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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced plans for the production of biomass briquettes from municipal biowaste as well as a biomass processing unit in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The briquettes should be produced from biowaste such…
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The Mysuru City Corporation, Karnataka, is proposing a new C&D waste recycling plant in Mysuru. It is to be set up in Sathagalli on a 9-acre plot. The future plant should extract metal from construction…
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Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation plans to set up a 50 tpd C&D waste recycling plant at the landfill in Ariyamangalam in Tiruchirappalli (also called Tiruchi or Trichy), Tamil Nadu. The project has been under consideration…
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A new C&D waste recycling plant is under construction in Langadiyawas, Jaipur District, Rajasthan. According to the source, works are in their final stages and the plant is to become operational soon. The new facility…
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The construction of the C&D waste recycling plant in Nashik, Maharashtra, has reportedly started after a delay of more than 3 years. Commissioning is scheduled for March 2024 already. The plant is worth INR 70…
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The Chief Minister of Delhi has inaugurated a C&D waste recycling facility in Jahangirpuri, Delhi. The plant is expected to process 2,000 tpd on an area of 7 acres. Waste collected from across Delhi is…
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The Bombay High Court has now requested that the biomedical waste (BMW) plant in Patalganga, Maharashtra, should be completed within 2 years. As of August 2023, the High Court asked the state and civic authorities…
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Kolkata Municipal Corporation has directed the Public Works Department to send waste from buildings demolished by the Municipality to the Pathuriaghata C&D waste recycling plant in Kolkata, West Bengal. The facility was commissioned in April…
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According to the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister of Telangana, three new C&D waste processing plants are planned to be set up in the state. They are to be located in Nalgonda, Sangareddy, and…
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In the municipality of Delhi, three AD plants are operational for a testing phase. The plants are located in Goyla, Gogha, and Nangli and should have a processing capacities of 200 tpd of livestock manure…
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The Indore City Government has announced the set up of a Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste plant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The facility is planned to process 200 tpd of waste. The planned construction was…
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The Madurai Corporation is planning to build a construction and demolition waste processing plant at the Vellaikal dumping yard, which will be able to process 100 tonnes of waste per day. The estimated cost of…
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Kolkata has inaugurated its first Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant, spanning across 5 acres in New Town with a capacity of 1600 tonnes per day. The facility is being operated by Re Sustainability…
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SAEL Industries on Friday said it has signed an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a loan of up to Rs 754 crore to promote agricultural waste-to-energy plants in India. Each year farmers…
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The proposed C&D waste recycling plant in Nashik, Maharashtra, is now scheduled to become operational within 6 months. A corresponding deadline was set by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC). The NMC also identified a site…
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Addressing participants at a workshop in Chandigarh, Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav commended the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to substantially bring down the paddy farm fire counts during…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has announced that it will build a facility to treat 100 tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D) waste each day. The civic body has issued a tender to select a company…
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The BMC is preparing to address the issue of construction waste removal proactively. A request for proposals has been made by the Solid Waste Management (SWM) division to hire 16 JCB machines, 35 dumpers, and…
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The Navi Mumbai municipal commissioner Rajesh Narvekar inspected the Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Treatment Project in Turbhe and directed the Solid Waste Management (SWM) department to make the project fully operational at the earliest.…
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Three months after the Supertech twin towers in Noida were demolished, about 60 percent of the construction and demolition (C&D) waste has been removed from the site, even though the final day to collect the…
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Another C&D waste facility is being planned in Vellalore, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. The location has been chosen by Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC). The facility should cost INR 60 million (EUR 700,000). The Tamil…
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The Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) has said that it will issue closure notices to 1800 healthcare facilities in the state for failing to adhere to biomedical waste (BMW) disposal rules. The BSPCB said…
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A committee has been established by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to investigate a complaint that industrial units in the Uttar Pradesh town of Muzaffarnagar’s Bhopa Thana are dumping coal ash and hazardous waste along…
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Exactly one month after the demolition of the Supertech twin towers, the Noida authority met with Edifice Engineering to discuss the ongoing debris removal work. It instructed Edifice Engineering to remove the debris by November…
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The Najafgarh zone of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has organized a two-day cleanliness drive to dispose of non-hazardous construction waste. The drive will conclude on Sunday. The civic body has organized the pilot…
