Aafrin Kidwai
As much as 74 per cent of municipal solid waste generated in cities and towns of Gujarat was dumped without any processing during five-year period of 2014-19, says a report tabled by the Comptroller and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) has initiated a call for proposals under its Waste Management Technologies (WMT) Program. Launched in 2015, in accordance with the Swachh Bharath Abhiyan, the program…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has invited bids for setting up a solid waste processing facility at Bainguinim with a processing capacity of 250 tonnes per day. The plant, estimated to cost Rs 200…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation for an end to single-use plastics in India, the government had acted with alacrity and announced a phasing out of such plastics by 2022. However, it has now backtracked…
Aafrin Kidwai
Trials to produce electricity from waste has begun at the solid waste management plant at Bhariyal, located on the outskirts of Shimla. Around two-kilowatt power is being produced during the trials every day. The waste-to-energy…
Aanchal Bansal
In the wake of rapid urbanization and challenges in waste disposal plaguing several cities and upcoming urban centers across India, the Rajiv Gandhi institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS) in New Delhi organized an online panel…
Aafrin Kidwai
Visakhapatnam is one among the four cities selected for the PM’s Excellence Awardunder the Swachh Bharat Mission’s Urban Category based on the semi-underground bin system implemented under Smart City. Supplied by Bengaluru-based Zonta Infratech, the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttarakhand government has set a one-year deadline to dispose of around 28 lakh metric tonnes of ‘legacy waste’ that has been piling up over 20 years. The state government is planning to treat the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, in association with several non-profit organisations, has deployed a network of rag pickers in three wards, for door-to-door collection of dry waste. In a month’s time, about 38 wards will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has that announced Prof Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), GoI and Mr. R.P Gupta, Secretary, MoEF&CC will be addressing the inaugural session of its International Waste to Worth…
Aanchal Bansal
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has employed the Japanese method of Miyawaki urban forestry with the goal of turning the infamous garbage mountain at the Ghazipur landfill into a biodiversity park. A municipal official informed…
Aanchal Bansal
Segregation of waste at source and replacement of old garbage trucks will improve efficiency of garbage transportation, integrated waste management expert, Professor Brajesh Kumar Dubey of IIT Kharagpur has said. After an analysis of the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted the plastic recycling value chain owing to extended lockdowns and movement restrictions, as per a study commissioned by Circulate Capital, carried out by GA Circular, to understand challenges faced…
Aafrin Kidwai
Disposal of biomedical waste including PPE kits worn by healthcare professionals, and public became a challenge during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Union Health Ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Sunday. “As informed by Central…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is all set to set up five more dry waste collection centres to process and reuse dry waste, near stationary compactor stations in the twin cities. HDMC had set up a…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Panvel Municipal Corporation has made it mandatory for housing societies to segregate waste at source as the capacity of the Taloja dumping ground is likely to soon get over soon. The ghanta gadi will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, has told the Kerala government that it may consider imprisonment of bureaucrats who fail to comply with its orders seeking action against those responsible…
Aafrin Kidwai
Two consortiums have submitted their technical and financial bids for the Waste to Energy project in Brahmapuram. These include: Zonta Infratech Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru; Zonta Bauer Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Bauer GmbH, Germany; CNIM Martin Pvt.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that landfill-pit is not a ‘plant and machinery’ but a ‘civil-structure’. The ruling was made in the case of the applicant, M/S Mother Earth Environ Tech…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following the NGT’s July order observing that slow progress was being made in the Brahmapuram Waste to Energy (WtE) plant project, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has assured the NGT that the plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has employed 12 trommel machines to clear 2,400 tonnes of legacy waste at the Ghazipur landfill every day. East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir personally visited the site and shared a…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) has decided to install cameras in Buddha Nullah and Sidhwan Canal to rein in litterbugs dumping the garbage. They will upload the violators’ videos or pictures on their Facebook page.…
Aafrin Kidwai
Leachate from Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg dumpyard and stagnant water have killed fish over a two-hectare mangrove forests’ area an environmentalist group has said, filing complaints with various state bodies and the Bombay high court-appointed wetland grievance…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Centre for Science and Environment has released a comprehensive background paper on plastic waste management in India. Titled Managing Plastic Waste in India: Challenges and Agenda, this is CSE’s first document aimed at understanding…
Aafrin Kidwai
