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Following general feedback from the public, the Greater Chennai Corporation plans to complete all cleaning and maintenance work in the city at night-time. This is intended to prevent traffic disruption and inconvenience to the public.…
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Geocycle India, the in-house waste management arm of Ambuja Cements Limited and ACC Limited, has co-processed about 2 million tons of waste and achieved a TSR of 6% in 2021, according to a press release…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is working towards the bio-remediation and reclamation of landfill area at Bandhwari. The site will be cleared at an estimated Rs 16 crore within a month. It will then…
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Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Mr Kaushal Kishore has shared that Himachal Pradesh and Goa are the two states in the country which are processing the highest amount of 98% of the…
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Japan-based trading and investment company Mitsui & Co has announced its intention to invest INR 300 million (EUR 3.4 million) in Mumbai-based Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Pvt Ltd (PRESPL), according to a news from The…
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The Odisha State Government, via the State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA), has recently granted permission for a total of seven industrial projects, reports Business Standard. One of these projects is a 100 kilolitres…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has revealed its earnings from composting in the last three months: Rs 1.59 lakh. The income was generated through the sale of compost generated at the Bhandewadi dumping yard. In…
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Aluminium and copper producer, Hindalco Industries, has announced investments for its sites in Hirakud (Odisha), Silvassa (Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu) and Mundra (Gujarat), as reported by The Times of India. At…
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In Ludhiana, local authorities have started to crackdown on plastic-bag use. 125 kg plastic bags were confiscated by municipal teams during raids at markets in Ludhiana’s Field Ganj, Khud Mohalla, Baba Than Singh Chowk and…
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IL&FS Energy Development Co. Ltd. (IEDCL) plans to sell its currently non-operational 13 MW biomass power plant in Shendra MIDC, Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The Economic Times reports that IEDCL’s subsidiary, Shendra Green Energy Ltd (SGEL) has…
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Dilapidated windrow composting sheds, overflowing leachate, blocked drains, fresh waste dumped over legacy waste. These are some of the scenes at the Brahmapuram dumpsite, as reported by a State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) appointed by…
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The J&K State Level Apex Committee (SLAC) has directed that 100% door-to-door waste collection be implemented in all J&K towns by October 2, 2021. This was decided during the recently held 8th SLAC meeting on…
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There are ongoing protests against a proposed relocation of the Chandrapur landfill in Guwahati, Assam. According to the Assam Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, Debabrata Saikia, original plans provided for setting up a Waste to…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has awarded the work of preparation of a detailed project report (DPR) and a Request for Proposal (RfP) for the upgradation of a solid waste processing plant in Dadumajra, Sector 25,…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is planning to hand over collection of certain non-recyclable wastes such as thermacol and rexine to the Clean Kerala Company Ltd. In the absence of an official collection mechanism by the Corporation,…
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India generated 10,14,961.2 tonnes of e-waste in 2020, which is a 31.6 per cent increase from 2019, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed the Rajya Sabha earlier this…
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CNIM MARTIN Private Limited (CMPL), the Asian subsidiary of CNIM and MARTIN, has signed a contract for the supply of the main components of the WtE plant to be built in Songkhla Province, Thailand for…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has announced strict action against bulk waste generators who fail to manage their wet waste on-site. The MCC has declared a three-month deadline for all bulk generators to start processing…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced it will implement the SWM Rules 2016 strictly once again. Rules were relaxed since March owing to a sharp rises in cases during the second wave of the…
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The plastic manufacturers and traders’ association in Ludhiana has announced yet another agitation against the state government’s decision to impose a plastic ban starting August 1. In 2016, the state government had announced a ban…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched weekly door-to-door collection of electronic waste (e-waste). The drive is being conducted to avoid the mixing of municipal solid waste with e-waste at the household level. The e-waste…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) is planning to install CCTV cameras at garbage black spots in the city to catch offenders. The state government has approved the BBMP’s plans to install 2415 CCTVs at,…
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Noida-based Lohum Cleantech has announced plans to expand its manufacturing and recycling capacity for lithium ion batteries. While production shall increase from 300 MWh to 1,000 MWh, the recycling capacity is planned to jump from…
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The Kochi Corporation Council has given its green signal to Zonta Infratech for carrying out biomining of legacy waste at the Brahmapuram dumpsite. The council also decided to hand over 20 acres at Brahmapuram to…
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Haryana Power Purchase Center (HPPC)’s demand for a review of the tariff for the 1.2 MW poultry litter biogas plant in Morkhi, Jind District, Haryana, was rejected by the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC). As…
