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Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is further developing its plans for a biogas plant at the Mandur landfill in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Back in July 2021, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sought details of…
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The Mysuru City Corporation will allocate INR 50 million (EUR 618,850) for the construction of a C&D waste recycling plant. Total cost for the project is expected to amount to INR 150 million (EUR 1.86…
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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and Adani Total Gas are proposing to set up compressed biogas (CBG) plants in Uttar Pradesh. The source does not comment on any specific location. As further stated in the source,…
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To prevent waste from being thrown into the Mithi River, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local groups to raise awareness among people who live along the river’s banks,…
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Mumbai’s first electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging station, which will run on energy produced from wet waste, has been integrated. The factory, which can handle 2,000 kg of wet garbage per day, has been built on…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has agreed to review the solid waste management project in Bavdhan to ensure it does not cause environmental difficulties for the Ramnadi river, which is undergoing a riverfront development project.…
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The Technology Development Board (TDB), a statutory body of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, has invited applications from companies with innovative/indigenous technologies in areas focusing on municipal solid waste, plastic…
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that India has the potential to become a vehicle scrapping hub in South Asia. The Minister for Road Transport & Highways shared his vision to create at least one…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has expressed its unhappiness with solid waste management in Guwahati. The NGT panel said that despite long-term supervision, no adequate progress has been made so far. The NGT order came in response to an…
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The Huhtamaki Foundation, a charitable trust run by Huhtamaki India, has inaugurated its first recycling plant in Khopoli, Maharashtra to help drive circularity for packaging. The site, spread across 2000 sq mt area, will recycle…
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The SDMC’s online platform for e-waste collection has received over 2,300 applications, with over 900 people using the service so far, according to civic officials. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) initiated an initiative in…
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The waste-to-energy plant in Ghazipur will soon reopen after being closed for over six months for maintenance. The plant uses 1,400-1,500 metric tonnes of waste and refuse-derived fuel waste (RDF) each day. East Delhi Municipal…
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Proceedings had been initiated on the death of two persons and injuries to two others in a fire in the garbage mound spread over 25 acres of land at Manesar, Gurugram. The National Green Tribunal…
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The Ninth Indian Material Recycling Conference (IMRC) organized by the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) will take place in Delhi between May 5-7, 2022. This year, the sessions include Circular Economy – the way…
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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 Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has levied an environment compensation worth Rs 35.26 crores on Ludhiana’s local bodies department for violating solid waste management guidelines and failing to start bioremediation of legacy garbage. Out…
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India and Brazil have agreed to develop an Indian-Brazilian Alliance for Bioenergy and Biofuels to enhance the partnership between the two countries. The partnership highlights the importance of bilateral cooperation in the energy sector and…
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The Mumbai civic body (MCGM) has formed a committee to decide on the capacity of the second waste-to-energy plant to be built at the Deonar dumping ground. The amount of waste created daily may alter…
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The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has failed to get a single bidder to improve its waste processing plant at a cost of Rs 6 crore, meaning that the ambitious project will be further delayed. The…
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The use of plastic waste instead of cooking and non-cooking coal in the steel sector will help reduce plastic waste, said Union Steel Minister Ram Chandra Prasad Singh at the opening session of the Plastic…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has begun the process of constructing a fourth solid waste management plant at Verna Industrial Estate, which will handle waste from Mormugao taluka and sections of Salcete taluka. The…
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A National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel met with Ludhiana Municipal Corporation officials to discuss 20 metric tonnes of legacy waste accumulating in the landfill at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). The civic body has missed previous…
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Goa’s new Minister for waste management Mr Atanasio Monserrate has said that a comprehensive waste management project will be functional at Sonsoddo within the next 12-18 months. Sharing a few details about the roadmap for…
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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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A massive fire broke out at the Bhalswa landfill site in north Delhi on Tuesday evening. According to officials, 13 fire tenders were at the site to douse the flames. Environment minister Gopal Rai on…
