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The Supreme Court has pulled up concerned authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR) for the dumping of biomedical waste (BMW). It also noted that the waste is not being segregated which is very dangerous…
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The Supreme Court has directed the Railway Department as well as the municipal corporations to take appropriate action against the piling of waste along railway tracks in Delhi and submit an action plan. The apex…
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With 102 of its staff members succumbing to Covid-19, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is perhaps the worst affected among government agencies battling the pandemic in the country. Till July 11, a total of 2,198 BMC workers had…
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The latest guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) provide specifications on segregation of general solid waste and biomedical waste from quarantine centers/home-care/healthcare facilities treating COVID-19 patients. Recommendations are also provided on the…
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The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (the Alliance) has announced a strategic partnership with UN-Habitat to implement solutions toward a circular economy, creating business and livelihood opportunities while enhancing resource recovery. The new partnership, which…
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Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by…
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At least ten companies have evinced interest in the Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant. A meeting was organised by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) through video conferencing late last week in view of the COVID-19…
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As India struggles to establish a comprehensive biofuel policy, IFAT India hosted some of the most prominent names in the sector to share their experiences and expert opinions in a webinar titled “Biofuels: An essential…
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On Saturday, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) welcomed its new Commissioner – Manjunath Prasad. Mr Prasad was the commissioner of BBMP for three years before BH Anil Kumar’s appointment. He returns to the position amid…
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The Uttarakhand government has released Rs 9.24 crore for solid waste management programmes in different parts of the state. The amount will reportedly be used by the urban local bodies for establishing or further improving…
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Out of about 1,47,613 metric tonnes of solid waste generated daily across the States, 89,545 metric tonne (or 61 per cent) is processed while the remaining waste is dumped in the open. Many municipal bodies…
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Assam’s lone CBWTF in the Panikhaiti area is proving insufficient in pandemic times. The quantity of biomedical waste generated by city hospitals has increased considerably during the pandemic, compelling the government to ink a fresh…
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The recently released Global E-waste Monitor estimated that the world generated a phenomenal 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste or an average of 7.3 kilogram per capita last year. The total e-waste generation has increased…
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Thirty common facilities have been set up for the treatment and scientific disposal of Covid-19 bio-medical waste generated across the state, as per the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). In an affidavit filed in the…
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Following an overwhelming response to its COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheets, the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) has released the Factsheets in Hindi. It is also preparing to release the Factsheets in other local languages. The…
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Following reports of dumping of municipal solid waste in the Wular Lake, North Kashmir the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stepped in. It has sought a factual and action-taken report from the Member Secretary, State…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) to initiate prosecution and recover compensation from the Kochi corporation for noncompliance of directives issued by the tribunal on the solid…
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This was an event worth attending. Focussed on the challenges and way forward in COVID-19 waste management, the hour-long online panel discussion organized by the Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CECCSD), Impact…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has decided to scrap its planned waste treatment plant that was supposed to come up at a landfill on the outskirts of Farrukhnagar. The move comes as a result…
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Goa Waste management minister Michael Lobo has said the government has not shelved the Bainguinim waste treatment plant project. It has been put on hold as there is a financial crunch. Once funds are available,…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Maharashtra authorities to come up with an action plan to reduce waste that is affecting mangrove forests and coastal wetlands along Mumbai. The state has been asked to…
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The tender for bio-mining of garbage at Bhandewadi dumping yard is all set to be scrapped. The board of directors (BoD) of Smart City Project’s special purpose vehicle — Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development…
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The Municipal Corporation of Amritsar (MC) has started the process of bioremediation of garbage at Bhagtanwala dump again. Recently, the Amritsar MSW Company Limited started the functioning of two machines for garbage bioremediation under the…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and state pollution control boards to ensure that no permit is given to any new industry which generates hazardous effluents till facilities for disposal of…
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The construction of a waste management facility by the Noida Authority adjacent to ‘Kalibari’ in Sector 26 has become a point of contention between the temple’s committee and the Authority. The waste management facility has…
