Aafrin Kidwai
In a decisive move, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has issued notices and challans to residents welfare association for non-segregation of waste at the source. 1400 notices were issued and 122 residents were fined for…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Chandigarh Environment Standing Committee has taken cognizance of reports that segregated wastes collected door-to-door in Chandigarh is being dumped unsegregated at the landfill. Indian Express reports that committee chairman, former MP Pawan Kumar Bansal said…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Vizag’s Waste to Energy plant is likely to be functional by next month. Greater Vishakapatnam Municipal Corporation wants to leave a good impression on the Swacch Sarvekshan 2021 crew due in January and has thus…
Aafrin Kidwai
After Deonar, the BMC is now planning to set up a waste to energy plant at the Gorai dumping ground. The civic body has appointed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, to study the…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Pune Municipal Corporation has reportedly been dumping waste at an unauthorised area near its sanitary landfill in Ramtekdi since the last few days. Recently, the PMC had given an undertaking to Maharashtra Pollution Control…
Aafrin Kidwai
UP’s Meerut city has finally got its first Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Plant in-charge Saurabh Kumar Chaubey informed news agency ANI, “Entire garbage from city area is brought here, segregated and then treated for recycling.”…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kanpur Municipal Corporation claims that it has cleared nearly 8 lakh cubic metres of legacy waste within a span of 10 months, starting January 2020. Massive amounts of waste had accumulated at its defunct…
Aafrin Kidwai
A 19.8 MW waste to energy (WtE) plant at Jawahar Nagar was inaugurated today. It is the first Waste to Energy Plant in South India with a capacity to process about 1200 tonnes per day…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has planned to incentivize residents and the corporation’s staff in order to better manage the source-segregation of solid waste generated daily in the city. Officials told the Hindustan Times that starting…
Aafrin Kidwai
Anticipating that no bidders are likely to qualify for setting up of the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim, the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) may relax the criteria for bidders and float a fresh…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Great Hyderabad Municipal Commission (GHMC) might soon finalise the formal commissioning of a new 19MW waste-to-energy plant in the Jawaharnagar dump yard. The GHMC has been already working on the project along with Ramky…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Rs 1,100 crore Deonar waste-to-energy plant proposal has been cleared by the BMC standing committee. The contract was allotted to the lowest bidder-Chennai M S W Pvt Ltd, without any discussion in the standing…
Aafrin Kidwai
Work on Kerala’s first waste-to-energy (WtE) plant at Njeliyanparamba, Kozhikode has begun. The WtE plant is being set up on 12.67 acres of Corporation land by Zonta Infratech Private Limited. The ₹250-crore project is expected…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Vapi Nagarpalika in Gujarat has informed the NGT that 50 tonnes of waste is generated every day within its municipality limits. Following a complaint of improper waste management, the civic body has reported that…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Owing to the pandemic, Ayudha Puja and Vijayadashami celebrations have been low-key, leading to reduced festival waste generation as per office of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) cell of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Durgapur-based CSIR institute’s decentralised solid waste processing facility has devised a new technology that can be installed at residential complexes, shopping complexes, to convert all waste into useful end products, including plastic. As per a…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has plans to establish 50 transfer stations where municipal solid waste collected from households can be directly dumped into portable compactors to be transported to waste processing plants. Five…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Last week’s heavy downpour and floods in Hyderabad have led to the generation of nearly 20,000-tonne garbage. The civic body has claimed to remove 10.386 tonnes in the last four days. This was done as…
Aafrin Kidwai
Isgec has won an order for setting up a 11.5 MW waste to energy plant for the Karnataka Power Corporation to be set up in Bidadi, an industrial hub located 32 km from Bengaluru. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
Four companies participated in the pre-bid meeting for the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim. A senior official said that bidders appreciated the tender document and sought relaxation in criteria for the bidding process and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Power Corporations Limited (KPCL) will set up an 11.5 MW waste to energy (WTE) plant at the cost of Rs 260 crore in Bidadi in the next two years. The KPCL clarified that the plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) will soon put into action its plan to transform waste generated in the twin cities into torrefied charcoal that will be used at thermal power plants in lieu of fossil…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) inspection of three waste to energy plants in Delhi has resulted in the discovery of high cadmium levels in fly ash at Bawana and Ghazipur plants. A report was…
Aanchal Bansal
Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri aims for number one spot in Swachta Survekshan survey by removing legacy waste at landfill site and setting up centralised waste segregation and recycling units, reports SolidWasteIndia’s Aanchal Bansal After grabbing the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is planning to implement a decentralised waste management system for proper disposal of solid waste in residential sectors of Greater Noida. Five clusters will be formed across all sectors…
