Aafrin Kidwai
Four more trommel machines will be deployed at the Bhalswa landfill site to process the waste at a greater speed, says North Delhi mayor Jai Prakash. The mountainous dump in northwest Delhi is one of the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Gujarat based company Varun Constructions has been awarded the contract for setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) site at Dadumajra for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. Work is expected to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is set to convert two new quarry pits at Mittaganahalli and Bagalur into landfills to dump waste generated by citizens. The quarry landfill at Mittaganahalli, where over 2,000 tonnes…
Moumita Bhattacharya
After piling up unprocessed waste at Patvi dumping site for 12 years, Haryana has kickstarted operations to settle the waste on site. Following the National Green Tribunal’s instructions, a private company has been assigned the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against unidentified people in connection with the fire at Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi that started on Tuesday night and continued through Wednesday. As the landfill fire…
Aafrin Kidwai
Noida plans to discontinue the temporary dumping site in Sector 145 and replace it with the permanent landfill site in Dostpur Mangroli on Yamuna Pushta. The Noida Authority has identified the site which is located…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to approach the district administration and Maharashtra state government for a piece of land in order to set up a waste processing unit and manage waste scientifically. At…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bombay High Court has allowed the Pune Municipal Corporation to access dumping sites at Phursungi and Uruli Devachi on an undertaking that it will conduct biomining activities only – and not dump unprocessed garbage.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Chief Secretary and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to look into the issue of availability of suitable land for solid waste management at Ranikhera in north west…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Two years after the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) tasked Ms. Biomining India Pvt Ltd to clear the Mulund dumping site, only 10% of the waste has been treated. In 2018, the contractor was…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has filed a report before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) regarding the treatment of waste at its abandoned dump yard in Kureepuzha, Kollam. Most recently, the site was…
Aafrin Kidwai
The NGT has expressed dissatisfaction regarding the management of legacy wastes in West Bengal. The bench has described the capping of the mountain of legacy wastes without biomining as illegal according to the solid waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) will be setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) at Dadumajra for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. Spread over 8 acres, the site will be…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Panvel Municipal Corporation has made it mandatory for housing societies to segregate waste at source as the capacity of the Taloja dumping ground is likely to soon get over soon. The ghanta gadi will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that landfill-pit is not a ‘plant and machinery’ but a ‘civil-structure’. The ruling was made in the case of the applicant, M/S Mother Earth Environ Tech…
Aafrin Kidwai
East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has employed 12 trommel machines to clear 2,400 tonnes of legacy waste at the Ghazipur landfill every day. East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir personally visited the site and shared a…
Aafrin Kidwai
The wildlife department has written to the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), warning against spillage of leachate from the Bandhwari landfill into the surrounding Aravalli forests. The department’s notice to the MCG, reports the Hindustan…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ajithsingh Nagar dump yard reclamation project is finally complete. Sharing the news on a social media platform, Mr Nagesh Prabhu Chinivartha, Co-Founder and Director – Zigma Global Environ Solutions Pvt Ltd, which implemented the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The UN-HABITAT organized an exclusive webinar for municipal officials and waste experts on Japan’s highly successful Fukuoka Method of landfilling (details regarding the technology are given below), a semi-aerobic landfill disposal technology for solid waste,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) will conduct a second laboratory test to gauge the “safety” of leachate at the Bandhwari landfill. This move comes after several experts and activists found possible errors in…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had decided that all solid waste collected from the areas newly merged into the city will henceforth go to the Pirana dumpsite. The AMC has asked the concerned zone to…
Aafrin Kidwai
Noida’s much-hyped waste segregation project launched last July has failed to make much headway, partly due to the Covid-19 outbreak – but also due to its own efficiencies. Almost a year ago, when the project…
Aafrin Kidwai
Gurugram will soon begin diverting its waste from Bandhwari to Farrukhnagar landfill. Vinay Pratap Singh, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) announced that 1,100 TPD waste produced by the city will be dumped and processed…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has begun covering the dump and lifting the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) stacked at Sonsoddo. Over the weekend, seven machines started baling waste, which will be sent to the cement…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a 25-acre sanitary landfill within KINFRA’s new petrochemicals park at Ambalamugal near Kochi. The landfill is intended for the proper disposal of solid…
