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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation, Uttar Pradesh, is looking for a new partner to develop the planned biogas plant in the municipality. It is requesting bids from domestic and international companies for a waste disposal contract…
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A plastic recycling campaign launched by the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences on July 5 culminates on September 17, with high-profile events helmed by the respective chief ministers in various states across the country. Earth…
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A CBG plant is being set up in Thaluapur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. This will reportedly be the first plant in the state in which CBG will be made from the mixture of cow dung, grass,…
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Automobile company Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) have signed an MoU to jointly develop a biogas demonstration project in India. The partners plan to form a JV to undertake…
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A planned biogas plant in Darbhanga, Bihar State, will receive INR 5 million (EUR 62,712) of funding from the Gobar Dhan biogas support scheme. The plant should process locally collected cow dung. A plot of…
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The Mumbai civic body has sent 9,400 plaster of Paris (POP) Ganpati idols that were left on the seashore after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival for recycling. This is the first time that the civic organization…
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will be chairing a meeting after his government was ordered to pay Rs 12,000 crore as environmental compensation for improper management of solid and liquid waste by the National Green…
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A new biogas plant, currently under construction in Dhuriapur, Uttar Pradesh, is expected to be ready in December 2022 and will start operations in March 2023. The plant, being built by IOCL, is expected to…
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Ghaziabad civic agencies have been ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to pay up to Rs 200 crore in damages for failing to adhere to solid waste management standards throughout the city. It has…
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The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) is planning to install underground bins in various locations across the city. Each day, around 506 metric tonnes of waste are collected in all wards of Srinagar city. The department…
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West Bengal’s Environment Minister Manas Bhunia has announced that the state government will establish a nodal committee in each district to monitor pollution control measures and waste management efforts. Members of the panel would also…
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Following a public hearing on August 16, a proposal to increase the Okhla Waste to Energy (WtE) plant’s capacity from 23 MW to 40 MW was rejected. The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) said the plan…
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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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Adani Total Gas has established a new subsidiary named Adani TotalEnergies Biomass. Reportedly, the subsidiary will be active in developing, establishing and operating bio-conversion plants, as well as in the production of CBG and further…
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A 600 tpd biogas plant will be established in the Barsana town of Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh. Adani Total Gas has entered into a public welfare partnership with Shri Mataji Gaushala, a cow shelter in…
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The West Bengal government has been fined Rs 3,500 crore by the National Green Tribunal for a large disparity in solid and liquid waste generation and treatment. The green panel stated that the state government…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MCC) processed 6,000kg of domestic sanitary waste in August. Starting August 3, MCC vans gathered sanitary garbage separately and treated it in Chandigarh’s Industrial Area Phase-I by scientific incineration. From the…
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The Pune Civic Corporation (PMC) has started a trial programme to collect electronic waste from Pune citizens, including old phone bills, TVs, PCs, and other devices. The PMC, Adaar Poonawala Clean City Initiative, and Purnam…
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SMS Envoclean has been given a notice by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to modernize its Deonar biomedical waste treatment facility in order to stop environmental pollution. In the event of non-compliance, the MPCB…
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Earlier this week, close to 30,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste was generated within 10 seconds of the demolition of Supertech twin towers in Noida. Hyderabad-based Re Sustainability has been given the responsibility to…
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Demolition experts will be chalking out a plan after discussion with resident associations in the vicinity of the demolished Noida twin towers regarding the disposal of debris from the site. Experts said that it may…
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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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An impasse over the disposal of waste into a designated dumpyard has resulted in a buildup of waste in communities, leaving several areas of Bhubaneswar reeking of garbage. For the past two weeks, residents of…
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According to Union Minister Jitendra Singh, businesses in India are finding new opportunities through “waste to wealth,” the Ministry of Science and Technology reported on Saturday. In a statement released by the ministry, Singh spoke…
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The Lucknow Nagar Nigam is all set to give a new look to its garbage collection vehicles. This was after Divisional Commissioner Roshan Jacob took note of the civic body’s unkept vehicles during a municipal…
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India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 to ensure environmentally sound management of waste batteries. The new rules will replace the Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules,…
