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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 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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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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As reported by the Orissa Post, construction on a waste-to-fuel plant at Indian Railways’ Mancheswar railway station, Bhubaneswar, has begun. The plant costs INR 20 million. It uses a patented technology called Polycrack, which was…
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A tender by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for several MRFs in Mumbai has only been partly successful. Contractors have not applied to set up plants in the western and eastern suburbs of the city,…
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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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Indian lead-acid storage battery and power storage device manufacturer, Exide Industries Ltd. is planning to build a battery recycling facility in Haldia, West Bengal. The plant, which will be equipped with European technology, will have…
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According to The Times of India, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is to build an INR 200 million (EUR 2.48 million) sorting plant at its site in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The source does neither comment…
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Chief minister of India has approved INR 20 million (EUR 280,000) for the construction of an recycling plant in Kohat. About EUR 1.692.579 (RS 120 million) are scheduled for the whole plant, according to Dawn.…
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Almost 8 years after the Shishambara solid waste recycling plant was first proposed, the project might finally be realised. Reason for the delay was a petition by an individual that had stopped implementation of the…
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), the carmaker’s Indian subsidiary, is currently considering to set up a car recycling facility, as reported by Recycling International. TKM is expecting a rapidly growing number of scrap cars in the…
