Aafrin Kidwai
Sweden-based H&M Foundation and Social Alpha have joined hands to launch “Techtonic – Innovations in Waste Management”, a nationwide mission to identify and curate locally designed, disruptive innovations addressing problems in waste management and improving the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Telangana government is gearing up for comprehensive waste management reforms with a new policy for decentralised waste management in the city. It is developing 17 transfer stations, pressing into service additional 650 swachh auto…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is reportedly planning to submit a proposal to the government to form a separate board or entity for solid waste management in the city. The entity, an arm of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Union government has extended the date for physical verification of Swacch Survekshan by two months. Earlier, inspection teams were due to visit cities for field inspection in January, but this time it will take…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly has approved the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) Bill 2020, promising sweeping administrative and structural changes. Now, gram panchayats and town municipalities within one square km radius of BBMP will be…
Aafrin Kidwai
Haridwar district administration plans to impose solid waste management charges on tourists and pilgrims who come to the city and stay in hotels and dharamshalas. The actual amount is yet to be decided but sources…
Aafrin Kidwai
Circulate Capital, the Singapore-based investment management company, has announced that the Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF) has committed to investing US$19 million in four leading companies that are using technology and innovation to scale and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) monitoring committee urged the Chandigarh administration to upgrade the machinery of the JayPee plant for achieving 100 percent solid waste management. The NGT team urged the concerned officials to upgrade…
Aafrin Kidwai
Multilateral lending agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 2.5 million (about Rs 18 crore) technical assistance (TA) to support advanced biofuel development in India. ADB Finance Specialist for South Asia Jongmi Son said the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued an order to the solid waste management department to conduct an audit of its waste processing units. They want a scientific scrutiny of the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stated that remedial action needs to be taken by the Solan Municipal Council and sought an action taken report with all the details, including legacy waste cleared, biomined, quantity…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has collected lakhs of rupees in penalties in the past few months through fines from residents violating solid waste management rules. BBMP data shows marshals and health workers collected fines…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Andhra Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) department has given administrative sanction for the release of Rs 316 crore as the first instalment under the grant of 15th finance commission for taking up various…
Aafrin Kidwai
On December 8, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and supported by Nordic Innovation is organizing a webinar on ‘Nordic for India’ focused on Clean India Mission and National Water Mission. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has laid the foundation stone for a 11.5 MW waste to energy project in Bidadi. With a capital investment of Rs 260 crore, the plant will consume 600 tonnes…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Indore Municipal Corporation has become the first civic body in India to ink a pact with producer responsibility organisations (PROs) authorised by the MP Pollution Board for disposing of plastic waste. Municipal Commissioner Pratibha…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Patna Municipal Corporation has decided to turn traditional dumping sites into green sites by potting plants in all wards. This is being done in a bid to earn points in the Swacch Sarvekshan 2021…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is set to convert two new quarry pits at Mittaganahalli and Bagalur into landfills to dump waste generated by citizens. The quarry landfill at Mittaganahalli, where over 2,000 tonnes…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
In a bid to make the residents of Gurugram aware of the importance of segregating dry, wet, and hazardous wastes at the source, the municipal corporation has come up with an innovative way of providing…
Moumita Bhattacharya
After piling up unprocessed waste at Patvi dumping site for 12 years, Haryana has kickstarted operations to settle the waste on site. Following the National Green Tribunal’s instructions, a private company has been assigned the…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
In what is probably a first-of-its-kind attempt by an Indian city, Indore has sold carbon credits earned for its sustainable projects, including a bio-methanation plant and compost plant, generating revenue worth Rs 50 lakh. MoHUA…
Aafrin Kidwai
Goa has been in the news of late for its various waste-management pursuits. State capital Panaji recently announced plans to set up biomethanation plants across the city to cut down on wet-waste, even as it implements a…
Aafrin Kidwai
North Delhi Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal for setting up a second waste-to-energy plant at Ranikhera after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC). The civic body is at…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against unidentified people in connection with the fire at Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi that started on Tuesday night and continued through Wednesday. As the landfill fire…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has extended the time limit for accepting bids for the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim for the second time after three earlier bidders raised a lot of queries.…
Aafrin Kidwai
