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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Jaypee Group to run its waste processing plant in Dadu Majra at optimum capacity, according to Tribune India. The plant has a capacity of 550 metric tons…
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The Jaipur Municipal Corporation has defined new requirements forcing public building and partly private institutions to process their wet waste through composting or anaerobic digestion. According to The Times of India, the change which will…
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The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) has entered an agreement with the management of a 6 MW Waste-to-Energy plant in Pilakhuwa, Hapur, as The Times of India reported. The agreement will see GMC transport over 200…
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According to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), construction works on the Waste-to-Energy project in Bhandewadi will commence soon. As reported by The Times of India, NMC further stated that a proposal had already been submitted…
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The municipal council of Matheran, a hill station in Maharashtra, is planning a new AD plant processing horse manure. The technology for the new plant will be delivered by the Trombay-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,…
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Gujarat University is to construct a biogas plant to be fed with kitchen waste from nearby residential colonies, hotels and restaurants on its campus in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, as Ahmedabad Mirror reported. The waste to be…
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India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) is increasing the pressure on the local government of Srinagar regarding the implementation of the Achan WtE project, The Kashmir Observer reports. The local administration of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir,…
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As The Hindu BusinessLine reports, the WtE project in Kochi, Kerala, seems to be progressing and is currently seeking investors for its completion. The WtE facility is located at Willingdon Island and will be equipped…
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According to EUWID Recycling, India will install the country’s first car-shredder until November 2018. While the location for the new car-shredder, with an intake capacity of 40 tph, has not yet been found, the technical…
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As reported by The Times of India, India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered the Noida Authority to build and make functional a waste-to-energy plant in Sector 123 of Noida, state of Uttar Pradesh near New-Delhi,…
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French firm 3WAYSTE has expressed interest in the installation of a new WtE plant at Chikkanagamangala, Bangalore. The local administration of Chikkanagamangala and firm associates have submitted a project proposal to the Urban Development Board…
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A meeting which will be led by the Chief Minister of Brahmapuram, state of Kerala, will be held this week at Thiruvananthapuram to finalise the allocation of the remaining four acres of land for Brahmapuram…
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The municipal council of Cuncolim, South Goa, has contracted Pune-based company Sampurn(e)arth Environment Solutions Pvt Ltd for the collection, segregation and treatment of the local waste which includes about 5 tonnes of mixed waste per…
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As was stated by APN Live, the WtE project at Vadodara (state of Gujarat), which had first been discussed in 2014, seems to be nearing completion. Reportedly, the Indian Prime Mister himself will inaugurate the…
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The Indian Ministry of Steel is currently in negotiations with the Ministry of Finance about the abolition of the 2.5% import tariff on steel scrap, as EUWID Recycling & Entsorgung reports. However, it is not…
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According to The Hindu, plans provide for building several biogas plants throughout the campus of the Government Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The units should be processing the entire food waste generated on the…
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After a fire struck the Ghazipur landfill in East Delhi on 15 October, the local administration is now intensifying its efforts to build a new WtE facility at the Ghazipur site, NDTV reports. According to…
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As reported by The Hindustan Times, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for the Bandhwari WtE project on 14 October 2017. The involved parties were the local bodies of Faridabad (state of Haryana9…
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According to government officials, around 15 private companies have already expressed their interest in the Noida WtE project. The local bodies already reviewed those applications until 7 October 2017 and are still in the process…
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After being on trial run for the past two months, the WtE plant at Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi shall be commissioned this month, as reported by The Hindustan Times. Once in operation the plant…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has officially ordered the Pollution Control Board to collect air quality samples around the Okhla WtE plant in Delhi once in every four months from now on, NDTV reports. Furthermore,…
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According to The Times of India, the implementation of the Agra WtE project, Uttar Pradesh, seems to make progress. Reportedly, a power purchase agreement was signed on 6 October, between the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation…
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The status of the WtE project in Deonar, Mumbai, remains unclear. Even though the bidding process for the project had been opened, the project obviously failed to attract any bidders, the Mumbai Mirror reports. The…
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On 4 October, the government of India has approved two recycling plants for construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Fathullahguda and Jeedimetla, The Hindu reports. The tender has already been awarded to India-based provider of…
