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The WtE plant in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, is now ready for operations, according to The New Indian Express. This was announced by officials reporting to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister during the recently held Clean…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued notices for closure to 1,278 recyclers operating without valid registration under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. Similar notices have been sent to 551 plastic manufacturing units as well. The…
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The Odisha State government has roped in Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) for strengthening waste management systems in the state. The Directorate of Municipal Administration and Directorate of Technical Education and Training (DTET) has signed an…
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Starting next month, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) will transport refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from the Bandhwari landfill to the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Sonipat. This is being done to clear space for setting up…
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Almost a month after the ceremonial launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Urban 2.0 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 1, 2021, the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Mr Hardeep Singh Puri launched its…
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Following an application filed by the Resident Welfare Associations in Ghaziabad on the failure of the statutory authorities to manage the waste, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam to deposit interim compensation of Rs. 1 crore…
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Ramky Enviro has inaugurated a new biogas plant at the Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HiMSW) site. The project is focused on conversion of landfill gas into compressed biogas as an automotive fuel. The plant converts…
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A year into its existing contract with Amritsar Municipal Corporation, Averda has announced another contract with the city for waste management, recycling and treatment in the majority of Amritsar. The waste management company has been…
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The new biogas plant currently under construction in the village of Shahanshahpur, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh, should start operations by the end of October, as reported recently. About 90% of the work has so far…
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Having spent more than a year clearing legacy waste using its own equipment, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has decided to speed-up the process by hiring a private contractor for the same. EDMC Commissioner…
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The Goa State Government has announced in its budget speech for 2021-2022 to provide financial incentives to support cattle, pig and poultry farmers in setting up biogas plants to process manure, as reported by The…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) has provided INR 3.5 million (EUR 40,000) to IIT Ropar for conducting a detailed project report (DPR) and an RfP report for the upgrade of a WtE plant in Dadumajra,…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation has said it collected Rs 11.53 lakh from citizens between October 10 to 23 for dumping garbage and Rs 11.12 lakh for throwing construction waste, reports DT Next. According to…
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WasteAid, a UK-based international NGO, has announced two winners of its Zero Waste Cities Challenge in Guwahati. Local entrepreneurs from Shree Guru Plastic and Inside Out each won €10,000 and six months of business mentoring…
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Visakhapatnam’s new Waste-to-Energy Processing Plant was formally inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on October 23. Trial runs of the plant began earlier this month, on October 2, 2021. Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal…
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The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD), Uttarakhand, is currently planning to set up a new agricultural biogas plant in the city. The MCD is in talks with the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), according…
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UK-based Greenback Recycling Technologies Ltd. has agreed on an MoU with Indian chemical recycling technology firm Polycycl. As further reported, the companies will form business partnerships to implement plastic-to-oil projects in India, which will be…
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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with the Office of the PSA, GoI is organizing its annual Conference on Waste-to-Worth from 16-17 November 2021. This year’s theme is ‘Moving towards a Circular Economy through…
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A Mumbai-based start-up is developing waste management solutions for the City of Mumbai, Maharashtra, according to a report by The Times of India. The solutions are aimed at bio and medical waste as well as…
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Adani Total Gas has reportedly signed an agreement for a 350 tpd agricultural Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) plant at Barsana, located in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Main feedstock would be cattle dung, alongside further types of input,…
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After removing hundreds of bins from vegetable markets, major chowks and congested areas, the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has had a rethink. It now plants to retain 200 bins at these locations. KMC authorities claim…
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The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has issued notices to 968 bulk waste generators for allegedly failing to comply with solid waste disposal norms. These include 436 residential societies and high-rises, and 532 establishments, like banquet halls…
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The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved a case of recovery from Ecoman Enviro Solutions Pvt Limited after its ten thermal composting plants failed to function in the last ten years.…
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The Ghaziabad municipal corporation will soon be initiating the concept of ‘zero waste wards’ which will include 10 residential wards on a pilot basis. Officials of the corporation said that waste generated from the wards…