Aafrin Kidwai
As much as 74 per cent of municipal solid waste generated in cities and towns of Gujarat was dumped without any processing during five-year period of 2014-19, says a report tabled by the Comptroller and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has invited bids for setting up a solid waste processing facility at Bainguinim with a processing capacity of 250 tonnes per day. The plant, estimated to cost Rs 200…
Aafrin Kidwai
Trials to produce electricity from waste has begun at the solid waste management plant at Bhariyal, located on the outskirts of Shimla. Around two-kilowatt power is being produced during the trials every day. The waste-to-energy…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttarakhand government has set a one-year deadline to dispose of around 28 lakh metric tonnes of ‘legacy waste’ that has been piling up over 20 years. The state government is planning to treat the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, in association with several non-profit organisations, has deployed a network of rag pickers in three wards, for door-to-door collection of dry waste. In a month’s time, about 38 wards will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is all set to set up five more dry waste collection centres to process and reuse dry waste, near stationary compactor stations in the twin cities. HDMC had set up a…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, has told the Kerala government that it may consider imprisonment of bureaucrats who fail to comply with its orders seeking action against those responsible…
Aafrin Kidwai
Two consortiums have submitted their technical and financial bids for the Waste to Energy project in Brahmapuram. These include: Zonta Infratech Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru; Zonta Bauer Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Bauer GmbH, Germany; CNIM Martin Pvt.…
Aafrin Kidwai
Leachate from Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg dumpyard and stagnant water have killed fish over a two-hectare mangrove forests’ area an environmentalist group has said, filing complaints with various state bodies and the Bombay high court-appointed wetland grievance…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has resolved to approve the proposal of the Goa Waste Management Corporation for the installation of seven modular garbage treatment machines at Sonsoddo. The seven machines with a capacity of…
Aafrin Kidwai
Bengaluru’s Ward no. 104, Govindrajnagar became the first ward to implement the BBMP’s new model of segregated collection & transportation (C&T) of solid waste as wet, dry and sanitary. Covered vehicles with GPS and public…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has announced plans for “garbage factories” at each of the city’s five zones. Once operational, door-to-door collection vehicles will not dump the collected waste outside localities at open dumping stations (from…
Aafrin Kidwai
The tender document for construction of a 250 tonne per day (TPD) solid waste treatment plant (SWTP) at Bainguinim is expected soon, suggest media reports. In June, the government had decided to keep the tender…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has decided to initiate prosecution proceedings against the Kochi Corporation secretary for the unscientific handling of waste at the Brahmapuram plant. Besides facing legal action, the civic body will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued its order to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and the SDM, Mayapuri regarding allegations of failure to manage waste bin (Dhalao) at Mayapuri Industrial Area Phase-II, New…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has extended the validity of the generic tariff Rs 7.08 / kWh for waste to energy (WTE) projects in the state. (Read the Order document here). The validity of…
Aafrin Kidwai
Goa’s Solid Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo, during a visit to the Sonsoddo plant, has proposed a plan for eight small modular garbage treatment plants at the site amidst tonnes of untreated garbage. He assured to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mysuru district administration and zilla panchayat are planning to set up multiple waste processing units on the city’s outskirts. The ZP has received Rs 2.1 crore under Swachh Bharat mission to set up such…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a notice to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for non-compliance regarding solid waste at the landfill site. PMC has been warned against dumping fresh garbage at the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) has identified a 21-acre government plot at Govindpur for establishing a waste-to-energy plant. The proposed waste-to-energy (WtE) plant and dumping yard is expected to produce 6MW of electricity per day. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttarakhand government has announced plans to set up six new plants to generate electricity from solid waste. Madan Kaushik, minister for urban development in the state has asked officials to make a detailed plan…
Aafrin Kidwai
Heaps of garbage along NOIDA’s roads and drains are drawing the ire of local residents and activists, who complain that Noida Authorities have failed to take action despite repeated complaints. Admittedly, scenes of garbage piled…
Aafrin Kidwai
Patiala’s 55-year-old garbage dumping ground on Sanaur Road is finally being removed. The municipal corporation is hiring a firm to carry out scientific segregation of waste at the site. Patiala mayor Mr Sanjeev Sharma Bittu…
Aafrin Kidwai
At least ten companies have evinced interest in the Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant. A meeting was organised by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) through video conferencing late last week in view of the COVID-19…
Aafrin Kidwai
This was an event worth attending. Focussed on the challenges and way forward in COVID-19 waste management, the hour-long online panel discussion organized by the Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CECCSD), Impact…