In a decisive move, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has issued notices and challans to residents welfare association for non-segregation of waste at the source. 1400 notices were issued and 122 residents were fined for…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Chandigarh Environment Standing Committee has taken cognizance of reports that segregated wastes collected door-to-door in Chandigarh is being dumped unsegregated at the landfill. Indian Express reports that committee chairman, former MP Pawan Kumar Bansal said…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Vizag’s Waste to Energy plant is likely to be functional by next month. Greater Vishakapatnam Municipal Corporation wants to leave a good impression on the Swacch Sarvekshan 2021 crew due in January and has thus…
Aafrin Kidwai
With a significant increase in fresh Covid cases, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) is planning to set up a bio-medical waste disposal facility solely for such waste generated by households, mostly of patients in…
Aafrin Kidwai
New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has announced a decision that asphalt used in the repair or construction of roads will now have plastic waste as one of its constituents. The Telegraph reports that the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mumbai civic authorities plan to set up a biomethanation plant in South Mumbai’s D ward with the support of corporate funding and resident associations. According to the proposal, the plant will process two metric…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to focus on home composting in big residential housing societies and is planning to rope in non-government organisations (NGOs) for helping the housing societies in carrying out this…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka govt has sought the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) views on setting up an independent new agency to look at the functioning of seven waste processing units. The collection and transportation of garbage…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
TRS working president and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao confirmed that the government is already in the process of decentralisation of garbage collection, recycling of waste and improve sewage treatment. The initiative will speed…
Aafrin Kidwai
Noida plans to discontinue the temporary dumping site in Sector 145 and replace it with the permanent landfill site in Dostpur Mangroli on Yamuna Pushta. The Noida Authority has identified the site which is located…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is planning to streamline the management of e-waste and the floral waste being generated in the city by facilitating the collection, transportation, processing, and disposal of this waste. The civic body…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to seize bank guarantees of Zirakpur, Banur and Nayagaon municipal councils. The committee directed the PPCB to encash Rs 2 lakh bank…
Aafrin Kidwai
Singapore-headquartered Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte Ltd (Blue Planet) announced today an investment of US$10 million from Sysma Holdings Limited, a Singapore-listed investment holdings company looking to tap into growing opportunities in the circular economy.…
Aafrin Kidwai
After Deonar, the BMC is now planning to set up a waste to energy plant at the Gorai dumping ground. The civic body has appointed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, to study the…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Goa state government has come with a new action plan to put the non-biodegradable waste away. ULBs and Village Panchayats have been directed to include the plastic ban in their by-laws and impose fines…
Aafrin Kidwai
Antony Waste Handling Cell Ltd has filed draft papers with capital markets regulator SEBI to float its initial public offerings (IPO). As per the draft papers, Antony Waste Handling Cell’s IPO comprises fresh issuance of shares…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
RLG India has launched a Clean To Green campaign in Chennai in association with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to free the environment of electronic waste. The campaign aims at the safe…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
East Delhi Municipal Corporation has started work on filling the walls opposite the closed Ghazipur landfill site with art in a bid to improve its Swacch Bharat rankings. In the Swachch Survey 2020, Ghazipur ranked…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Pune Municipal Corporation has reportedly been dumping waste at an unauthorised area near its sanitary landfill in Ramtekdi since the last few days. Recently, the PMC had given an undertaking to Maharashtra Pollution Control…
Aafrin Kidwai
Complying with the guidelines of National Green Tribunal (NGT) and solid waste management rules, a total of 40 garbage compactors are being set-up in Ludhiana to make the city garbage free. In the first phase,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The quantity of hazardous waste generated in Chennai from firecrackers came down by 20% this Diwali. According to a press release from the Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash, the quantity of hazardous waste has…
Aafrin Kidwai
Nearly 160 tonnes of biomedical waste was generated during the Bihar assembly polls held amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the state’s election authorities. This includes gloves, face masks, and empty sanitizer bottles used by polling personnel…
Aafrin Kidwai
Since 2016, when the Government of India notified the E-Waste (Management) Rules, several Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) set up operations for e-waste management in India. Yet several issues persist in terms of effectively enforcing and implementing…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has directed marshals to submit a report on the performance of solid waste collection service providers in the wards where work orders have been issued recently. The BBMP has…
Aafrin Kidwai
Ahmedabad-based Nepra Resource Management, which operates under the brand name ‘Let’s Recycle’, has raised $18 million in Series C funding from Aavishkaar Capital and Circulate Capital, an investment management firm dedicated to incubating and financing…
