Aafrin Kidwai
A delegation of officials from the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon who visited the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Sonipat have concluded that more land area is required to set up a sanitary landfill and wet waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
In an effort to fulfil circular economy objectives while minimising waste, oil and gas company Shell, has announced the development of a used oil management service to organise India’s waste oil disposal system and to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Flipkart Group has pledged to establish a challenging net-zero goal, decarbonizing its own activities by 2030 and the wider value chain by 2040. Being the only Indian e-commerce company in India to pledge to…
Aafrin Kidwai
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.…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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,…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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,…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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…
Aafrin Kidwai
Eco-Green Energy Pvt Ltd, hired by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation for door-to-door waste collection, will now have to submit daily status reports to the office of city mayor. The company has also been asked to…
Aafrin Kidwai
IKEA Social Entrepreneurship has partnered with Saahas Zero Waste on a pilot programme to transform, through three waste management micro-entrepreneurs, the informal waste sector in India. The result of the programme will be that informal…
Aafrin Kidwai
France-based CNIM Group recently announced it was facing financial and operational problems in its Environment and Energy business. A few international projects were also reportedly affected as a result of this development. Today, CNIM Martin…
Aafrin Kidwai
Preparations are underway for the Clean India Expo, which will be organized by the Exhibitions India Group from March 23 to 25 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The expo was conceptualised to promote the initiatives…
Aafrin Kidwai
Antony Waste Handling Cell has shared that its total operating revenue, including tipping revenue from collection and transportation, mechanical power sweeping and waste processing for Q3 FY22 grew about 22% Y-o-Y (year-on-year), while remaining stable…
Aafrin Kidwai
Hyderabad-based waste management firm Recykal has raised a funding of $22 million from Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure. This is the second institutional fundraise by the company after a $4 million round in 2020. Existing investors…
Aafrin Kidwai
Antony Waste Handling Cell’s subsidiary, AG Enviro Infra Projects, has received a letter of intent (LoI) for door-to-door collection and transportation (C&T) of municipal solid waste (MSW) from the Sadar Paharganj Zone of North Delhi…
Aafrin Kidwai
The World Bank Group today has announced the 20-month debarment of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) in connection with a fraudulent practice as part of the Capacity Building for Industrial Pollution Management Project in India. The debarment makes REEL and its Managing Director, Mr. M. Goutham Reddy, ineligible to participate in projects and operations…
Haridharan Krishnan
CII’s exclusive session on Turning Waste To Worth: Poland’s Know-How and Technology Proposal For India earlier this week highlighted the best and innovative practices of Polish companies, while exploring potential partnership opportunities. Here are some of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The last session of the CII’s Waste to Worth Conference on November 17, titled ‘Untapped Potential – Challenges and Opportunities in Integrated/ Decentralized Waste Management in India focussed on WtE, decentralized biogas, bio-CNG, RDF and compost…
Aafrin Kidwai
The second session on Day 2 of the CII’s Waste to Worth Conference focussed on ‘Sustainable Management of SCF/ RDF from MSW in Cement Kilns and WtE Plants. Moderated by Mr Ulhas Parlikar – Global Consultant –…
Aafrin Kidwai
Moderated by Ms Bineesha P, Member- ECC, Office of the PSA, GoI and Executive Director, IIWM, Session 1 on Day 2 of the CII’s Virtual Waste to Worth Conference saw founders of various start-ups sharing their innovative solutions…
Aafrin Kidwai
The second session on Day 1 of the CII’s virtual Waste to Worth Conference on Plastic Recycling, EPR and Beyond and saw an intense discussion on the opportunities and challenges in EPR compliance by Brands, PROs, and Recyclers; challenges…
Aafrin Kidwai
The third and last session of the inaugural day of the CII’s Virtual Waste to Worth Conference focussed on India’s e-waste landscape and addressed the status of India’s e-waste management ecosystem, challenges and potential paths for improvements,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The CII’s Waste to Worth Conference kickstarted this afternoon with a panel discussion on Models & Best Practices for Waste Management. This session focused on existing waste management systems, models, and best practices across India and abroad…
Aafrin Kidwai
With the theme of ‘Moving towards a Circular Economy through innovative 3R approaches’, the CII’s digital Conference on Waste to Worth was inaugurated on Tuesday morning by Prof Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and H.E. Mr. Adam Burakowski,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has constituted a committee to examine the billing and auditing of private concessionaires managing municipal waste collection and transportation in its zones. A panel has been appointed for the…
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Indian cement producer JK Cement has recently signed an MoU with biomass aggregation and densification entity Punjab Renewable Energy Systems (PRESPL), as reported by EquityBulls. The partners agreed on a 10-year supply contract for biomass…
Aafrin Kidwai
Ramky Enviro has inaugurated a new biogas plant at the Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HiMSW) site. The project is focused on conversion of landfill gas into compressed biogas as an automotive fuel. The plant converts…
Aafrin Kidwai
A year into its existing contract with Amritsar Municipal Corporation, Averda has announced another contract with the city for waste management, recycling and treatment in the majority of Amritsar. The waste management company has been…
Aafrin Kidwai
WasteAid, a UK-based international NGO, has announced two winners of its Zero Waste Cities Challenge in Guwahati. Local entrepreneurs from Shree Guru Plastic and Inside Out each won €10,000 and six months of business mentoring…
Aafrin Kidwai
Robotics startup Ishitva Robotic Systems (IRS) has raised over $1 million as part of its Pre-Series A round, led by Inflection Point Ventures. The funds raised will be deployed to grow sales and expand Ishitva’s…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has fined EcoGreen Energy Pvt Ltd for breach of contract and failure to operate the Shivri solid waste treatment plant at full capacity. A Rs 2.2 crore fine has been…
Aafrin Kidwai
Huhtamaki, a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, has partnered with RiverRecycle and VTT to develop technology to tackle floating river waste in Mumbai. The new river waste collection…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh each on three waste-to-energy (WtE) plants and a construction and demolition waste processing plant for contributing to air pollution. The East…
Aafrin Kidwai
Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) generated electricity by processing approximately 15,000 tons of plastic waste during the fiscal year 2018-19 (Apr-Mar), according to the company’s annual report. In addition, HUL collected and safely disposed of approximately…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following some uncertainties, the Pune civic body has said it will extend its contract with SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling). There is some resistance from certain groups which claim that it is wrong to…