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FMCG direct selling company, Amway India, has managed 100% of post-consumer plastic waste based on its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) collection and recycled 100% of pre-consumer plastic waste produced at the Amway manufacturing facility. Through…
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HPCL has started its first cow dung-based biogas project in Rajasthan, which converts 100 tonnes of dung per day into biogas that may be utilized as a transportation fuel. The HPCL Compressed Biogas Project project…
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EverEnviro Resource Management Pvt Ltd (EverEnviro), a wholly owned subsidiary of Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF), plans to invest $1 billion in the construction of 14 compressed biogas plants across the country. There are currently…
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The Loni Nagar Palika, a town near Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, has accelerated construction on a solid waste management plant in the neighborhood, days after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked for a report on delayed projects in Ghaziabad.…
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A biogas plant in the municipality of Kalpetta, Kerala, was inaugurated on 14 August 2022. The plant is reportedly located at a 15,000-square feet area on 9 acres of land in Vellaramkunnu. The investment has…
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The Kerala government has started the process of reclaiming land with legacy waste dumpsites. Faced with inadequate waste treatment infrastructure, the local self-government department (LSGD) has identified around 47 dumps with enormous piles of residual…
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The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC), Tamil Nadu, will receive funds amounting to INR 700 million (EUR 8.7 million) under the Federal Government’s Swachh Bharat mission’s Solid Waste Management fund. With these funds, a C&D…
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The subcommittee of an Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) from the Centre has discovered anomalies in the environmental permissions granted by several authorities for the solid waste management plant at Jhuriwala village, Panchkula. According to the…
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The Indian Parliament Lok Sabha has passed a bill called Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill to promote the development of renewable energy and fuels, including biomass. Amongst others, it introduces penalties for industrial companies failing to…
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Building works for the biogas facility at Parag Dairy in Ramnagar, Uttar Pradesh, are expected to be completed by December 2022. As of June 2022, commissioning was scheduled for October 2022. The plant is expected…
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The Seventh Report of the Solid Waste Monitoring Committee for Haryana and Chandigarh states that 807 bulk trash generators must build wet waste processing facilities on their properties. The committee was established on the National…
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Efforts are being made by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to remove over 7.5 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of legacy waste accumulated at the Dadumajra dumpsite since 2005. Of the three shortlisted companies, Aakanksha Enterprises had…
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The Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant in the village of Bhutal Kalan in Sangrur district, Punjab, has now started commercial CGB production. The plant producing 33.23 tpd was commissioned in April 2022. As per earlier information,…
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The government has stated clearly that it wants to create a standard for mobile device charging, but it hasn’t set a deadline since it needs to have broad industry consultations. Three expert panels will likely…
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The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has asked the state government to create a “vision plan” for the elimination of solid waste in Jammu and Kashmir and information on the resources employed for waste…
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Together with Yunus Social Business Fund gGmbH and its subsidiary Cofresco, German retail coffee company Melitta has set up a plastic recycling plant in Bangalore, Karnataka. The plant is part of an initiative named “Fair…
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Decomposing food waste is releasing thousands of tonnes of planet-warming methane gas at landfills in Buenos Aires, Delhi, Mumbai, and Lahore, according to new research. With about 570 million tonnes of the greenhouse gas emitted…
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With the city corporation recently awarding the contract for the second phase of biomining at Ariyamangalam dumpyard, preliminary work is underway to determine the exact amount of waste to be cleared. According to city officials,…
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Bihar’s state urban development and housing department intends to build a WtE plant in Patna, Bihar. The facility to be erected at Ramachak Bairiya on Patna-Gaya road should host several separate units for compost, biomethanation,…
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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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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is constructing nine mini waste-to-energy or biomethanisation plants with a daily capacity of two metric tonnes (MT) of organic waste. These will be located throughout Mumbai with the goal of…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will issue a tender notice for waste-to-CNG plants in the city soon. The civic body intends to build two such plants, each with a capacity of 500 tonnes per…
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The Trichy civic body is considering the privatization of solid waste management services in the city. The plan is currently in the proposal stage. Shortage of sanitation workers is one of the major reasons for this, reports The New Indian Express. A month ago the city authorities purchased 99…