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Pune’s bio-medical waste (BMW) is being sent to Mumbai for incineration ever since the city’s sole BMW incinerator broke down last month. Its repairs, the plant operator said, are set to take another 15 days.…
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Following directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to develop standardized technologies to assist local bodies to comply with the Solid Waste Management rules 2016, the Niti Aayog has informed the green panel that it…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation has doubled the cost for the collection and safe disposal of Covid-19-linked biomedical waste to Rs100/kg as against Rs47/kg for the biomedical waste of non-Covid patients. “After Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, and…
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The Karnataka government will soon set up waste treatment plants at Kesare and Rayanakere on the outskirts of Mysuru. The Mysuru City Corporation commissioner Gurudatta Hegde said the government has sanctioned Rs 41 crore to…
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The Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) has identified 17.81 acres of land for establishing a garbage processing or waste to energy plant, under phase II of a Rs 274 crore project. The Telegraph Online reports that…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched the toolkit for Swachh Survekshan 2021, the sixth edition of the annual cleanliness survey for urban India conducted by MoHUA. Minister of State (Independent Charge)…
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The UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report has found that the world dumped a record 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste last year, up 21 per cent in just five years. The new report also predicts…
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The Goa Cabinet has approved the enhancement of treatment capacity of Solid Waste Management Facility (SWMF) at Saligao to 250 TPD, a 20 per cent increase, at an approved project cost of Rs 103.87 crores.…
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Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), NTPC and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of waste-to-energy facilities at SDMC’s landfill site in Okhla. As per the…
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Residents groups in Kalyaninagar area of Pune have set up a Resource Recycling Centre (RRC) with the help of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) at the civic playground located in the area. The centre will segregate…
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EverSource Capital looks all set to take over IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services Limited (IEISL) and its subsidiaries. EverSource Capital manages Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF), established with anchor investment from India’s National Investment and…
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With biomedical waste (BMW) generated by the city rising by 100% in three months, the BMC is scrambling to upgrade the disposal facility at Deonar dumping ground. From 11,344 kg of bio-medical waste generated on…
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The Central Railway’s (CR) cleaning department has revealed that Mumbaikars dumped over 2000 truckloads additional garbage on local train tracks compared to the corresponding period last year. Between March 23 to June 23 this year,…
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The Kerala government has announced a nine-month time-frame to bidders interested in bio-mining about one lakh cubic metre of legacy waste lying at Brahmapuram. The tender document issued by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation…
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The ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) has upgraded the rating for Pune, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Vadodara, Ahmednagar, Ballarpur and Gwalior from one-star to three-stars in a central government’s ranking for garbage-free cities (GFC). The…
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PTC India Financial Services (PFS) has announced that its board of directors has cleared a plan to disburse loans of Rs 485 crore to borrowers for solid waste management, among other projects. The decision was…
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate has issued its much-awaited Guideline Document on Uniform Framework for Extended Producers Responsibility under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. As per the document, the “primary responsibility for collection…
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The Solid Waste Management Department of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has proposed bioremediation of about four lakh metric tonnes (MT) of legacy waste, at the open landfill in Makarpura, at a cost of Rs…
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Chhattisgarh’s largest solid waste management plant was launched earlier today in the state capital, Raipur. With a capacity of 700 tons of waste per day, the treatment plant has been set up in Sakri, a…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has announced it will extend it’s Waste to Energy program beyond March 31, 2020. The program will continue without any changes in its scope, nature or coverage. In…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has sent a letter to Kochi corporation authorities asking them to lease out around 22 acres of land at Brahmapuram for setting up a Waste to Energy (WtE)…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has drawn up a zone-wise schedule for the collection of bio-medical waste by its appointed agency, Biotic. Henceforth, the agency’s workers will collect waste from the patient’s homes on designated…
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Jaypee Group has moved court against the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation’s (MC) takeover of the Dadumajra garbage processing plant, and sought restoration of the possession. Taking note of the plea, the HC has put the civic…
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Noida’s much-hyped waste segregation project launched last July has failed to make much headway, partly due to the Covid-19 outbreak – but also due to its own efficiencies. Almost a year ago, when the project…
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At a webinar organized by the Smart Cities India 2020 Expo and Green Dream Foundation on June 16, Mr. V.K. Jindal, Joint Secretary & Mission Director – Swachh Bharat Mission elaborated on the measures being taken to…