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The development of a construction waste recycling plant in Rajarhat, West Bengal, is nearing completion. As further announced by an official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), it should start operating in late October 2022.…
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Waste from construction projects and debris across Nagpur will be recycled. These materials are now being gathered by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). For this project, NMC has hired Re Sustainability (formerly known as Ramky…
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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), Maharashtra, is relocating its proposed C&D waste plant. The location will change from an existing garbage depot at the city outskirts in Pathardi to Makhmalabad. This decision was made, according…
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Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Ltd has been ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to pay environmental damages of up to Rs 153.50 crore for violating waste managament rules at its property in Sushant Lok…
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Beginning July 1, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will step up its campaign against accumulated construction and demolition (C&D) debris as well as single-use plastic in public areas. The action was taken in response to…
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M/s Soma Srinivas Reddy Engineers and Contractors will build a new construction and demolition (C&D) waste plant on its own land in Kothwalguda, covering the eight circles of Chandrayangutta, Charminar, Falaknuma, Rajendranagar, Mehdipatnam, Karwan, Goshamahal,…
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A C&D waste recycling plant is to be constructed in Pathardi, Maharashtra. The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been planning this project for some time but just recently, an agency was finalised to set up…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has resumed separate waste collection for COVID homes following a rise in cases. SDMC has hired a tipper for four to five wards and provided residents with a phone…
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Trichy Corporation has proposed to develop a 100 tpd capacity recycling plant at Panjapur. The factory, which is being planned as a public-private partnership (PPP), will collect demolition waste from all across the city and…
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Telangana claims to have become among the few states in the country that has been ensuring 100 per cent scientific treatment of biomedical waste generated in the state. In all years from 2016-17 to 2020-21,…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will collect and repurpose construction and demolition (C&D) trash generated across the city on a daily basis. This is reportedly the first time in 158 years that the NMC is…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new report which quantifies the additional COVID-19 healthcare waste generated from 2019 onwards. It outlines present healthcare waste management systems and their flaws, as well as developing…
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A group of IIT Delhi researchers have designed a decision-making framework integrated with mathematical model to help hospitals identify medical waste disposal firms that can dispose hazardous and infectious healthcare waste in a sustainable manner.…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is awaiting a decision from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) regarding the dumping of inert civic waste in the capital’s abandoned Bhatti mines. The WII will conduct a…
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Researchers at IIT-Guwahati have developed a 3D printer that uses construction waste to print furniture. The concrete printer, jointly developed by IIT-Guwahati and Deltasys E-Forming, is capable of printing components up to 1 m long, 1 m…
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Chandigarh has stepped up efforts to mechanize its upcoming Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste plant following the finalization of the Union Territory’s (UT) new C&D management policy. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation recently cleared public objections…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has sanctioned the setting up of a waste treatment plant to process used sanitary napkins and diapers at Uruli. The plant will have the capacity to treat 8 metric tonnes…
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Nearly 50 out of over 550 healthcare facilities in Gurugram have been sent show-cause notices for not obtaining required authoritization to handle biomedical waste (BMW) from the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB). These include…
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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed that construction projects which generate more than 20 tonne of waste daily will have to set up a recycling plant where the waste will be converted into aggregates…
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Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) plans to set up a C&D waste recycling plant in the village of Kakkiralapally, Warangal, Telangana, reports Telangana Today. The facility shall be erected at five acres owned by the…
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Maharashtra generated the highest volume of biomedical waste (BMW) in the country between June 2020 and June 2021, according to a recent document submitted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in Lok…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Solid Waste Department has turned its attention to Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste, which was being dumped haphazardly across the city. The PMC has started debris collection centres in 10…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is planning to hand over collection of certain non-recyclable wastes such as thermacol and rexine to the Clean Kerala Company Ltd. In the absence of an official collection mechanism by the Corporation,…
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A recent study by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found significant mismatch in government data on COVID-19 biomedical waste and infrastructure for managing this hazardous waste. Mr Atin Biswas, programme director, Solid…
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The Gujurat state government has granted permission for the development of five new Treatment Stabilization Disposal Facilities (TSDF) for the treatment of hazardous waste. This decision was made, as further reported, against the background that…
