Aafrin Kidwai
Preparations are underway for the Clean India Expo, which will be organized by the Exhibitions India Group from March 23 to 25 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The expo was conceptualised to promote the initiatives…
Aafrin Kidwai
Almost 90 international brands, including Coca Cola and PepsiCo, have called for a global pact to combat plastic pollution that includes cuts in plastic production. Kerala-based GreenWorms and Tomra are some of the waste management…
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The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has initiated an on-the-spot challan system for anyone caught dumping waste illegally. GNIDA has tied up with HDFC Bank and fines will be levied on-the-spot through Point of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation is exploring technologies to be used for the upgrade of the solid waste processing plant in Sector 25, near Dadumajra. The MC is also open to moving the plant to a…
Aafrin Kidwai
Three new solid waste treatment plants are being set up in Jammu and Kashmir – located in three major towns: Doda, Bhaderwah and Thathri. The district administration at Doda has announced that it will manage…
Aafrin Kidwai
Antony Waste Handling Cell has shared that its total operating revenue, including tipping revenue from collection and transportation, mechanical power sweeping and waste processing for Q3 FY22 grew about 22% Y-o-Y (year-on-year), while remaining stable…
Aafrin Kidwai
Hyderabad-based waste management firm Recykal has raised a funding of $22 million from Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure. This is the second institutional fundraise by the company after a $4 million round in 2020. Existing investors…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Coimbatore City Corporation has announced its decision to collect user fees for door-to-door waste collection starting October 2022. The civic body had started collecting user fees in 2017, but put it on hold after…
Aafrin Kidwai
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is setting up an engineered sanitary landfill site on a 47.5 acre piece of land allotted by the Delhi Development Authority at Tehkhand. Work is currently underway at the site.…
Aafrin Kidwai
Attero Recycling, India’s largest electronic waste recycling firm, has said it plans to invest Rs 300 crore in ramping up its lithium-ion battery recycling capacity to 11,000 metric tonnes per annum by October 2022 from its current capacity of 1,000…
Aafrin Kidwai
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) to set up compressed bio gas (CBG) plants and integrated CBG-CNG fuel stations. Each CBG plant will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEF&CC) has issued draft regulations on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for waste tyres. Released on December 31, 2021, the EPR Rules require registration of producers and recyclers…
Aafrin Kidwai
Mumbai’s first Waste To Energy (WTE) plant at Deonar has received Environment Clearance (EC) from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC). Now, the BMC has approached Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB)…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has invited bids to set up an 8 MW grid-connected waste-to-energy project on Build-Own-Operate (B-O-O) basis in Kanpur. The scope of work includes setting up of WTE Plant,…
Aafrin Kidwai
ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division (PSPD) has collaborated with the Invest India to launch the ‘ITC Sustainability Innovation Challenge’, to support innovative start-up ideas on sustainable packaging and smart waste management solutions. ITC PSPD,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has identified two more sites for landfills and is awaiting approval from the government to commission them, reports The Times of India. The proposed landfills are reportedly quarries at…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Guwahati High Court has issued a notice to the Government of Arunachal Pradesh following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) raising concern over the dismal handling of solid waste by the govt, particularly in the Itanagar and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will begin biomining waste at the Bhuasuni dump yard from next month. Two firms, Jagruti and Jan Adhar Sevabhavi Sanstha, will carry out bio-mining at the dumpyard in the form…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ludhiana civic body is ready with its integrated command and control centre (ICCC) under the Smart City mission. It is expected to be inaugurated soon. Under the Smart City mission, there is a provision…
Aafrin Kidwai
A joint committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) carried out an inspection of the Adyar river in Chennai’s western suburbs only to find that dumping of municipal solid waste continues unabated along the banks…
Aafrin Kidwai
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has hired private consultants to improve its performance in 2022. In the 2021 Swachh Survekshan list, NDMC ranked 45 among the 48 local bodies. The next SS survey is…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has imposed a penalty of Rs 50,000 on South Goa’s Rural Development Agency (RDA) and a penalty of Rs 25,000 on the South Goa Planning and Development Authority (SGPDA) for…
Aafrin Kidwai
An agreement has been signed by the the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to procure 20 tonnes of plastic waste daily from the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) and use it to generate 400…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon is preparing to speed up the clearing and processing of four lakh tonnes of waste from the Bandhwari landfill site. The officials said that MCG has floated two tenders so…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench has summoned Kerala state officials to Chennai for discussions on the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant on January 6, 2022. According to a communication received from NGT, senior officials from…
Aafrin Kidwai
In its efforts to decentralise waste management, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has identified seven sites to set up small biomethanation plants with capacity to churn 2-10 MT of kitchen waste to electricity. While…
