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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to establish two new facilities for the management of wet waste collected from its wards, including a windrow composting plant and three other green garbage processing facilities. The…
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Over the last six years, the Horticulture Department Kashmir has distributed 3661 vermicompost units to farmers in order to recycle organic material into rich and usable soil. From 2014-16 to 2020-21, 2553 are covered by…
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Two years after they were built, the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation issued tenders to run 22 micro composting centers (MCC) with the assistance of commercial partners. A competent agency will be picked to administer and maintain…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has launched a special project to source segregate organic waste and produce compost from wet waste using an eco-friendly aerobic composting technology. The West Zone authorities launched Project S.O.R.T.…
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The Chennai civic body has earned over Rs 64 lakh in less than month – that is, since May 27 – by selling over 85 lakh kg of manure produced in its composting centres. The…
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The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved a case of recovery from Ecoman Enviro Solutions Pvt Limited after its ten thermal composting plants failed to function in the last ten years.…
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The Madras High Court has allowed the setting up of micro-compost centres (MCC) in parks and playgrounds across Coimbatore. The civic body had proposed to decentralize waste collection and disposal by constructing MCCs at 69…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has revealed its earnings from composting in the last three months: Rs 1.59 lakh. The income was generated through the sale of compost generated at the Bhandewadi dumping yard. In…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has announced strict action against bulk waste generators who fail to manage their wet waste on-site. The MCC has declared a three-month deadline for all bulk generators to start processing…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is planning to revive the usage of aerobic bins in the city. Over the years, a total of 520 such bin units were installed at 52 locations to process biodegradable waste at…
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Starting today, the Pune Municipal Corporation ( PMC) will stop lifting wet trash from the premises of bulk waste generators not processing wet garbage at the source, reports The Times of India. According to the…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to clear tonnes of second-grade compost by distributing it free of cost to local farmers. The BBMP is also distributing first-grade compost to the farmers at Rs…
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`Mo Khata’ or ‘My Compost’ generated from waste and sold at various designated outlets across Odisha’s urban areas is generating an encouraging response. As many as 110 of the 114 urban local bodies (ULBs) in…
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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to focus on home composting in big residential housing societies and is planning to rope in non-government organisations (NGOs) for helping the housing societies in carrying out this…
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The Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has undertaken the work of clearing the debris off the Adharwadi dumping ground and levelling it after which the work of development of a garden will begin. KDMC…
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The Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in a scientific manner including processing waste –to-compost and other processes. The Government has introduced a policy on the promotion of City Compost…
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The Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) has dropped its plan to set up a municipal solid waste plant which was proposed more than a decade back but failed to take off. Instead, the civic body has…
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The monitoring committee of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to impose bank guarantees on the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) for failing to implement proper solid waste management measures…
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A Covid Care Centre (CCC) in Mysuru has set up compost pits (pic) to recycle food waste at the centre. The CCC at Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) near the Mandakalli airport is run by…
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A new study on the solid waste composition and various solid waste treatment technologies in the rural areas of India and other countries has found that the solid waste generated in rural areas comprisemore than…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has started providing home composting kits to apartment owners, despite opposition from gated community residents against the VMC’s decision to categorise them as Bulk Waste Generators (BWGs). According to the New…
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In order to control garbage dumping in open spaces, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is planning to put a check on bulk waste generators by making it compulsory for them to convert their waste into compost.…
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The Kuberpur landfill in Agra will start operations today. The plant, developed with an investment of Rs 11.27 crore, has the capacity to convert 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) of waste into compost. According…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to set up biomethanation and composting units in all wards to make them zero wet waste discharge areas. Segregated garbage from households and commercial establishments in each…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started work on a plan to develop a mega-unit with a capacity of 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) for processing the biodegradable waste to compost. It will be…
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A biogas and composting plant is planned to be built on a 1-acre site in Mohishgote, near New Town, Kolkata. As was reported by The Telegraph, the plant will process vegetable and fruit waste collected…
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According to The New Indian Express, the municipality of Jagatsinghpur intends to install a MRF and micro composting centre (MCC) at a cost of INR 15 to 20 lakhs. Until now the realization of the…
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The urban bodies in the federal state of Madhya Pradesh have been divided into 26 clusters for solid waste management. Amongst others, plans have been proposed for setting up 20 composting plants across the state.…
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According to local media reports, the announced RDF plant, which should be constructed at the Vellalore landfill, is planned to have a treatment capacity of 600 tpd. Furthermore, Switzerland-based NGO International Council for Local Environmental…
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The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has approved power purchase agreements (PPA) for four paddy straw-fuelled biomass projects with a total capacity of 49.8 MW, as Mercom India reported. The PPAs were signed by the…
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A composting plant has been opened in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, as part of a municipal programme aimed at improving the waste infrastructure in the city, according to an article by Waste Management World. The programme is…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Agra Municipal Corporation is currently building a composting plant in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The source does not comment on the size of the composting facility. The plant…