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The Government of India is currently in preparations for setting up a new biogas plant at the Parag Dairy in Ramnagar, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh. Jagran reports that when operational, the plant shall produce 500…
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Over a week after a major fire incident at the Bandhwari landfill in Gurugram, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said there appear to be serious lapses and continued failure on the part of the…
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A notice has been issued to the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation by the Punjab and Haryana high court following a public interest litigation (PIL). The PIL has been filed by city resident seeking over air pollution…
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Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has announced plans for two recycling plants to treat floral and e-waste at Mutyalampadu and Ajith Singh Nagar. The city generates 15 tonnes of floral waste and seven tonne of electronic…
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Varanasi will have a new Waste to Energy (WtE) plant based on torrefaction technology, with a capacity of 600 tpd waste. The plant is expected to be commissioned in Ramna area by September next year. India’s…
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Two new waste facilities were inaugurated at separate locations in Jammu last week. Katra has a new organic waste convertor and Material Recovery, reports news agency UNI. It has a capacity of 200 kg per…
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Ghaziabad has announced it will remove about 600,000 metric tonnes of legacy waste at two landfill sites by early next year. The Pratap Vihar landfill site has nearly 450,000 metric tonnes of waste, while Indirapuram…
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The Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) has asked bulk waste generators to segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste on their premises. Failure to do so by a fixed time limit will lead to a penalty. As…
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Chandigarh’s civic authorities have decided to upgrade the solid waste processing plant in Sector 25 (Dadumajra) to a Waste to Energy plant. The decision was taken after a year of research and visits to other…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has announced it will close over 70 open dumping points in the city, following complaints by residents. At present, workers dump waste collected from various localities at designated points across the…
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A recent study by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found significant mismatch in government data on COVID-19 biomedical waste and infrastructure for managing this hazardous waste. Mr Atin Biswas, programme director, Solid…
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Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has announced the tariff for purchasing energy from the proposed 750 tpd WtE facility in Pune, Maharashtra. The revised tariff is INR 7.45 (EUR 0.085)/kWh, reports Mercom India. This, as…
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Agricultural cooperative NAFED has laid the foundation stone of a municipal solid waste (MSW) processing plant of 350 tpd capacity in Jammu. Expected to cost Rs 80 crore, the project is expected to be completed…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced plans to set up a 200MT waste processing plant for the 23 villages recently included in the PMC urban agglomeration. The PMC will receive Rs 200 crore from the…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to procure 1,350 Swachh Auto Tippers (SATs) to pick up waste from households. The GHMC has invited requests for a proposal to supply and deliver 1,350 SATs…
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The closure of the Mulund dumping ground in Mumbai is delayed once again, ostensibly due to a shortage of labourers during the lockdown during pandemic and the monsoon. Mulund has Mumbai’s second largest dumping ground…
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Mahindra Waste to Energy Solutions Limited (MWTESL) was established by the Mahindra Group in 2017 to focus on converting municipal solid waste to BioCNG. Since 2018, Mr. Palaniappan P, as CEO of MWTESL, has led the…
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National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will no longer execute Mohali’s Waste to Energy (WtE) project. NTPC was to construct and operate a WtE plant at Samgauli. No reason has been given for NTPC’s exit. The…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to appoint a Project Management Consultant (PMC) to supervise the construction of Mumbai’s first waste to energy (WtE) plant at Deonar. The consultant will be responsible for approving the…
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A new report from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum (WEF) has hailed India’s deployment of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), underlining that India is well-positioned to lead global efforts to produce clean fuels for aviation.…
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Indian recycling company Gravita India Ltd. wants to enter the electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling market and is currently in discussion with a European technology provider. Gravita India Ltd. is mainly active in lead batteries…
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The Gujurat state government has granted permission for the development of five new Treatment Stabilization Disposal Facilities (TSDF) for the treatment of hazardous waste. This decision was made, as further reported, against the background that…
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The Ludhiana civic body has agreed to increase its tipping fee by Rs 101 to Rs 425, following pressure from the private contractor after it gave an ultimatum to stop lifting waste. The final decision…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) plans to purchase 122 tree and plastic shredders worth Rs 15 cr, a decision that has earned criticism from SWM experts since the BBMP already had purchased shredders earlier…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is planning to revive the usage of aerobic bins in the city. Over the years, a total of 520 such bin units were installed at 52 locations to process biodegradable waste at…