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Bhopal’s civic body claims that plastic waste has decreased by over 30% roughly, a year and a half after a single-use plastic (SUP) ban was implemented. Bhopal Municipal Commissioner (BMC) Mr MP Singh told The Times of India that enforcement through penalties, alternative packaging methods, and other…
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Top officials of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) visited IREDA funded 15 MW Waste-To-Energy (WTE) Plant at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. IREDA’s team was accompanied by Shri M.V.Chary, President (AP Projects), and other…
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The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) is planning to build a facility to convert non-recyclable waste, especially plastic, into fuel. With the state government paying a significant amount of money to bring refuse-derived fuel (RDF)…
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Swachh Sustainable Solutions Pvt Ltd has been awarded a grant as part of The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services. Swacch Sustainable Solutions operates under the brand name, Recircle, in India. Recircle aggregates the collection and processing of dry waste to…
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TOMRA has released its latest white paper, which examines ways to improve the effectiveness of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) initiatives, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Through the white paper, TOMRA, a leading waste,…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) plans to earn revenue by recycling dry and wet waste at its Chetpet Bio CNG facility and selling manure. The civic body reportedly receives a royalty of Rs 1.5…
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Chandigarh will soon be getting its first plastic waste recycling plant. The civic body is examining two plant designs. One under which the MC will only give land to a company that will build the…
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A Coimbatore Councillor has offered residents who segregate a free trip to Ooty as a reward for their service. Launching a door-to-door campaign in Annur town panchayat, Mr Ranganathan, an independent councillor from Ward 12…
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The 3-day “Smart Cities, Smart Urbanization” conference had a grand opening in Surat on Tuesday. The event is being organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India with Surat Smart City…
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has said it will penalize the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation for its failure to manage the city’s solid waste. Officials from the PPCB noted that the city’s lack of solid…
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The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) will take over the Indirapuram dumpsite following the exit of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC). Following the National Green Tribunal’s instructions, the corporation began bioremediation work at the site in…
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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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Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Mr Piyush Goyal has urged the plastics industry to reduce import dependency to become the world’s premium supply hub. “The plastic industry needs to reduce the volume of imports…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has levied penalties totaling approximately Rs 50 lakh on those caught using single-use plastics (SUP) in the last three years. The SDMC has issued roughly 2,120 challans as part…
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Pre-bids for the bioremediation of the 7.67 lakh metric tonne of legacy garbage at the Dadu Majra dumping ground has garnered the interest of twelve companies. The MC has received several suggestions from the companies.…
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Headquartered in Singapore, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions is one of India’s fastest-growing waste management companies. Founded in 2017 by Madhujeet Chimni, Bharadwaj Chivukula and Prashant Singh, Blue Planet’s portfolio includes four Indian waste management companies: Rudra Environmental Solutions,…
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A new CNG facility based on cow dung is to be built in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The facility also known as Bhopal Gobar-dhan plant, is supposed to produce enough CNG to operate 250 city buses…
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has given its nod for the waste-to-energy plant at the Bhagtanwala dumpsite in Amritsar. The WtE plant will have the capacity to process consume 1,000 MT garbage daily and…
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The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has agreed to build two new biomethanation units with a capacity of treating 5 tonnes of waste per day in order to alleviate the city’s solid waste management crisis. Work…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation is planning to enlist the support of women’s self-help groups (SHGs) in order to create job opportunities in the field of waste management. The administration plans to use women SHGs to…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) conducted a high-level meeting to discuss the progress made in the cleanup of the three legacy dumpsites in Delhi’s Okhla, Ghazipur, and Bhalswa. It was emphasized that…
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The Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) has again ordered 11 coal-based thermal power plants operators to comply with its biomass co-firing instructions. In September 2021,…
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The Centre has approved Rs 403.77 crores for legacy waste clearance in Gujarat. To retrieve prime land in Gujarat from hazardous landfills, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has approved the central share…
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Following a major fire at the Moshi landfill in Pune, questions are being raised about the status of the WtE project announced nearly five years ago. In 2017, as part of the development plan Bhosari…
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Chloride Metals Limited has started commercial production at its “manufacturing plant for battery recycling” in Haldia, West Bengal. The plant situated on a 1-acre plot of land is hosting recycling technology installed together with global…