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related biomedical waste generated on an average was about 169 tonnes per day for the month of August 2020, Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kr Choubey said in the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has resolved to approve the proposal of the Goa Waste Management Corporation for the installation of seven modular garbage treatment machines at Sonsoddo. The seven machines with a capacity of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in a scientific manner including processing waste –to-compost and other processes. The Government has introduced a policy on the promotion of City Compost…
Aafrin Kidwai
Bengaluru’s Ward no. 104, Govindrajnagar became the first ward to implement the BBMP’s new model of segregated collection & transportation (C&T) of solid waste as wet, dry and sanitary. Covered vehicles with GPS and public…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has announced plans for “garbage factories” at each of the city’s five zones. Once operational, door-to-door collection vehicles will not dump the collected waste outside localities at open dumping stations (from…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ludhiana MC officials have started a campaign to educate its staff and citizens about responsible waste management practices. This has been prompted by indications that the Punjab solid waste management and cleanliness and sanitation…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced that each ward will be ranked based on waste segregation levels. The BBMP Special Commissioner (solid waste management), D Randeep has reportedly directed the officials to do…
Aafrin Kidwai
The tender document for construction of a 250 tonne per day (TPD) solid waste treatment plant (SWTP) at Bainguinim is expected soon, suggest media reports. In June, the government had decided to keep the tender…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Manali Municipal Council has started treating mounds of legacy waste accumulated at the Rangari landfill. With tourism in slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MC is concentrating on the disposal of dumped trash.…
Aafrin Kidwai
Over 130 employees, a majority of whom are class 4 employees, of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have succumbed to COVID-19. A total of 2,588 employees have contracted the virus, of which nearly 1,300 (50.23…
Aafrin Kidwai
The municipal corporation (MC) has issued a warning to officials of A2Z Group, the private company which has been tasked with handling solid waste management in the city, to improve their working. In a meeting…
Aafrin Kidwai
To monitor the disposal of solid waste and address grievances of the residents, the Noida Authority has launched an integrated control room for complaints about garbage collection and disposal. Ms Ritu Maheshwari, CEO, NOIDA, inaugurated the ‘Integrated Control &…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following technical assessments that highlighted how the waste processing plant at Dadumajra was operating at only 10% capacity, the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) is working on a two-pronged strategy to meet the solid waste processing…
Aafrin Kidwai
Facing difficulties in timely collection of municipal solid waste, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has hired a private contractor for door-to-door collection of segregated waste, removal of waste and silt from roadsides, and transportationof processed…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Noida Authority has drawn up a plan to deal with waste generated across 43 residential sectors in the city. Having carried out a survey of the households, the Authority has now begun looking…
Aafrin Kidwai
Upcoming housing projects with a built-up area of at least 200,000sq ft have to mandatorily create space for a waste compactor station on the plot, the Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided. The corporation took the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The NGT has expressed its disapproval at the allegedly complacent attitude of authorities in dealing with waste management in Uttar Pradesh’s Indirapuram, Vasundhara and Vaishali areas. The issue for consideration was non-compliance of Solid Waste Management Rules,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has decided to initiate prosecution proceedings against the Kochi Corporation secretary for the unscientific handling of waste at the Brahmapuram plant. Besides facing legal action, the civic body will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) has dropped its plan to set up a municipal solid waste plant which was proposed more than a decade back but failed to take off. Instead, the civic body has…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued its order to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and the SDM, Mayapuri regarding allegations of failure to manage waste bin (Dhalao) at Mayapuri Industrial Area Phase-II, New…
Aafrin Kidwai
Cement industries have once again refused to take processed waste from the city’s wet waste processing units. As a result, the BBMP has asked the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and the Chief Secretary to…
Aafrin Kidwai
With a 104 percent increase in Covid-19 and associated biomedical waste generated in Mumbai over the past three months, the city’s waste incineration unit has run out of storage space at their one-acre plant in Deonar. Private…
Aafrin Kidwai
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has laid the foundation stone for one of Asia’s largest biomethanation plants at the Devguradia disposal site. To be built at a cost of ₹150cr under PPP mode,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has extended the validity of the generic tariff Rs 7.08 / kWh for waste to energy (WTE) projects in the state. (Read the Order document here). The validity of…
Aafrin Kidwai
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that a tender will be floated within 10 days for the construction of 250 tonne per day (TPD) solid waste treatment plant at Bainguinim. The Rs-200 crore plant…
Aafrin Kidwai
Goa’s Solid Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo, during a visit to the Sonsoddo plant, has proposed a plan for eight small modular garbage treatment plants at the site amidst tonnes of untreated garbage. He assured to…
