Aafrin Kidwai
Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, has informed the Lok Sabha under the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016, 21 types of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) have been notified. These…
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Telangana claims to have become among the few states in the country that has been ensuring 100 per cent scientific treatment of biomedical waste generated in the state. In all years from 2016-17 to 2020-21,…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has released the new Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP) towards the goal of building a climate-resilient city. MCAP is a policy document to adopt an evidence-based planning approach and mobilize resources to…
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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Guidelines detailed in Plastic Waste Management Rules 2022 provide a comprehensive mechanism to hold plastic producers and manufacturers responsible for managing post-consumer plastic waste Consumer responsibility should be given more attention…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will collect and repurpose construction and demolition (C&D) trash generated across the city on a daily basis. This is reportedly the first time in 158 years that the NMC is…
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Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has removed around 45,000 cubic metres of plastic waste and silt from 575 drains. Its target is to remove around 80,000 cubic metres from December 25 last year to March 7…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has claimed that 100 percent door-to-door waste collection has been achieved in the city, with 70 percent of waste being segregated at the source. The MCG has also reported…
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One of India’s largest waste management firms Ramky Enviro Engineers has announced its new brand identity. Henceforth, it will be known as ‘Re Sustainability Limited’. Re Sustainability Limited (RE), a KKR-backed company, offers environmental services and…
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Based in Bhadohi, a town in Uttar Pradesh, Observing I Ecotech (OIE) offers proprietary technology for conversion of unsegregated waste to energy by-products including MSW, plastics, biomass, biomedical waste. OIE is a member of FICCI’s…
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It’s been a year since Ramky Enviro launched a special pilot program comprising entirely of women workers to handle conservancy operations for Zone 2 in Manali, covering a 40 sq. km area. Ramky says this is the…
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The Chandigarh administration has approved ‘Expressions of Interest’ (EOI) and invited companies to come and build a Waste to Energy (WtE) plant in the city. The administration has finalised the EOI, which would be called…
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On Tuesday, a NITI Aayog team will tour the Pirana Biomining project’s waste-to-energy plant in Ahmedabad. The officials will visit to the Abellon Clean Energy Ltd plant, escorted by representatives from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s…
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Cement producing companies ACC and Ambuja Cements have installed a so-called Geocycle Bubble Barrier plastic waste separator in Sunder Nagar, Himachal Pradesh, reports Cemfuels.com. Reportedly, the separator will collect the waste for use as RDF…
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Ramky has announced the launch of a modern fleet of 40 Internet-of-Things-enabled pick-up trucks to enable efficient solid waste management. The fleet will be in addition to the company’s existing fleet of 64 solid and/or…
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Heads of State, Ministers of environment and other representatives from 175 nations endorsed a historic resolution at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) on March 2 in Nairobi to End Plastic Pollution and forge an international legally binding…
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India has said that it is dedicated to addressing plastic pollution to lessen its negative impact on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, as well as the wellbeing of its people. Speaking at the United Nations Environment…
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Nearly 2,380 kg of plastics waste has been removed from the Nilgiri Mountain Route (NMR) route, the Southern Railway (SR) has informed a division bench of the Madras High Court. The petitioners, who include a…
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The Centre has approved the action plans of three states – Rajasthan, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh – as well as Chandigarh for the remediation of legacy municipal trash at dump yards in 171 municipal areas…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) have approved a Rs 20-crore project to build a 100-metric solid waste management facility on PCB’s property. A total of Rs 7.50 crore has…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded “people’s participation” in the Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM). Noting the increased use of cloth bags instead of polythene in various cities of the country, he said that the collective…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has asked its waste concessionaire, Ecogreen, to present a status report on its progress on the proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at the Bandhwari landfill site. The local body has requested…
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The Delhi government has announced the establishment of the “country’s first” e-waste eco-park in New Delhi to deal with rising e-waste The Delhi goverment plans to carry out recycling and remanufacturing on the 20-acre plot…
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South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) aims to sell carbon credits created by lowering its carbon footprint to organisations in other countries to enhance profits and improve its Swachhta Survekshan(SS) ranking. SDMC aims to establish a…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is conducting inspections of stores and manufacturing units in the city to combat the use of single-use plastic (SUPs). The Joint Commissioner of Solid Waste Management, Mr Sarfaraz Khan,…
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The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) has provided a grant to Saahas for setting up sustainable waste management infrastructure in 30 villages around the Panna National Park, over the next two years. This grant is part of project…
