Aafrin Kidwai
Following the Centre’s policy announcement to boost the use of bio-fuels earlier this year, funding difficulties for waste-to-energy projects reportedly continue. Banks have maintained a cautious and guarded approach over funding these power projects, especially…
Aafrin Kidwai
Gurugram will soon begin diverting its waste from Bandhwari to Farrukhnagar landfill. Vinay Pratap Singh, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) announced that 1,100 TPD waste produced by the city will be dumped and processed…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has canceled its proposed waste to energy and waste to bio-CNG projects. It will, however, continue with compost, material recovery facility (MRF), and reuse of construction and demolition waste projects.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has begun covering the dump and lifting the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) stacked at Sonsoddo. Over the weekend, seven machines started baling waste, which will be sent to the cement…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following the COVID pandemic and lockdown, the cost of collection and disposal of bio-medical waste (BMW) in Ahmedabad has shot up to Rs 50 per kg from Rs 24 per kg, reports The Times of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The waste processing unit in Padegaon, near Aurangabad, with a capacity to treat 150 TPD of waste has started full-fledged operations. Civil construction work at Padegaon is nearly complete and certain waste processing operations have…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced it will implement bye-laws on solid waste management (SWM), which entail asking home-owners to pay money to hand over garbage to conservancy workers. “The bye-laws on solid waste management have been notified.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a 25-acre sanitary landfill within KINFRA’s new petrochemicals park at Ambalamugal near Kochi. The landfill is intended for the proper disposal of solid…
Aafrin Kidwai
Recykal, a digital technology company focussing on waste management, announced a partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCB) for Project Prithvi, a joint initiative for developing sustainable plastic…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given a poor rating to a large number of local bodies within the state for their solid waste management efforts.…
Aafrin Kidwai
Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri has launched three advisories on the occasion of World Environment Day. The first advisory is on Material Recovery Facilities for Municipal Solid Waste, the second is…
Aafrin Kidwai
A deadline of December 2020 has been fixed for the commercial operation of the waste-to-energy (WtE) power project by the JIFT Urban Infrastructure Limited at Kapuluppada under the limits of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation…
Aafrin Kidwai
Andhra Pradesh has launched an online waste management platform to handle liquid waste, hazardous, and non-hazardous solid waste and air pollutants. The Andhra Pradesh Environment Management Corporation (APEMC), which will handle the platform (which is…
Aafrin Kidwai
It was a lively exchange of ideas on solid waste and waste-water management during an eSummit organized by Smart Cities India Expo 2020 and Green Dream Foundation, on June 4. The first track on Solid…
Aafrin Kidwai
New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth magazine have released their annual publication State of India’s Environment in Figures 2020 which reveals India’s dismal track record with solid waste management. Below…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttar Pradesh government has announced it will promote the setting up of biofuel plants for augmenting the state’s green energy resources. UP Chief Minister Adityanath has instructed officials to revisit the UP Biofuel Policy 2018 for effecting suitable…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has directed UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) and Ecogreen Energy Lucknow Pvt Ltd to come up with a firm agreement for the amended power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 13.5 MW municipal…
Aafrin Kidwai
The country is moving in a direction in which “Clean India” is not far away, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra has said. Addressing a webinar on “COVID 19: Challenges and Opportunities…
Aafrin Kidwai
Data available with IMAGE (Indian Medical Association Goes Eco-friendly) reveals that Covid biomedical waste in Palakkad waste treatment plant has increased from a mere 698 kg on March 19 to 4,715kg on May 31. In…
Aafrin Kidwai
State-owned power giant NTPC on Monday said it has incorporated a joint venture firm NTPC EDMC Waste Solutions for developing and operating waste to energy project. “The NTPC Ltd has incorporated a Joint Venture Company with East Delhi Municipal…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Kerala government has exempted barcoded plastic bags used for collecting biomedical waste from the plastic ban imposed in the state from Jan 1, 2020. The Times of India reports that the order issued by…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an extended lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, waste collection in various streams considered ‘non-essential’ has taken a hit. Only Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and Biomedical Waste (BMW) are being collected and treated by…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has actively been involved in improving the solid waste management system in Panaji since January 2019. It has been collaborating with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH…