Aafrin Kidwai
Telangana’s Municipal Administration & Urban Department (MAUD) will set up solid waste processing and treatment facility for 76 ULBs. MAUD will establish agencies for remediation and reclamation of existing dumpsites through biomining. MSW processing and…
Aafrin Kidwai
At least 3.4 million tonnes per annum (TPA) of plastic waste was generated in 2019-20, of which approximately 1.5 million TPA was recycled and 0.16 million TPA co-processed in cement kilns. A portion of unprocessed and…
Aafrin Kidwai
Almost a week after the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) ordered its concessionaires to collect only segregated waste, the agencies continue to collect mixed garbage. More than half the compactors are transporting mixed garbage to Bhandewadi…
Aafrin Kidwai
The solid waste treatment plant at North Goa’s Saligao is ready for operations. As reported earlier on SolidWasteIndia, the plant has been enhanced to handle 250 tonne of waste from the earlier 100 tonne per…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has asked the Kochi Corporation to take immediate corrective action at the solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram or shut it down. The local body’s continued apathy despite…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will put up “thank you” notes on the doors of city residents who segregate waste at their home. On the other hand, ‘Request messages’ will be put up for those…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is all set to stop collecting non-segregated garbage from houses and commercial establishments. The civic body is also planning to fine residents and commercial establishments who do not segregate waste.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Trichy Corporation has not yet installed semi-underground garbage bins almost eight months after procuring them, reports The Times of India. The civic body has kept the two prototypes of the expensive bins at the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Coimbatore Municipal Corporation is planning to install more bins and replace the damaged ones with new bins to prevent residents from dumping garbage on the roadsides. These bins will be cleared regularly by deploying more…
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Public power company Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (MahaGenco) is planning to trial the use of biomass briquettes in its coal-fired power plant in Parli, Beed district, Maharashtra state. One of the three 250 MW…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has given its green signal for the second waste-to-energy plant at Jawaharnagar. A 19.8 MW waste-to-energy plant is already operational at Jawaharnagar and this second WtE…
Aafrin Kidwai
The waste-to-energy plant (WTE) at Bandhwari will be operational in two years, chief minister Mr Manohar Lal Khattar has announced. Mr Khattar laid the foundation stone of the plant on December 10. With 15MW capacity,…
Aafrin Kidwai
Antony Waste Handling Cell’s subsidiary, AG Enviro Infra Projects, has received a letter of intent (LoI) for door-to-door collection and transportation (C&T) of municipal solid waste (MSW) from the Sadar Paharganj Zone of North Delhi…
Aafrin Kidwai
The World Bank Group today has announced the 20-month debarment of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) in connection with a fraudulent practice as part of the Capacity Building for Industrial Pollution Management Project in India. The debarment makes REEL and its Managing Director, Mr. M. Goutham Reddy, ineligible to participate in projects and operations…
Haridharan Krishnan
CII’s exclusive session on Turning Waste To Worth: Poland’s Know-How and Technology Proposal For India earlier this week highlighted the best and innovative practices of Polish companies, while exploring potential partnership opportunities. Here are some of…
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Plans provide for upgrading 20 biogas plants and sewage treatment plants (STPs) by Delhi Jal board (DJB), the government agency for the supply of potable water in Delhi. As further reported, upgrades should be conducted…
Aafrin Kidwai
As a result of the efforts under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U), all cities have started practising scientific disposal of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). This information was given by Minister of State in the Ministry…
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A new facility converting wet waste into biogas and CNG is to be built at the Raj Nagar Extension in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. An unnamed company based in the UK is reportedly supposed to set…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Niti Aayog and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) have released Waste-wise Cities: Best practices in municipal solid waste management which shares how Indian cities are managing their solid waste. The new report is the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0), under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), has launched the Swachh Technology Challenge. The Challenge seeks to harness the entrepreneurial potential of the waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India to strengthen the waste management sector in India under the overall ambit…
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Five biogas projects accepting paddy straw are to be built in Punjab, according to the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA). As reported, a corresponding agreement has been signed recently by PEDA and M/s EverEnviro Resource…
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Two energy projects are being proposed at the location of the Bhogpur Cooperative Sugar Mill in Bhogpur, Punjab. A 15 MW power plant not further specified is reportedly to be built, as well as a…
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A new WtE project could be built in Dundahera, Haryana. This is according to a report by The Times of India. The project secured the approval of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation on 27 November 2021.…
