Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Amritsar (MC) has started the process of bioremediation of garbage at Bhagtanwala dump again. Recently, the Amritsar MSW Company Limited started the functioning of two machines for garbage bioremediation under the…
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The Karnataka government will soon set up waste treatment plants at Kesare and Rayanakere on the outskirts of Mysuru. The Mysuru City Corporation commissioner Gurudatta Hegde said the government has sanctioned Rs 41 crore to…
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The Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) has identified 17.81 acres of land for establishing a garbage processing or waste to energy plant, under phase II of a Rs 274 crore project. The Telegraph Online reports that…
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Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), NTPC and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of waste-to-energy facilities at SDMC’s landfill site in Okhla. As per the…
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The Solid Waste Management Department of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has proposed bioremediation of about four lakh metric tonnes (MT) of legacy waste, at the open landfill in Makarpura, at a cost of Rs…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has announced it will extend it’s Waste to Energy program beyond March 31, 2020. The program will continue without any changes in its scope, nature or coverage. In…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has sent a letter to Kochi corporation authorities asking them to lease out around 22 acres of land at Brahmapuram for setting up a Waste to Energy (WtE)…
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Following the Centre’s policy announcement to boost the use of bio-fuels earlier this year, funding difficulties for waste-to-energy projects reportedly continue. Banks have maintained a cautious and guarded approach over funding these power projects, especially…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has canceled its proposed waste to energy and waste to bio-CNG projects. It will, however, continue with compost, material recovery facility (MRF), and reuse of construction and demolition waste projects.…
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A deadline of December 2020 has been fixed for the commercial operation of the waste-to-energy (WtE) power project by the JIFT Urban Infrastructure Limited at Kapuluppada under the limits of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation…
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The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has directed UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) and Ecogreen Energy Lucknow Pvt Ltd to come up with a firm agreement for the amended power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 13.5 MW municipal…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in coordination with Telangana State Pollution Control Board is planning to install one more dust bin in addition to the wet and dry waste bins. The additional bin is…
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Disposable masks are quickly piling up across cities, posing a major challenge for waste management authorities. These items are not recycled since they are considered hazardous and are being stacked at dry waste collection centres…
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Belgian Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat in India for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The first…
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The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has set up a three-member team for door-to-door collection of biomedical waste from homes of coronavirus affected patient and its disposal in a scientific manner. A senior municipal official…
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The 55-day lockdown has reduced hundreds of tonnes of garbage generation in temple city, Tirupati. All the hotels, restaurants and fast food centres were shut for the last two months and solid waste generation has…
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The Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant has suffered yet another setback. The Local Self Government Department has asked the Kochi Corporation to terminate the Concession Agreement executed with GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd, the company entrusted with…
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It is applicable to units that will become commercially operational between 2020-21 and 2023-24 With a view to encouraging generation of power from solid waste in cities in the State, particularly in Hyderabad, Telangana State…
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The 21-day lockdown announced by the Prime Minister owing to Covid-19 is having an impact on garbage generation across Indian cities. In Mumbai, MidDay reports that after the first day of curfew on Monday, garbage…
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The government has given its nod for a grant of Rs 478 crore to the waste-to-energy (WTE) programme for the remaining period of the financial year 2019-20. This includes a Central Financial Assistance (CFA) of Rs 400 crore…
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The West Bengal Municipal Affairs department has directed all municipalities in the state to devise means of waste processing facility (WPF) through which wet and dry waste can be processed separately. The WPF system will…
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The State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on solid waste management has said that the use of biodegradable and recyclable non-biodegradable waste at the proposed waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram may not be viable. The Hindu reports…
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The National Green Tribunal has found that machinery at a solid waste management (SWM) plant in Dadumajra is generating a high amount of dioxins into the environment, beyond permissible limits. A monitoring committee appointed by…
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The Mohali government has handed over 40 acres out of the total 50 acres allotted for a waste-to-energy plant in Samgoli village of Dera Bassi to the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC). The Hindustan Times reports…
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Chennai’s first-ever dry-waste incineration plant at Manali in North Chennai is ready to run at full capacity. The plant will process 10 tonnes of dry waste in 20 hours each day. Over the last few…
