Aafrin Kidwai
Siddipet civic authorities have geo-tagged all their pickup vehicles in order to keep a strict vigil on the door-to-door collection of garbage. Municipal Chairman Kadavergu Rajanarsu, who launched the vehicle-tracking facility told Telangana Today that…
Aafrin Kidwai
UP’s Meerut city has finally got its first Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Plant in-charge Saurabh Kumar Chaubey informed news agency ANI, “Entire garbage from city area is brought here, segregated and then treated for recycling.”…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kanpur Municipal Corporation claims that it has cleared nearly 8 lakh cubic metres of legacy waste within a span of 10 months, starting January 2020. Massive amounts of waste had accumulated at its defunct…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Armed forces to hold a meeting with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to develop an in-house monitoring mechanism for scientific waste management. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Confederation of India Industry (CII) in association with Technology Development Board, GoI and supported by Swachh Bharat Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, GoI is organizing the International Conference and Exhibition on Waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Commissioner G. Srijana has said that the corporation had achieved 84% door-to-door garbage collection. The activity was monitored through Online Waste Management System (OWMS). Ms Srijana said that now workers…
Aafrin Kidwai
A 19.8 MW waste to energy (WtE) plant at Jawahar Nagar was inaugurated today. It is the first Waste to Energy Plant in South India with a capacity to process about 1200 tonnes per day…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Confederation of India Industry (CII) in association with Technology Development Board, GoI and supported by Swachh Bharat Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, GoI is organizing the International Conference and Exhibition on Waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come up with a fresh proposal to set up large bio-methanation plants for treating organic solid waste at two different locations in the City. This time, the civic…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Telangana government is going to release a comprehensive Waste Management Policy soon, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K Taraka Rama Rao informed The Hindu. Inaugurating a Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Recycling plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Telangana government has constituted 960 teams for taking up an intensive drive to lift the garbage that is accumulated in different parts of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar said…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has planned to incentivize residents and the corporation’s staff in order to better manage the source-segregation of solid waste generated daily in the city. Officials told the Hindustan Times that starting…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka High Court has directed the Bengaluru civic body (BBMP) to submit measures taken to ensure the segregation of biomedical waste generated from homes where Covid-19 patients are in isolation as well as that…
Aafrin Kidwai
Anticipating that no bidders are likely to qualify for setting up of the solid waste management facility at Bainguinim, the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) may relax the criteria for bidders and float a fresh…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Great Hyderabad Municipal Commission (GHMC) might soon finalise the formal commissioning of a new 19MW waste-to-energy plant in the Jawaharnagar dump yard. The GHMC has been already working on the project along with Ramky…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The fourth and the last session of the day at the CII’s Waste To Worth conference held on October 30 was all about the many challenges facing the waste management sector in India. Titled “Exploring…
Aafrin Kidwai
After years of discussions and debate, a special monitoring committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal has decided to bioremediate nearly 8-lakh metric tons of garbage at the Wariana village along the Kapurthala road, Jalandhar.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Rs 1,100 crore Deonar waste-to-energy plant proposal has been cleared by the BMC standing committee. The contract was allotted to the lowest bidder-Chennai M S W Pvt Ltd, without any discussion in the standing…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to approach the district administration and Maharashtra state government for a piece of land in order to set up a waste processing unit and manage waste scientifically. At…
Aafrin Kidwai
Garbage contractors in Bengaluru are demanding that outstanding bills worth Rs 360 crore must be paid immediately by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), or else they will stop garbage collection from November 5. Mr…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) Solid Waste Management Department and The Ugly Indian, a group of anonymous volunteers who work to keep the city clean, are collaborating to identify locations to set up garbage…
Aafrin Kidwai
The CII’s International Waste to Worth Conference saw pertinent discussions among national and international waste experts on a range of issues. As official media partners for the event, Solid Waste India has been bringing you exhaustive coverage…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Confederation of India Industry (CII) in association with Technology Development Board, GoI and supported by Swachh Bharat Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affair, GoI is organizing the International Conference and Exhibition on Waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC)’s recent online solution for public feedback regarding waste collection by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is resulting in tough action. The contracts of six NGOs have been already terminated on the basis…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The CII’s International Waste to Worth Conference saw relevant discussions among national and international waste experts on a range of issues. As official media partners for the event, Solid Waste India has been bringing you exhaustive coverage…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bombay High Court has allowed the Pune Municipal Corporation to access dumping sites at Phursungi and Uruli Devachi on an undertaking that it will conduct biomining activities only – and not dump unprocessed garbage.…