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On the occasion of International E-Waste Day 2021, leading experts and producer responsibility organisations (PROs) are calling on households, businesses and governments to get behind efforts to get more dead or unused plug-in or battery-operated…
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The Union cabinet has approved the continuation of Swachh Bharat Mission (urban) and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) for five years till 2025-26. The financial outlay for Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) till 2025-26 is an…
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Niti Aayog has suggested that urban local bodies (ULBs) could provide land to set up material recovery facilities (MRFs) to be used by various industries to set up infrastructure for efficient plastic waste management. In its…
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The Madras High Court has allowed the setting up of micro-compost centres (MCC) in parks and playgrounds across Coimbatore. The civic body had proposed to decentralize waste collection and disposal by constructing MCCs at 69…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has written to the state government seeking a special grant of Rs 250 crore for Mahadevapura and Byatarayanapura where the Palike plans to send the city’s mixed waste. In…
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South Delhi’s Tehkhand Waste to Energy plant will become operational by August next year, according to South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) officials. The boilers being imported from China are expected to arrive later this year,…
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The Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation has launched 100 new battery-powered waste collection vehicles and two automated road sweeping trucks to improve its solid waste management efforts in the city. The vehicles were purchased at a cost…
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A team constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) visited the Jhuriwala dumping site in Chandigarh for unscientific waste dumping after the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) pointed out alleged violations by the city’s civic corporation.…
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Robotics startup Ishitva Robotic Systems (IRS) has raised over $1 million as part of its Pre-Series A round, led by Inflection Point Ventures. The funds raised will be deployed to grow sales and expand Ishitva’s…
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The deadline for submitting RfP documents for the Bainguinim WtE project was prolonged. According to a senior officier, this was due to requests from several bidders at the pre-bid meeting, as reported by The Times…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has sanctioned the setting up of a waste treatment plant to process used sanitary napkins and diapers at Uruli. The plant will have the capacity to treat 8 metric tonnes…
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Hitachi Zosen India Private Limited (HZIPL) has been awarded a contract by Antony Lara Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd. to deliver a 700 tpd stoker type incineration line for the WtE project in Maharashtra’s Pimpri Chinchwad…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has received offers from four private players to install new technology and restart operations of the decommissioned Sarasbaug biogas plant in Pune, Maharashtra. As further reported in late September, in…
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The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $150 million program to support the Government of Tamil Nadu to transform Chennai into a world-class city that is more green, livable, competitive, and resilient…
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Six acres of land have been cleared for the construction of a WtE plant expansion at the Bandhwari landfill site, according to a report by Hindustan Times. The remaining four acres are due to be…
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Three municipalities of New Delhi – North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations – have set targets to treat the waste piled up in their landfills. From bio-mining of legacy waste to setting up of…
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Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi has launched Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation 2.0. The goal of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0’ is to make the cities garbage-free, he said. The…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has decided to curtail the size of its upcoming engineered landfill at Tehkhand near Okhla, to 24 acres, instead of the 27.34 acres planned earlier. An area of 7.34…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has fined EcoGreen Energy Pvt Ltd for breach of contract and failure to operate the Shivri solid waste treatment plant at full capacity. A Rs 2.2 crore fine has been…
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Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to establish waste to energy plant in Delhi to convert Municipal Solid Waste into Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) for use…
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will launch the Clean Andhra Pradesh (CLAP)-Jagananna Swachha Sankalpam on October 2. The CM will flag off 2,600 garbage collecting vehicles at Benz Circle in Vijayawada…
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Mumbai-based Policy Advocacy Research Centre (PARC) recently released a report titled “WARSA”, an acronym for Waste As Resource by changing Stakeholders’ Approach. WARSA is an initiative introducing a system thinking approach in the solid waste…
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East Delhi is taking measures to beef up its waste collection system. Starting January 1, east Delhi residents will have to pay a fine if they do not segregate their household waste. A penalty of…
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Following a petition by local residents claiming violations in dumping of waste at the Jawaharnagar dumpsite by waste management firm Ramky Enviro Engineers, the National Green Tribunal has asked the Telangana State Pollution Control Board…
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The two MSW treatment and recycling plants in Kesare and Rayanakere, located in Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka, have not made any further progress since late 2020, reports Star of Mysore. According to a the source, the…
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Two paddy straw biomass projects in Punjab are facing delays and are now expected to become operational in 2022, as reported by The Times of India. This includes a 10 MW project in Fatehgarh Sahib…
