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According to Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, approximately 3.46 million tonnes per annum (TPA) of plastic waste were generated in 2019-20. According to him, approximately…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) plans to install a new surveillance system at the Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi to reduce fires and detect them early. Additional CCTV cameras will be placed at vulnerable…
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Margao’s first five TPD (tonnes per day) biomethanation power project, which was announced with great fanfare in November 2021, may have to be shut down if the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) does not clear dues…
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In its report to Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised the Indian Railways’ (IR) waste management system in almost all sectors, including stations, coaching depots, maintenance and production units, and bio-medical waste…
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A biogas plant with a capacity of 200 cubic metres has been inaugurated in the Akauni village in Chandauli district, Varanasi. According to the news report, the plant was implemented in cooperation with the National…
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The Centre has allocated Rs 70 crore to the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) under the Swachh Bharat Mission’s Solid Waste Management fund. The civic body intends to use this fund to improve solid waste…
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Construction of a biogas plant is currently underway in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The project is being jointly developed by gas company GAIL India Limited and the Ranchi Municipal Corporation. In two digesters, the plant should process…
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Utility Adani New Industries (ANIL) and conglomerate Reliance Industries (RIL) are planning to each develop two biogas plants. Both companies plan to invest up to INR 6 billion (EUR 74.26 million) in the new projects.…
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A little over three years after the previous attempt to expand operations at the Okhla waste-to-energy (WTE) plant failed due to opposition from locals, the Jindal group’s Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has started the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered an inquiry against concessionaire IEISL, which operates the Ghazipur Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant in Delhi. In an interim report to the tribunal, the panel ordered an investigation into…
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A new report provides details on a WtE plant by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in Bawana. A tender is currently running for this plant, which is supposed to be the MCD’s fifth project.…
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According to data submitted by the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) there have been 76 fire calls from the three landfill sites (namely Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Tughlaqabad) in Delhi in the last four years. The report was submitted to a joint committee formed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to suggest next steps for the Ghazipur…
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The National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone) has ordered local bodies in Chennai like the Greater Chennai Corporation, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), and Chennai Collectorate, to strictly enforce the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation plans to outsource waste collection in parts of Northern Chennai to a private collection agency. With the exception of Tondiarpet, Royapuram, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, and Anna Nagar, 11 of the…
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Circulate Capital, a Singapore-based investment management firm focused on climate technology and the circular economy, announced a follow-on investment in Lucro Plastecycle Private Limited, one of its current portfolio companies. The additional capital will allow…
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The housing and urban affairs ministry reports that 90% of the municipal solid waste generated every day in Delhi is processed. In a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, Kaushal…
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According to an industry report released earlier this week, India’s import of waste and scrap materials has increased by 76% in value terms to USD 12.5 billion in 2020-21 from USD 7.1 in 2014-15. According…
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The Maharashtra government has amended the rule to prohibit the production of articles coated or laminated with plastic. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde approved the change. This is in addition to the Centre’s nationwide…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to involve three major stakeholders in order to reduce the burden of legacy waste from Bhalswa, Ghazipur, and Okhla landfills in a timely manner. It has finalised…
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The Chennai Corporation intends to build an integrated solid waste management plant at the Kodungaiyur dump yard. It will include a waste-to-energy plant, a bio-CNG plant, and a material recovery centre. According to corporation officials,…
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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 Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) has prohibited Solid Waste Management contractors from displaying Palike stickers on their garbage collection vehicles. “We outsourced garbage collection, but whenever there is an accident involving a waste truck…
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The Siddipet civic authorities intend to make the city a zero-landfilling zone by recycling all the waste. According to Telangana’s Finance Minister Mr T Harish Rao, who announced additional funding for various waste and sanitation…
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For the first time in Amarnath Yatra history, the Jammu and Kashmir government is working towards ensuring that the pilgrimage will be zero-waste. More than 300 volunteers have been stationed along the various routes to…