Aafrin Kidwai
Karnal has acquired 40 new tippers and 2 JCBs under the Smart City Project. The Municipal Corporation has a total of 90 new tippers, with 4 tippers allotted to each ward as compared to two…
Aafrin Kidwai
Waste processing work undertaken by the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) will be partially affected over the next few days following a major fire at its new 200 metric tonne capacity plant at Dalvinagar in Ambegaon…
Aafrin Kidwai
Work on Kerala’s first waste-to-energy (WtE) plant at Njeliyanparamba, Kozhikode has begun. The WtE plant is being set up on 12.67 acres of Corporation land by Zonta Infratech Private Limited. The ₹250-crore project is expected…
Aafrin Kidwai
The day-long CII International Waste to Worth Conference on Friday saw a series of engaging discussions by industry stalwarts on various topics revolving around the theme of “Achieving a circular economy through the 3Rs.” In…
Aafrin Kidwai
The CII’s International Waste to Worth Conference saw a line-up of high profile speakers from the waste sector share their views on “Achieving a Circular Economy through 3R Techniques.” The first session on “Glocal Models…
Aafrin Kidwai
The CII 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Awards were announced during the International CII Waste to Worth Conference on Friday. The Awards are designed to recognise the efforts of companies who have set benchmarks in three…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) is exhorting citizens to participate in handling domestic waste on their own by offering 50% rebate in SWM cess levied with property tax and in trade license. The MCC will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has intensified its crackdown measures on solid waste management violations. From June 1- October 27, the civic authority has collected Rs 75 lakh as fines. Sarfaraz Khan, joint commissioner…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Vapi Nagarpalika in Gujarat has informed the NGT that 50 tonnes of waste is generated every day within its municipality limits. Following a complaint of improper waste management, the civic body has reported that…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Chief Secretary and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to look into the issue of availability of suitable land for solid waste management at Ranikhera in north west…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Association Of Hospitals (AFP) in Pune has strongly opposed rate hikes for biomedical waste collection introduced by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recently. Calling it unilateral and arbitrary, the association has written to PMC requesting…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Two years after the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) tasked Ms. Biomining India Pvt Ltd to clear the Mulund dumping site, only 10% of the waste has been treated. In 2018, the contractor was…
Aafrin Kidwai
Delhi has a new biogas plant at the Ghazipur landfill site. The plant holds a capacity to treat 15 tonnes of waste in a day producing 1500 units of energy daily. The plant will manage…
Aafrin Kidwai
A Smart Garbage Monitoring System is being developed by the state-run electronics enterprise Keltron for waste management in Kerala. The system, which will be implemented by the Haritha Keralam Mission through the Local Self Government…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Owing to the pandemic, Ayudha Puja and Vijayadashami celebrations have been low-key, leading to reduced festival waste generation as per office of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) cell of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Durgapur-based CSIR institute’s decentralised solid waste processing facility has devised a new technology that can be installed at residential complexes, shopping complexes, to convert all waste into useful end products, including plastic. As per a…
Moumita Battacharjee
The CII’s International Conference on Waste to Worth is scheduled to be held on October 30 and the excitement is mounting. This year, the CII will honour excellence in waste management through its much-awaited 3R…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has plans to establish 50 transfer stations where municipal solid waste collected from households can be directly dumped into portable compactors to be transported to waste processing plants. Five…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Bengaluru civic body has deployed a new fleet of dry waste collection vehicles. Gas Authority Of India Limited (GAIL) gave away 18 CNG collection vehicles to the BBMP for the ease of collecting dry…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Last week’s heavy downpour and floods in Hyderabad have led to the generation of nearly 20,000-tonne garbage. The civic body has claimed to remove 10.386 tonnes in the last four days. This was done as…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has emphasised on the need to contain the spread of COVID-19 through contact with infectious waste. UNIDO India Representative Rene Van Berkel explained it can be made possible through…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka government has approved the state’s Urban Solid Waste Management (SWM) Policy-2020 and the Urban Solid Waste Management Strategy-2020. The new policy sets an ambitious target of achieving 100% segregation at source of solid…
Aafrin Kidwai
Sanitation workers and garbage collectors in Chandigarh have announced an indefinite strike in the city from today. The door-to-door waste collectors have decided to support the strike call by the Safai Karamchari Union. They are…
Aafrin Kidwai
Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has resolved to go ahead with seven biomethanation plants at Sonsoddo. The decision was taken after a huge ruckus at a council meeting during which BJP and Congress councillors alleged that…