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Biomining has begun at the dump yard in Ariyamangalam in Trichy. However, at present, only 800 MT of waste will be processed by the biomining plant. The quantity will be increased to 1,400 MT when…
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Himachal Pradesh has set up two waste management plants across the state. One of them is of 1.75 MW with an outlay of Rs 42 crore in Shimla, while another is of 1 MW in…
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NTPC, India’s largest power producer, has successfully implemented a technology to convert Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into high Gross Caloric Value (GCV) fuel that can be co-fired in conventional boilers at its Dadri plant in…
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BMC’s standing committee has cleared a proposal to award the contract for an automatic waste segregation facility on a one-acre plot at Cuffe Parade to Ahmedabad’s Nepra Resource Management. The plot will be leased for free to the contractor…
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The West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the purchase of surplus power from a waste gas-based generating project, located at Chhatna in the Bankura district of West Bengal.…
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The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has allowed the Okhla waste-to-energy plant to increase its power generation from 16 MW to 23 MW by amending the environmental clearance the plant had received in…
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An 11 MW Waste-to-Energy plant being built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) at Pirana will be operational by the end of the year. The AMC has entered power purchase agreements with two companies that…
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The Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL) has announced that it will set up a waste-to-energy plant in Assam. The facility will be established near the proposed integrated solid waste management facility (ISWMF) of the…
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The Government has issued an order converting the concessional agreement signed between the Kochi Corporation and GJ Eco Power Private Ltd., the company entrusted with the construction of the waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram, into a…
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The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has commissioned the country’s first government-run Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant at Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. This WtE plant, a patented technology called Polycrack, is the first…
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Belgian waste to energy technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The project will…
Aafrin Kidwai
Kolkata has proposed to introduce biomining for the first time in the city to tackle its Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) problem. The project will be undertaken at the Mollar Bheri dumping ground. A portion of…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has planned to open at least eight plants this year to process around 1,700 tonnes of waste daily. Open dumping has been banned at the Uruli Devachi dumping site but…
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The Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has launched a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) at Bhawania Pokhri, Belupur. The facility has been started in Public Private Partnership mode with Tetra Pak, GIZ and TERI as part of…
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the government plans to construct centralized Waste to Energy (WtE) plants in six districts of the state. The projects will be undertaken in Kollam, Thrissur, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram,…
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The Punjab government has decided to build a 7MW waste to energy plant at Simgauli in Mohali district. The plant, spread over an area of 50 acres, will be designed to generate electricity of 600…
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A new waste segregation centre has been inaugurated in Bandurakh, Jammu. State Times reports that the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), which presently implements door-to-door garbage collection in 53 wards, has launched a pilot project to…
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In 2019, Srinagar generated nearly 5000 metric tons of solid waste of which 70 per cent remained unsegregated while 30 percent was fully segregated via mechanical segregator. Rising Kashmir quotes Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Commissioner,…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) might have finally found bidders for the Rs 600 crore Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant to be constructed at the Deonar dumping ground. The BMC first started the bidding process for the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has turned down an appeal challenging the environmental clearance given to the Bandhwari Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in Gurugram. The NGT has refused to interfere with the Environment Ministry’s clearance for…
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Andhra Pradesh’s first Waste-to-Energy plant in Guntur is nearing completion. Explains Mr M V Chary, President – Projects, Jindal Urban Waste Management (Guntur) Limited, which is implementing the project, “Around 90 per cent work on the…
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The Kerala government has approved two new Waste-to-Energy plants (WtE) plants in the state. One plant will be set-up at Kanjikode (Palakkad) and another in Kannur. Each project is expected to cost between Rs 120…
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The West Bengal government has revealed details of its plan for bio-mining at Dhapa, which will help reduce the 35-metre tall mound of garbage accumulated at the decades-old site. The recovered waste will be sent…
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The Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) has decided to make separate compartments for dry, wet and biomedical waste in its garbage collection vans as part of its effort to segregate waste at the collection point. Separate…
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The Chairperson of Andhra Pradesh’s State-level Expert Committee for Protection of Environment Mr T Chatterjee has said there is a need to set up more waste-to-energy plants. Mr Chatterjee expressed his views during a visit…