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According to data shared in Lok Sabha by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, nearly 64 fires were reported from Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site between 2017 and 2022. The Ghazipur landfill had…
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced plans to set up two large-scale biogas plants running on municipal organic waste. The 500 tpd BioCNG facilities are planned at the Chikkanagamangala and Karnataka Compost Development Corporation…
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The Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has urged the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) to double the Central Financial Assistance (CFA) under the Waste to Energy Scheme. The IBA wants it to be increased…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has announced that a public hearing for environmental clearance on the Okhla waste-to-energy (WtE) plant expansion will be held next month. Residents of Sukhdev Vihar in southeast Delhi had…
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The National Productivity Council (NPC) is holding a two-day online training course on “Six Waste Management Rules 2016 & Amendments and Way Forward in Swachch Bharat Mission, Circular Economy and Carbon Neutral Aspects”. It will…
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The largest source of PM2.5 pollution in Kolkata is the transport sector, according to a recent emission inventory analysis of the city’s air quality. However, municipal solid waste (MSW) is a developing industry that, along…
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In a bid to emphasize on its LiFE (Lifestyle for the Environment) movement through sustainable consumption, the Department of Consumer Affairs has taken a significant step for developing an overall framework for the Right to…
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As per the Managing Director Pradip Kumar Das of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) Limited., the country’s renewable energy sector has the potential to employ 10 lakh people by 2030. At a conference on renewable…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) monitoring committee has approved a new date of April 30, 2025, for establishing and commissioning the solid waste management plant in Ludhiana. The NGT members also questioned the Punjab Pollution…
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The National Green Tribunal has once again pulled up the Kerala government for poor waste management in the state. The Bench noted that even in major towns like Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi, there are gravely insufficient…
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In the previous ten days, Bengaluru civic authorities (BBMP) have clamped down on the sale of single-use plastic in eight zones and seized 1.380.8 kg of plastic. It has collected almost Rs. 5,97,800 in fines.…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has ordered the city’s bulk waste generators (BWGs) to submit their waste management action plan within seven days. There are 614 BWGs in the city, and 200 of them…
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To promote proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste), the Tirupur city corporation has launched the “Nothing is Waste” campaign. In collaboration with the NGO Thuppuravalan, the municipal corporation held an awareness camp at its main…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will continue to operate small-scale biogas plants, despite earlier plans for a shut down. In June 2022, PMC had announced to close 25 biogas plants. As per the new announcement, however…
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The state government of Uttar Pradesh has announced plans to set up compressed biogas plants in PPP mode in all cow protection facilities in the state. The plans provide to build block-level cow centres, each…
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Gujarat chief minister Mr Bhupendra Patel virtually inaugurated the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation’s (JMC) waste-to-energy park in Jamnagar’s Gandhinagar district on Wednesday. The plant will produce 7.5 MW of electricity daily. The facility was built under…
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The Trichy Corporation has commissioned 99 vehicles, including 88 battery-powered waste collection vehicles. Municipal administration minister K N Nehru handed over the vehicles purchased with 15th Finance Commission funds to the local body at the…
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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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A delegation of officials from the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon who visited the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Sonipat have concluded that more land area is required to set up a sanitary landfill and wet waste…
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Two AD projects converting cow dung into compressed biogas (green automotive fuel) are being proposed in the state of Chhattisgarh. The plans were presented by an official of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology…
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In an effort to fulfil circular economy objectives while minimising waste, oil and gas company Shell, has announced the development of a used oil management service to organise India’s waste oil disposal system and to…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to close 25 biogas plants built at a cost of Rs. 100 crore. These factories treat 2-7 MT waste per day. While several facilities have stopped operating over…
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Approximately 200 brand owners have registered for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastic packaging under the updated Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016 prior to the total ban on Single-Use Plastics (SUPs) beginning July 1. As of 2022-23,…
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Imphal Municipal Corporation (IMC) Mayor Tame Phassang has said that the lack of a solid waste management plant is causing the IMC major problems with waste disposal. The Imphal Capital Region (ICR) produces at least…
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The Flipkart Group has pledged to establish a challenging net-zero goal, decarbonizing its own activities by 2030 and the wider value chain by 2040. Being the only Indian e-commerce company in India to pledge to…
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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…
