Aafrin Kidwai
In a bid to further strengthen waste management system in the state, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has approved an Integrated Solid Waste Management Cluster Project for the state. Under the first phase of…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has withdrawn a fleet of recently launched dumpers following complaints from sanitation workers. According to a Free Press Journal report, the staff had submitted written complaints to senior authorities. Lack of training…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Indore Municipal Corporation has launched a new initiative called the Plastic Premier League to reduce plastic pollution during the festive season and make citizens aware of the harm that plastic can cause to the…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in September, 2019, a committee comprising the Central Pollution Control Board and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has submitted its report on Pune’s Baner waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) will form a development cell involving officials, members from the ruling and opposition parties to implement a waste segregation plan effectively in 60 wards of the city. A decision in this…
Aafrin Kidwai
Coimbatore’s Bharathiar University has been commissioned to study the characterization and quantification of solid waste that is generated in the city corporation limits. The environmental science department of the university has received the corporation’s nod…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has filed a report before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) regarding the treatment of waste at its abandoned dump yard in Kureepuzha, Kollam. Most recently, the site was…
Aafrin Kidwai
Lonavla, the popular hill-station near Mumbai, has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it will treat legacy waste within the next few months. As per an affidavit filed by the Lonavla Municipal Council before…
Aafrin Kidwai
Isgec has won an order for setting up a 11.5 MW waste to energy plant for the Karnataka Power Corporation to be set up in Bidadi, an industrial hub located 32 km from Bengaluru. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
The CII’s International Conference on Waste to Worth on October 30 is barely two weeks away. This year, the conference will revolve around the theme ‘Achieving circular economy through innovative 3R techniques’. Through this event, the…
Aafrin Kidwai
After getting rid of nearly all the legacy waste dumped in its yard over the last three decades, the Koothattukulam municipality along the eastern border of the district is set to shift to a waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The quantum of waste collected in Nagpur has reduced significantly, by more than a third, during the pandemic. As per data procured from Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) solid waste management department, waste collected in September…
Aafrin Kidwai
After several delays, a new construction and demolition plant will come up at Dhandari Kalan area. Built at the cost of approximately Rs 7.90 crore under the smart city mission. Request for proposal (RFP) for…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Global E-Waste Monitor identifies e-waste as the fastest growing waste stream in the world. India generated 3.2 million metric tonnes of e-waste in 2019 alone, making it the third-largest contributor to e-waste in the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The High Court of Karnataka has deplored the failure of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to prosecute public servants for not implementing the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. A Division Bench said that…
Aafrin Kidwai
It’s the first major virtual exhibition in the Indian waste sector since the pandemic began. The Confederation of India Industry (CII), in association with the Technology Development Board, Government of India, and supported by Swachh Bharat…
Aafrin Kidwai
Coimbatore Corporation will soon commission five more micro compost centres (MCCs) to strengthen solid waste management in the city. The Corporation will start using the compost centres in Kavundampalayam dump yard, MGR wholesale vegetable market,…
Aafrin Kidwai
Four companies participated in the pre-bid meeting for the solid waste management plant at Bainguinim. A senior official said that bidders appreciated the tender document and sought relaxation in criteria for the bidding process and…
Aafrin Kidwai
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have achieved 100 per cent door-to-door collection of solid waste, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has said. The Ministry said that both states shared the details in a review meeting…
Aafrin Kidwai
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd is deploying customised Mercedes Benz trucks for waste collection as part of its ambitious secondary waste collection project for The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. “Gone are the days when citizens have…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad has instructed heads of all departments in the civic body not to take up any new projects or float tenders as the model code of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Power Corporations Limited (KPCL) will set up an 11.5 MW waste to energy (WTE) plant at the cost of Rs 260 crore in Bidadi in the next two years. The KPCL clarified that the plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ghaziabad municipal corporation will finally begin work to clear legacy waste at its Indirapuram dumpsite, estimated to be about 150,000 tonnes. The Ghaziabad development authority (GDA) will fund the project that is estimated to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has issued an advisory to RWAs, Market Trader’s Associations (MTAs), hotels and clubs for managing their solid waste. The purpose is to match the quantity of waste being generated…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) will soon put into action its plan to transform waste generated in the twin cities into torrefied charcoal that will be used at thermal power plants in lieu of fossil…