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According to state health minister Anil Vij, the Haryana state government has approved about EUR 78 million for setting up a Waste-to-Energy plant in Ambala, the Business Standard reports. The plant will be constructed in…
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In a visit to the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) headquarters, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal discussed on issues of solid waste management, The Hindu reports. The waste processing capacity of the WtE plant in Ghazipur should…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has floated tender for a new Waste-to-Energy plant in Dwarka, following the directive to stop dumping waste at the existing landfill sites. The SDMC has already identified a plot…
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As Zeebiz reports, JBM Group has signed a concession agreement with the Haryana state government to build and operate a 5 MW power plant in Sonepat. This plant will treat 500 tons of municipal waste…
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As Waste Management World reports, the Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards will be upgraded with an investment of about USD 111 million. The Government of India and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a deal…
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According to ZEEBUSINESS, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, has announced plans for building a recycling plant for the conversion of organic waste into biogas. The source does not…
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The Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) plans a new AD plant in Pinjarapol in the district of Rajnandgaon. The AD plant should be constructed at a Gaushala with a capacity of 10,000 tons. As…
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A biogas plant is to be developed in Gaushala, Rajnandgaon district. According to The Daily Pioneer, the Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) plans to build a biogas plant with a capacity to produce 10…
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India-based NTPC Ltd. (National Thermal Power Corporation) is inviting companies to place bids for new WtE projects under the government’s Swachh Bharat programme. The Swachh Bharat campaign serves the aim of promoting cleanliness and sustainability…
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The local government of Pratapgarh City and company Wonder Cement have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the co-incineration of the area’s solid waste at the firm’s cement plant in Nimbahera, Pratapgarh City, Rajasthan.…
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As the WtE plant in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, is still not functional, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the plant’s private operator to take the garbage of Shimla to the Ambuja cement plant in…
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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation will commission the new AD plant in Puikhadi, Maharashtra, next week. According to The Times of India, the plant should process agricultural waste with a capacity of 5 tons of waste…
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As reported by The Hindu, the Indian capital is speeding up the process of increasing its incineration capacities. In accordance with Delhi’s administration, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation aims at building two new WtE plants…
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The Punjab government has been ordered by India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) to support the operator of the Bathinda WtE project in order to expand the RDF facility by another WtE unit. Moreover, the NGT…
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Some days after a part of the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi collapsed and killed two people, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal has ordered the municipal corporations to increase their waste processing by using the existing capacity as…
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According to The Times of India, the Devguradia WtE project in the state of Madhya Pradesh should be completed by 2019. Under the project, a facility with an electricity generation capacity of 20 MW is…
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A few days after the collapse of the Ghazipur landfill, one of Delhi’s four landfills (state of Uttar Pradesh), the local government of the city of Greater Noida stated to be aiming at accelerating the…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has been allotted a 50-acre expanse of land in Tekhand, Delhi. According to The Times of India, this will be used for the development of a scientific landfill along with…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to appoint IIT-Roorkee to conduct a techno-commercial analysis at their new Waste-to-Energy plant in Ramtekdi, Hadapsar, in the state of Maharashtra, at a cost of INR 8.26 lakh…
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As was stated by The Economic Times, British company Biomass Power Ltd. plans to invest in several new WtE projects in the Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Biomass Power Ltd.…
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A public hearing on the future of the Brahmapuram WtE project (also known as the Kochi WtE project) has been held on 25 August and only showed little results. As reported by The Hindu, the…
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As reported by The National Herald, the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication is planning to move its campus to Bishankedi to construct a nearby gaushala, a shelter for cows. According to the…
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According to The Times of India, due to an almost two-year-long delay in the implementation of the Secunderabad RDF project, the constructor of the project, PEC Limited, is now considering to pull out of the…
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According to The Times of India, the Kochi WtE project seems to be facing another delay, as the land on which the new WtE facility is to be built, seems to consist of paddy land…
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The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has opened a new facility to recycle construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Rohini, North West Delhi, as was reported by The Hindu. At the site, C&D waste is…
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According to Bloomberg, plans for a new WtE plant in Hyderabad, state of Telangana, seem to move forward. Indian company Sri Venkateswara Green Power Projects Ltd. has recently acquired a majority share of 51% of…
