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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is conducting inspections of stores and manufacturing units in the city to combat the use of single-use plastic (SUPs). The Joint Commissioner of Solid Waste Management, Mr Sarfaraz Khan,…
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The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) has provided a grant to Saahas for setting up sustainable waste management infrastructure in 30 villages around the Panna National Park, over the next two years. This grant is part of project…
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New Delhi generates over 11,400 metric tonnes of waste each day. Of this, nearly 6,200 metric tonnes is dumped at landfill sites in Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa which are administered by the East, South, and…
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The Ahmedabad civic body has invited bids from private players to design, finance, set up and operate a facility to process upto 3000tpd of RDF fraction in the legacy waste at Pirana landfill. The contract…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has announced it will soon ban plastic waste entering corporation limits from other states. Vehicles carrying such waste will be stopped at toll booths. The DPCC plans to send…
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The Kochi Corporation has replaced the contractor, who has been operating the solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram on behalf of the local government for nearly a decade, with a new one. The corporation will…
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The Delhi administration is petitioning the Central government for Rs 1,755 crore to clear three landfill sites in Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa, which are administered by the East, South, and North Delhi Municipal Corporations, respectively.…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the central government plans to convert dumpsites across the country into green zones within three years. PM Modi made the announcement on Saturday while integrating the “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG)…
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India’s Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified the Guidelines on Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) on plastic packaging under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. The Guidelines provide a framework to strengthen…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has announced a new initiative to establish 90 secondary collection transfer locations in the city. Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Mr KT Rama Rao has directed officials to…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up the Maharashtra government for failing to prohibit the dumping of municipal waste into the Godavari River near Trimbakeshwar. According to an NGT bench led by NGT Chairperson…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to stop using 200 solid waste collection stations throughout the city. To enhance its ranking in the City Sanitation Index, the LMC will either build underground solid waste…
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Ayurveda major Dabur India Ltd claims to have become India’s first 100% ‘Plastic Waste Neutral company’, having collected, processed and recycled around 27,000 MT of post-consumer plastic waste from across the country in FY2021-22. This…
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Tambaram Corporation has been ordered by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to pay a compensation of Rs. 21 lakh for breaching the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ruling on proper solid waste disposal in…
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In Kerala, the Haritha Keralam Mission plans to implement a smart waste monitoring system called Haritha Mitram to keep track of the entire waste management process. This will be done through the local self government…
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The Jawaharnagar Waste to Energy (WtE) plant in Hyderabad will soon be enhanced to 48 MW. Currently, the plant is a functioning at a capacity of 19.8 MW. The Jawaharnagar plant, which opened in August…
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New Delhi-based Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. has announced a tender for a WtE project in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. As further reported, the tender is for the establishment of an 8 MW grid-connected power…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has recently inaugurated an MRF in Badshahpur, Haryana. Waste management company Ecogreen Energy will operate the facility, which can recycle multiple waste streams including plastic, glass and metal, according to…
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The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) will install 50 e-waste collection bins in Bengaluru, including the Vidhana Soudha and the High Court. In addition, one hundred bins will be installed in other parts of…
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Sistema.bio has announced the close of a Series B investment round of USD$ 15.6MM that included a mix of equity, debt and non-dilutive capital to support the continued growth and scale of the company’s waste-to-energy…
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Tamil Nadu-based waste management platform Cercle X has raised Rs 1.9 crore in a seed funding round from Gurugram-based Inflection Point Ventures. Co-founded by Vishnu Vardhaan and Divya Shetty in January 2020, the startup is…
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All state Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees have been ordered by the National Green Tribunal to provide status reports on the operation of e-waste recycling industries that are generating environmental degradation and health…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has proposed an allocation of Rs 7 crore to relocate construction and other waste from the city to another specified location. Municipal commissioner Mr Vikram Kumar presented a proposal to…
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Haryana’s Urban Local Bodies department has formed a five-member committee to investigate the selection of contractors for legacy waste processing at the Bandhwari landfill site. The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram was recently ordered by the…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced an increase of 250 percent in its expenditure on solid waste management, as part of its ambitious ‘SWM vision 2030’ campaign. The campaign aims to create a favourable…
