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A new biogas plant is under construction in Kota, Rajasthan. The plant is being developed under the Devnarayan scheme of the City Development Trust Kota, according to a news report. The work is being carried…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) has collected penalties worth approximately Rs. 7 lakh during the last two weeks from those caught dumping waste in public places. According to a statement released by the GCMC, a campaign was held in the city from March…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has ordered 194 bulk waste generators (BWGs) in the city, including hotels, restaurants, banquet halls, and other commercial establishments, to construct waste processing facilities in their units in order…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has told the Delhi Assembly’s Environment Committee that clearing the Ghazipur dump will take at least ten years at full performance. The municipal government has also admitted that it…
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The Bhubaneshwar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed a budget of Rs 600 crore, with Rs 110 crore budgeted for waste management, which is more than a two-field increase in five years. The BMC has set…
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ITC Ltd has announced that it is speeding up its efforts to move beyond plastic neutrality, claiming to have managed more than 54,000 tonnes of plastic trash in India sustainably in 2021-22. Well-Being Out of…
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The Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav has launched ‘Prakriti’, a mascot to spread public awareness on sustainable living and highlight various green initiatives taken by the Ministry of Environment,…
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Singapore-based investment management firm Circulate Capital has invested in Indian plastic recycling company Deluxe through its $112-million Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF I), which was created in partnership with global corporations like PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble,…
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Karnataka’s Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Mr K S Eshwarappa has said that the government planned to build 50 solid waste management facilities this year to dispose of and process dry trash collected…
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Goa Chief minister Pramod Sawant has said in his budget speech that the 100-tonne-per-day (TPD) solid waste management facility under construction in Cacora is expected to be completed this month at a cost of Rs…
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In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Mr R.K Singh stated that the country has 249 waste-to-energy facilities, 819 biomass power plants, and 50.8…
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FMCG maker Procter & Gamble India has said it has become a ‘plastic waste neutral’ company in FY 2021-22, after having recycled 100 percent of post-consumer plastic packaging waste. The company, which has a portfolio…
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An automatic compressed biogas (CBG) facility, the first in Noida, will be built in Sector 123 to dispose of 200 metric tonnes of wet waste daily. The factory, which will be developed in a public-private…
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On Monday, the Union government informed the Lok Sabha that 29 incidents of illicit e-waste importation have been discovered across the country since 2019. The data was placed by the administration in answer to a…
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More than 50 hours after a major fire broke out at east Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site, firefighters finally brought the blaze under control amid challenges posed by the hard-to-reach fire spots and thick smoke. Strong…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has approved a proposal worth Rs 178.6 crore for legacy waste remediation in Telangana and Rs 433.72 crores for Maharashtra. The total project approval for Telangana is worth Rs 178.6…
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The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) monitoring committee has asked the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district administration in Punjab to set timeframes for the completion of solid waste management projects, sewage treatment facilities, and other projects.…
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A wall located at the back of the Solid Waste Management Treatment Plant at Sonsodo, Goa collapsed on the weekend. The weight of the waste inside the plant, put pressure against the wall, caused the…
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According to the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report submitted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, the delay in completing an integrated solid waste management facility, even after 12 years of planning, has resulted in the…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation plans to transfer roughly 260 MT waste per day to its 15 MW waste-to-energy plant from surrounding urban local bodies in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. The move is intended to…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has announced that it will complete its second waste-to-energy plant and Delhi’s first “engineered landfill site” in Tehkhand by September 2022 and March 2023, respectively. The Department of Environment…
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Citizens and members of various NGOs in Ludhiana staged a silent protest outside the Municipal Corporation (MC) Zone D office. They claim that they have raised protests over the issue for decades, but to no…
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Increasing stocks of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) following the biomining of legacy waste is posing problems for full-fledged operation of trommel machines at Bhalswa and Ghazipur landfill sites. A North Delhi Municipal Corporation official informed The…
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The Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA), which is the key agency responsible for the Sector V township, has announced several initiatives for improving waste management in Salt Lake City. This includes mapping of wet and…
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Zigma Global Environ Solutions has been ranked 24 on the Financial Times’ list of High Growth Rate Companies 2022. This year’s FT rating of 500 high-growth firms in the Asia-Pacific area, was developed in collaboration…