Aafrin Kidwai
Waste management company Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd. has announced a significant investment in Zigma Global Environ Solutions Pvt Ltd (Zigma), one of India’s largest landfill mining companies. Zigma specializes in landfill mining and…
Aafrin Kidwai
In its status report on the bioremediation and bio-mining process at three landfills in Delhi, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) of several lapses. As per the report,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB) has filed its report with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on a waste disposal dump yard set up on the bank of the Khoh river in Ratanpur village…
Aafrin Kidwai
Despite informing the National Green Tribunal that it would stop dumping fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill site from March 15, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) continues to dump waste there. Reason: It does…
Aafrin Kidwai
In the backdrop of confirmed Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases in Pune, the Pune Municipal Corporation and city residents are at loggerheads regarding garbage disposal. The Hindustan Times reports that since the last 10 days, residents of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) to clear civic waste dumped in an undesignated landfill in Indirapuram’s Shakti Khand area. The Tribunal gave 30 days to the civic body…
Aafrin Kidwai
From March 15, the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad will no longer dump their fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill. Instead, they will process it at alternative sites in Basai (Gurugram) and Sihi…
Aafrin Kidwai
A proposal to create a 30-acre dumpsite in Faridabad’s Pali Mohbtabad village to divert fresh waste away from the Bandhwari landfill, has been scrapped by the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad. The Hindustan Times…
Aafrin Kidwai
Over six years after disposal of the ‘legacy’ waste of 4 lakh tonne solid waste at landfill site Nakravadi was halted, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has resumed work. The disposal of municipal solid waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The toxic solid waste landfill site near the Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) at Khajod has now transformed into lush green lawns spread over 30 hectare land. SDB is coming up on 35 acres land at…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has found a new way to fight growing plastic pollution: by appointing an agency to segregate plastic from the landfill for recycling. The Times of India reports that MCC appointed…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following the National Green Tribunal’s directive, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is taking all possible measures to clear the landfill site at Dhapa completely by the next two years. The Solid Waste Management (SWM) department…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Noida authority has identified a permanent landfill site in Dostpur Mangraui village, facing sectors 162 and 164 between the Yamuna checkdam and the DFCC corridor that is under construction. The project proposal has been…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Chennai Corporation has started biomining of the 50-year-old landfill in Sathangadu near Tiruvottriyur in North Chennai. The GCC says it will be wrapped up by early 2022. The New Indian Express reports that…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sought an extension (for the seventeenth time, as per some news reports) on a Bombay High Court deadline to stop dumping of solid waste at the Deonar site. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing a severe garbage collection problem with no space left to dump waste at the Mittaganahalli quarry landfill. The crisis came to a head on Wednesday when mounds of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) faces a penalty of Rs 14.4 crore if it fails to revive the Shivri solid waste treatment plant within two weeks. The Times of India reports that a show cause…
Aafrin Kidwai
The seven-layer capping at Jawaharnagar dump yard, one of the biggest initiatives in the country in municipal solid waste management, has been completed, reports Telangana Today. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) had taken up…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has submitted an application in the Bombay High Court seeking extension for the closure of the Deonar dumping ground. The civic body has made little progress in setting up a waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City) Municipal Corporation has stopped dumping garbage at the environmentally sensitive Mollar Bheri ground and will dispose of its waste at the Dhapa facility. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has granted it…
Aafrin Kidwai
A survey report prepared for formulating the solid waste management policy for the state, says that currently North Goa generates 467 tonne of waste per day while South Goa generates 299 tonne of waste every…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has directed its sanitation wing to stop dumping waste at the Ajith Singh Nagar dumpsite immediately and prepare an action plan for the upcoming public park at the site. Last…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Chennai Corporation has finalized a proposal to bio-remediate Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dumpyard at a cost of Rs 1,250 crore. The New Indian Express reports that the proposal is likely to be reviewed by the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following the directive of the High Court (HC) of Bombay at Goa, Goa authorities will begin remediation work of the Sonsoddo dump yard on Thursday. The HC had given a deadline of December 15 for…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bombay High Court (HC) has given the green signal for the expansion of the Kanjurmarg landfill site. In September, HC had issued a stay on the expansion, following a public interest litigation challenging the…