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The Karnataka Government has extended Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt. Ltd.’s seven-year contract for solid waste management with Mangaluru City Corporation, which was set to expire on January 31 this year. The state’s Urban Development…
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In Kanpur, GIZ recently completed a waste characterization study. At six different transhipment stations in the city, an eight-person team gathered samples from different waste streams. The study found that about half of municipal waste…
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Over 550 truckloads of construction waste has been removed from Pune’s Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary during the last two weeks. It will take another 4-5 days to get the entire property free from the…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new report which quantifies the additional COVID-19 healthcare waste generated from 2019 onwards. It outlines present healthcare waste management systems and their flaws, as well as developing…
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Madhya Pradesh’s second e-waste recycling plant is being launched in Gwalior by Prometheus. The plant has reportedly received approval from the Pollution Control Board for handling hazardous and e-waste. The plant will reportedly manually segregate,…
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Eco-Green Energy Pvt Ltd, hired by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation for door-to-door waste collection, will now have to submit daily status reports to the office of city mayor. The company has also been asked to…
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S22 timelines were recently extended by the Central government due to the pandemic situation. As per guidelines, documentation under SS22 was to be earlier done by January 15, but the deadline has now been extended…
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A group of IIT Delhi researchers have designed a decision-making framework integrated with mathematical model to help hospitals identify medical waste disposal firms that can dispose hazardous and infectious healthcare waste in a sustainable manner.…
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IKEA Social Entrepreneurship has partnered with Saahas Zero Waste on a pilot programme to transform, through three waste management micro-entrepreneurs, the informal waste sector in India. The result of the programme will be that informal…
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In order to facilitate ease of doing business and reducing regulatory compliance burden for waste businesses, the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) has launched an online facility for companies to share their annual return of…
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The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), in partnership with Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has launched the Swachhata Start-Up Challenge to provide an…
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The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has imposed a fine of Rs 2.41 crore on 929 vehicles over the last four years for illegal dumping of construction or demolition (C&D) waste on the Yamuna floodplains. According…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is awaiting a decision from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) regarding the dumping of inert civic waste in the capital’s abandoned Bhatti mines. The WII will conduct a…
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India has released a baseline analysis of the socio-economic situation of Safai Sathis or waste pickers. The analysis is one of the first large-scale assessments conducted in India, covering 9,300…
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Researchers at IIT-Guwahati have developed a 3D printer that uses construction waste to print furniture. The concrete printer, jointly developed by IIT-Guwahati and Deltasys E-Forming, is capable of printing components up to 1 m long, 1 m…
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Chandigarh has stepped up efforts to mechanize its upcoming Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste plant following the finalization of the Union Territory’s (UT) new C&D management policy. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation recently cleared public objections…
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France-based CNIM Group recently announced it was facing financial and operational problems in its Environment and Energy business. A few international projects were also reportedly affected as a result of this development. Today, CNIM Martin…
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Indore’s new bio-CNG plant, touted as one of Asia’s largest such facilities, is ready. It is expected to start operations within the next 15-20 days. The plant will produce 18,000 kg of bio-CNG from 550 tonnes of liquid…
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued draft guidelines for the use of recycled plastics as food packaging. The Draft Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Amendment Regulations 2022 pertain to the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a committee to monitor solid waste management by the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation. It has also sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from the AMC for the alleged disposal…
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Starting January 2023, smaller poultry farms in India which have over 5,000 birds at a single location will need an approval to establish and operate under the Water Act of 1974 and the Air Act of 1981…
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Various civic bodies across the country are seeing positive results for their plastic and electronic waste collection drives from households and industrial areas. Now, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has finalised a private contractor…
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The three municipal corporations of Delhi have spent over ₹11,750 crore on sanitation and cleaning services in the Capital over the last five years. In an official reply to a question in the Delhi Assembly, South…
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The ground breaking ceremony for Ahmedabad’s second Waste to Energy (WTE) plant will be held today. Being built by JITF Urban Infrastructure Limited (JUIL), a part of the New Delhi-based OP Jindal Group, this 15MW…
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The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has started installing smart waste bins in the city. These bins will have Artificial Intelligence-based sensors to alert the authorities once they reach their full capacity. Around 50…