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New Delhi generates over 11,400 metric tonnes of waste each day. Of this, nearly 6,200 metric tonnes is dumped at landfill sites in Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa which are administered by the East, South, and…
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The Ahmedabad civic body has invited bids from private players to design, finance, set up and operate a facility to process upto 3000tpd of RDF fraction in the legacy waste at Pirana landfill. The contract…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has announced it will soon ban plastic waste entering corporation limits from other states. Vehicles carrying such waste will be stopped at toll booths. The DPCC plans to send…
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The Kochi Corporation has replaced the contractor, who has been operating the solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram on behalf of the local government for nearly a decade, with a new one. The corporation will…
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The Delhi administration is petitioning the Central government for Rs 1,755 crore to clear three landfill sites in Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa, which are administered by the East, South, and North Delhi Municipal Corporations, respectively.…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the central government plans to convert dumpsites across the country into green zones within three years. PM Modi made the announcement on Saturday while integrating the “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG)…
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India’s Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified the Guidelines on Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) on plastic packaging under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. The Guidelines provide a framework to strengthen…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has announced a new initiative to establish 90 secondary collection transfer locations in the city. Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Mr KT Rama Rao has directed officials to…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up the Maharashtra government for failing to prohibit the dumping of municipal waste into the Godavari River near Trimbakeshwar. According to an NGT bench led by NGT Chairperson…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to stop using 200 solid waste collection stations throughout the city. To enhance its ranking in the City Sanitation Index, the LMC will either build underground solid waste…
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Ayurveda major Dabur India Ltd claims to have become India’s first 100% ‘Plastic Waste Neutral company’, having collected, processed and recycled around 27,000 MT of post-consumer plastic waste from across the country in FY2021-22. This…
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Tambaram Corporation has been ordered by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to pay a compensation of Rs. 21 lakh for breaching the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ruling on proper solid waste disposal in…
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In Kerala, the Haritha Keralam Mission plans to implement a smart waste monitoring system called Haritha Mitram to keep track of the entire waste management process. This will be done through the local self government…
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The Jawaharnagar Waste to Energy (WtE) plant in Hyderabad will soon be enhanced to 48 MW. Currently, the plant is a functioning at a capacity of 19.8 MW. The Jawaharnagar plant, which opened in August…
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The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) will install 50 e-waste collection bins in Bengaluru, including the Vidhana Soudha and the High Court. In addition, one hundred bins will be installed in other parts of…
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In October 2020, global circularity giant Urbaser, headquarter in Spain, joined hands with Pune-based Sumeet to manage waste in parts of Chennai. The contract is based on Key Performance Indicators for a period of eight…
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Sistema.bio has announced the close of a Series B investment round of USD$ 15.6MM that included a mix of equity, debt and non-dilutive capital to support the continued growth and scale of the company’s waste-to-energy…
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Tamil Nadu-based waste management platform Cercle X has raised Rs 1.9 crore in a seed funding round from Gurugram-based Inflection Point Ventures. Co-founded by Vishnu Vardhaan and Divya Shetty in January 2020, the startup is…
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All state Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees have been ordered by the National Green Tribunal to provide status reports on the operation of e-waste recycling industries that are generating environmental degradation and health…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has proposed an allocation of Rs 7 crore to relocate construction and other waste from the city to another specified location. Municipal commissioner Mr Vikram Kumar presented a proposal to…
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Haryana’s first material recovery facility (MRF), managed by Ecogreen Energy, has been inaugurated n Badshahpur, Gurugram. The facility has a capacity to process nearly 150 tonnes of garbage on a daily basis and can accommodate…
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Haryana’s Urban Local Bodies department has formed a five-member committee to investigate the selection of contractors for legacy waste processing at the Bandhwari landfill site. The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram was recently ordered by the…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced an increase of 250 percent in its expenditure on solid waste management, as part of its ambitious ‘SWM vision 2030’ campaign. The campaign aims to create a favourable…
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The Karnataka Government has extended Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt. Ltd.’s seven-year contract for solid waste management with Mangaluru City Corporation, which was set to expire on January 31 this year. The state’s Urban Development…
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In Kanpur, GIZ recently completed a waste characterization study. At six different transhipment stations in the city, an eight-person team gathered samples from different waste streams. The study found that about half of municipal waste…