Aafrin Kidwai
Dubai-based Averda has completed a share sale and purchase of Amritsar MSW Limited. It will now undertake various environmental services for waste management in Amritsar, including municipal solid waste management, waste to energy and recycling.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala government’s decision to re-tender its waste-to-energy plants in eight districts, including Ernakulam, has kicked up a row. The decision to entrust the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) with the re-tendering work too…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is adding 650 more Swachh Auto Tippers (SAT) to the present fleet of 2,500 SATs to implement better door-to-door waste segregation. Each SAT will cover 400 to 800 households…
Aafrin Kidwai
A panel set up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the municipal corporation to fully implement the segregation of waste collected from door to door in Chandigarh by October 31, reports The Hindustan…
Aafrin Kidwai
The newly posted commissioner of Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) Cheechung Chukhu has said garbage management will be his priority. In a recent media interaction, he said innovative ideas are needed to address the growing problem…
Aafrin Kidwai
In a bid to ensure effective waste management in the city and hold the municipal authorities accountable, the Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) has initiated a six-crore project called Solid Waste Management Vehicle Tracking and…
Aafrin Kidwai
A Jalandhar-based firm has been allotted the contract to construct a solid waste management plant, 10 km from the Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Ambala Cantonment. The Cantonment Board will provide the land to…
Aafrin Kidwai
In a trend seen in many other parts of the country, Gurugram has reported that segregation of food waste from Covid waste is not being done at most households in home isolation or at isolation…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has undertaken the work of clearing the debris off the Adharwadi dumping ground and levelling it after which the work of development of a garden will begin. KDMC…
Aafrin Kidwai
The NGT has expressed dissatisfaction regarding the management of legacy wastes in West Bengal. The bench has described the capping of the mountain of legacy wastes without biomining as illegal according to the solid waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Speaking on the occasion of the Swachchata Diwas, Minister of State – MoHUA, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, underlined the importance paid to urban spaces by the Modi government. Mr Puri said the greatest success of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Swachhata Ke 6 Saal Bemisaal event on the occasion of sixth anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) on Gandhi Jayanti in New Delhi today is focussing on the experiences of various states and…
Aanchal Bansal
Launched on Gandhi Jayanti in 2014, the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) has come a long way. Aimed at transforming the behavior of citizens on issues of cleanliness and sanitation, the program has changed the way…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following a directive by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) earlier in February this year, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has recommended setting up a pilot fine pulverization unit to manage the potential environmental risk…
Aafrin Kidwai
Waste segregation at source (WSS) will be uniformly implemented in all 60-wards of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) from October 2. Following a pilot run, authorities have decided to go ahead with their plans. They will…
Aanchal Bansal
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has released a report on the impact of the lockdown imposed by the central government to curb the spread of COVID 19 between the months of March and May.…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) inspection of three waste to energy plants in Delhi has resulted in the discovery of high cadmium levels in fly ash at Bawana and Ghazipur plants. A report was…
Aanchal Bansal
Beginning October, Urbaser-Sumeet is set to take-over solid waste management in seven zones of Chennai city. A grand inaugural ceremony was streamlined live, a recording of which is available here. While the Spanish firm has…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has filed its Action Taken Report (ATR) in compliance with a National Green Tribunal order dated May 20, 2020. The matter relates to the management of construction and demolition (C&D)…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) dismissed an appeal filed by the Bainguinim Citizens Forum against the environmental clearance (EC) granted to the Solid Waste Management Facility at Bainguinim taluka in North Goa. The Goa Waste Management…
Aanchal Bansal
Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri aims for number one spot in Swachta Survekshan survey by removing legacy waste at landfill site and setting up centralised waste segregation and recycling units, reports SolidWasteIndia’s Aanchal Bansal After grabbing the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has issued a tender to outsource door-to-door garbage collection and transportation services to a private agency. CCP has categorised the work in two packages – wet waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is planning to implement a decentralised waste management system for proper disposal of solid waste in residential sectors of Greater Noida. Five clusters will be formed across all sectors…
Aafrin Kidwai
The BBMP has called for expression of interest for setting up domestic hazardous waste facilities in the city. Mr Randeep, special commissioner, solid waste management, BBMP, informed The Deccan Herald that while waste is segregated…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) will be setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) at Dadumajra for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. Spread over 8 acres, the site will be…