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Chandigarh’s third material recovery facility (MRF) and garbage transfer station has been inaugurated at Sector 25, near Dadumajra. The first facility at 3 BRD and the second at the Industrial area, Phase I, are under…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) effort to collect e-waste from every home in the city through door-to-door collection is received positive feedback from citizens. Many residents are contacting the local sanitation department and donating…
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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said road construction costs must be reduced without compromising on quality. Addressing the 17th Annual Conference on ‘Road Development in India’ organised by Indian Infrastructure, he…
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Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, has informed the Lok Sabha under the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016, 21 types of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) have been notified. These…
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Telangana claims to have become among the few states in the country that has been ensuring 100 per cent scientific treatment of biomedical waste generated in the state. In all years from 2016-17 to 2020-21,…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has released the new Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP) towards the goal of building a climate-resilient city. MCAP is a policy document to adopt an evidence-based planning approach and mobilize resources to…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will collect and repurpose construction and demolition (C&D) trash generated across the city on a daily basis. This is reportedly the first time in 158 years that the NMC is…
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Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has removed around 45,000 cubic metres of plastic waste and silt from 575 drains. Its target is to remove around 80,000 cubic metres from December 25 last year to March 7…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has claimed that 100 percent door-to-door waste collection has been achieved in the city, with 70 percent of waste being segregated at the source. The MCG has also reported…
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One of India’s largest waste management firms Ramky Enviro Engineers has announced its new brand identity. Henceforth, it will be known as ‘Re Sustainability Limited’. Re Sustainability Limited (RE), a KKR-backed company, offers environmental services and…
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Based in Bhadohi, a town in Uttar Pradesh, Observing I Ecotech (OIE) offers proprietary technology for conversion of unsegregated waste to energy by-products including MSW, plastics, biomass, biomedical waste. OIE is a member of FICCI’s…
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It’s been a year since Ramky Enviro launched a special pilot program comprising entirely of women workers to handle conservancy operations for Zone 2 in Manali, covering a 40 sq. km area. Ramky says this is the…
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The Chandigarh administration has approved ‘Expressions of Interest’ (EOI) and invited companies to come and build a Waste to Energy (WtE) plant in the city. The administration has finalised the EOI, which would be called…
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On Tuesday, a NITI Aayog team will tour the Pirana Biomining project’s waste-to-energy plant in Ahmedabad. The officials will visit to the Abellon Clean Energy Ltd plant, escorted by representatives from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s…
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Cement producing companies ACC and Ambuja Cements have installed a so-called Geocycle Bubble Barrier plastic waste separator in Sunder Nagar, Himachal Pradesh, reports Cemfuels.com. Reportedly, the separator will collect the waste for use as RDF…
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Ramky has announced the launch of a modern fleet of 40 Internet-of-Things-enabled pick-up trucks to enable efficient solid waste management. The fleet will be in addition to the company’s existing fleet of 64 solid and/or…
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Heads of State, Ministers of environment and other representatives from 175 nations endorsed a historic resolution at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) on March 2 in Nairobi to End Plastic Pollution and forge an international legally binding…
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India has said that it is dedicated to addressing plastic pollution to lessen its negative impact on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, as well as the wellbeing of its people. Speaking at the United Nations Environment…
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Nearly 2,380 kg of plastics waste has been removed from the Nilgiri Mountain Route (NMR) route, the Southern Railway (SR) has informed a division bench of the Madras High Court. The petitioners, who include a…
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The Centre has approved the action plans of three states – Rajasthan, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh – as well as Chandigarh for the remediation of legacy municipal trash at dump yards in 171 municipal areas…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) have approved a Rs 20-crore project to build a 100-metric solid waste management facility on PCB’s property. A total of Rs 7.50 crore has…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded “people’s participation” in the Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM). Noting the increased use of cloth bags instead of polythene in various cities of the country, he said that the collective…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has asked its waste concessionaire, Ecogreen, to present a status report on its progress on the proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at the Bandhwari landfill site. The local body has requested…
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The Delhi government has announced the establishment of the “country’s first” e-waste eco-park in New Delhi to deal with rising e-waste The Delhi goverment plans to carry out recycling and remanufacturing on the 20-acre plot…
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South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) aims to sell carbon credits created by lowering its carbon footprint to organisations in other countries to enhance profits and improve its Swachhta Survekshan(SS) ranking. SDMC aims to establish a…
