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All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen more and more people admitted to hospital, where the high infection rate of the virus makes use of personal protection equipment (PPE) vital for healthcare workers.…
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The Bombay high court (HC) has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) authorities to give details of the companies and prices at which the civic body had purchased personal protective equipment (PPE) kits such…
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Large amounts of disposable masks, gloves and other medical waste have been making their way to regular garbage piles across cities, posing a major challenge for civic authorities in charge of its collection and disposal.…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has urged various State Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees to put serious effort in mitigating possible risk of unscientific disposal of bio-medical generated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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Biomedical waste generation has risen exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic was reported in India. As masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) kits need to be disposed each time after hospital staff attend to a coronavirus…
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There has been a 193.9 per cent increase in the amount of biomedical waste in the past one week, according to the Regional Office of Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board. The Free Press Journal reports…
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THE Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has urged local authorities to strictly implement guidelines for collection, transportation and disposal of suspected COVID-19 waste and solid waste from quarantined homes and containment areas. The Indian Express reports that…
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Despite the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) recent guidelines about handling and disposal of household waste generated while quarantining COVID-19 patients, urban local bodies seem ill-prepared. These guidelines make specific mention of biomedical waste generated…
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The Karnataka High Court has directed the State government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to come out with a road map for scientific disposal of construction and demolition waste as the 2016 Solid Waste…
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Uttar Pradesh’s first construction and demolition (C&D) waste management plant is finally functional in Noida’s Sector 80. The Times of India reports that the main machinery for the plant is yet to be imported while…
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The upcoming construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant at Jeedimetla in Hyderabad is almost ready for launch. Test runs at the site have begun. In the last few years, disposal of C&D waste has…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) has issued a notification requiring all construction and demolition (C&D) waste generators to pay Rs 134 per metric tonne to dispose of the debris. Non-compliance will invite penal action…
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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has floated a tender to hire a private agency to clear construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the city. The agency will also be responsible for recycling the waste at…
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Goa will have a new hazardous waste management facility in Pissurlem industrial estate (near Valpoi) ready by December 2020, in time to meet the deadline set by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). As per the…
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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to amend its building rules to better manage demolition waste to curb pollution. Earlier, there were no pollution related restrictions and anyone applying for demolition of a building…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is launching a special drive to collect construction and demolition (C&D) waste from November 20 to November 29. Hyderabad generates approximately 400 metric tonnes of C&D waste daily, most of…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is looking for an empty quarry site in the southern part of the city to establish a construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant. Currently, there is no proper mechanism to…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation is procuring imported machinery to process construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated in the city. Two recycling units will come up at Perungudi and Kodungaiyar with a combined capacity of 1200…
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The State Government of Goa has announced plans for a C&D waste recycling plant and an RDF plant, both to be developed in PPP mode. The C&D plant is likely to be constructed in North…
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As was reported by The Hindu, the groundbreaking ceremony for a paddy straw biogas project in Karnal, Haryana, was held on 18 October. The plant should be completed by 2022 and will produce compressed biogas…
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According to The Times of India, small-scale biomethane plant was inaugurated in the Saibaba Colony in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The project was funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under the capacity building…
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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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According to The Hindustan Times, the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (LMC), Punjab, is proceeding with plans to build a biogas plant in the city. The plans were approved several years ago, but have not been pursued…
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According to Telangana Today, a Spanish company specialising in the installation of waste treatment plants, Leblan Industries, has approached the state of Telangana to work with the State Government in setting up waste treatment plants. Following…
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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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According to The Telegraph India, a 20-acre plot has been selected for setting up a waste recycling centre for processing waste from New Town, Bidhannagar and three boroughs of the city. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been…
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As reported by The Hans India, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has built a C&D waste recycling plant at Jeedimetla, Hyderabad, with a processing capacity of 500 tonnes per day. Trial runs at the…
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According to the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), an Intergrated Waste Management Facility including a WtE plant, a biomethanation plant and a C&D debris processing facility will be constructed at the Narela-Bawana landfill site. After…
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Construction has begun on the first phase of the Daighar C&D incineration plant. As reported by DNA India, the Thane Municipal Corporation is hoping that both phases of the project will be operational by autumn…
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Construction works on a new construction and demolition waste processing site in Mulund, Mumbai, will commence in June 2019, as The Times of India reported. INR 4.5 crores have been allocated for this project. Two…
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Construction works for a new 600 tpd construction and demolition waste recycling facility at the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai have been scheduled to commence this year, as The Asian reports. Picture Credit: User:Petr K,…
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The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is planning to build a C&D waste recycling facility in the village of Kuppaluru, Mysore, Karnataka, on an area of 5.5 acres. According to the Star of Mysore, C&D waste…
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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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In December 2017, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation and Bengaluru-based VVD Constructions signed an agreement to build a construction and demolition (C&D) plant in Vijayawada. However, according to the New Indian Express, the construction works, which…
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As reported in issue 11-2018, a construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling facility, worth a total of about EUR 1.1 million, was planned to be built in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The city intended to terminate…
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According to The Indian Express, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) have plans to build C&D waste recycling facilities. As a first step, both partners have identified 10…
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In January 2017, Indian company Neway Engineers MSW Private Ltd. was supposed to start the construction of a recycling plant for 200 tpd of construction and demolition (C&D) waste, which was expected to be built…
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On 4 October, the government of India has approved two recycling plants for construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Fathullahguda and Jeedimetla, The Hindu reports. The tender has already been awarded to India-based provider of…
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The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has opened a new facility to recycle construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Rohini, North West Delhi, as was reported by The Hindu. At the site, C&D waste is…
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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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The state government of Jharkhand has plans to build a central biomedical waste plant in Lohardaga. It would be serving nearly 200 private institutions such as hospitals or nursing homes from Ranchi and the five…
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Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is planning to build a debris construction recycling facility at the sewage farm in Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore. A yet unnamed company is to recycle debris into usable bricks and interlocking tiles. A…
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The Coimbatore Corporation has received the permission of the State Government of Tamil Nadu for establishing a recycling plant to recycle C&D waste at a cost of EUR 157,094 through a PPP project. The plant…
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The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is going to set up a Construction and Demolition of Waste Processing Plant (CDWP) in Karnataka. The facility will cost around USD 870,000 and is planned in collaboration with the…
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wants to set up three construction-waste and recycling plants in the outskirts of Bengaluru. Each of the facilities will be able to handle about 750 tons per day, totaling a…
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Civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has issued a request for proposals for the development of three construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling facilities in the outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka. Each plant should have…
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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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East Delhi’s second construction and demolition waste management facility has been commissioned. The plant is based on wet processing of construction and demolition waste and provides a capacity of approximately 500 tons per day. As…
