resulted in the…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation plans to transfer roughly 260 MT waste per day to its 15 MW waste-to-energy plant from surrounding urban local bodies in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. The move is intended to…
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Recently, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a penalty of Rs 3 Crore on administration officials in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir for not taking steps to control pollution and illegal mining in…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has announced that it will complete its second waste-to-energy plant and Delhi’s first “engineered landfill site” in Tehkhand by September 2022 and March 2023, respectively. The Department of Environment…
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Citizens and members of various NGOs in Ludhiana staged a silent protest outside the Municipal Corporation (MC) Zone D office. They claim that they have raised protests over the issue for decades, but to no…
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Increasing stocks of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) following the biomining of legacy waste is posing problems for full-fledged operation of trommel machines at Bhalswa and Ghazipur landfill sites. A North Delhi Municipal Corporation official informed The…
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The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA), which is the key agency responsible for the Sector V township, has announced several initiatives for improving waste management in Salt Lake City. This includes mapping of wet and…
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Zigma Global Environ Solutions has been ranked 24 on the Financial Times’ list of High Growth Rate Companies 2022. This year’s FT rating of 500 high-growth firms in the Asia-Pacific area, was developed in collaboration…
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Chandigarh’s third material recovery facility (MRF) and garbage transfer station has been inaugurated at Sector 25, near Dadumajra. The first facility at 3 BRD and the second at the Industrial area, Phase I, are under…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) effort to collect e-waste from every home in the city through door-to-door collection is received positive feedback from citizens. Many residents are contacting the local sanitation department and donating…
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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said road construction costs must be reduced without compromising on quality. Addressing the 17th Annual Conference on ‘Road Development in India’ organised by Indian Infrastructure, he…