Aafrin Kidwai
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced waste management authorities to re-think their strategy. In order to facilitate the process, the UN-HABITAT has released a report titled ‘Strategy Guidance: Solid Waste Management Response to COVID-19’. While you…
Aafrin Kidwai
Chandigarh’s lone construction and demolition (C&D) waste treatment plant has resumed operations in the Industrial Area Phase I on a single work-shift basis. However, there is no fresh material to recycle since all construction is…
Aafrin Kidwai
Waste clearance in Kolkata is severely impacted following Cyclone Amphan last Wednesday. Huge trees felled by the cyclone blocked a lot of roads in the city making it impossible for vehicles to pass by. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in coordination with Telangana State Pollution Control Board is planning to install one more dust bin in addition to the wet and dry waste bins. The additional bin is…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) will incur expenses for waste collection in Faridabad, where the lockdown has further hit cash-strapped local civic body’s revenues. The Hindustan Times reports that the Faridabad civic body was…
Aafrin Kidwai
Last week saw yet another insightful webinar moderated by Ashish Sachdeva of the Green Dream Foundation, in partnership with Smart Cities India 2020 Expo on the topic ‘Decentralized Waste Management During COVID-19’. Inadequate and inefficient…
Aafrin Kidwai
Disposable masks are quickly piling up across cities, posing a major challenge for waste management authorities. These items are not recycled since they are considered hazardous and are being stacked at dry waste collection centres…
Aafrin Kidwai
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has reported five deaths of its permanent staff, all of whom are women and Class-IV employees who provide essential services like cleaning hospitals and picking up garbage from city streets. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has decided to challenge the declaration of star-rating of the Swachh Bharat Mission. Vizag’s rating dropped to a one-star from the last year’s two star. The scoring mechanism is…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Delhi’s Chief Secretary to hold a meeting within two weeks with all the authorities concerned to ensure proper dumping of construction and debris (C&D) waste in the national…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Productivity Council (NPC) has released its assessment of plastic pollution by NPC in 4 cities – Prayagraj (Allahabad), Agra, Haridwar and Mumbai. As per the NPCs data collated from 46 centres in Mumbai…
Aafrin Kidwai
Cities across the country are reporting how the disposal of routine solid waste mixed with COVID-19 waste such as personal protection equipment (PPE), gloves and masks from quarantine centres, has put a massive strain on their…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched a revised protocol for star rating of cities for handling municipal solid waste. “The new protocol will consider ward-wise geo-mapping, monitoring of SWM value chain…
Aafrin Kidwai
Belgian Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat in India for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The first…
Aafrin Kidwai
Mumbai has got a zero star rating in the Swachh Survey 2020 results announced on Tuesday. By contrast, Navi Mumbai was awarded a “five-star garbage-free city” rating, the only one in the state to get…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started collecting Covid infected bio-waste across the city. So far, over 2,588 kg of waste has been collected from all the quarantine centres in Bengaluru. The collected waste is…
Aafrin Kidwai
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has set up a three-member team for door-to-door collection of biomedical waste from homes of coronavirus affected patient and its disposal in a scientific manner. A senior municipal official…
Aafrin Kidwai
The 55-day lockdown has reduced hundreds of tonnes of garbage generation in temple city, Tirupati. All the hotels, restaurants and fast food centres were shut for the last two months and solid waste generation has…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has finally got the possession of the 3-acre land for setting up a biomedical waste-treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The land is located towards the entrance side of the Brahmapuram waste-treatment…
Aafrin Kidwai
Ever since the nationwide lockdown began, Nagpur has reported that biomedical waste from the city’s hospitals and clinics has reduced drastically. In March, the private firm engaged in collecting biomedical waste from 1,800 city establishments…
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All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen more and more people admitted to hospital, where the high infection rate of the virus makes use of personal protection equipment (PPE) vital for healthcare workers.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bombay high court (HC) has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) authorities to give details of the companies and prices at which the civic body had purchased personal protective equipment (PPE) kits such…
Aafrin Kidwai
Large amounts of disposable masks, gloves and other medical waste have been making their way to regular garbage piles across cities, posing a major challenge for civic authorities in charge of its collection and disposal.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Goa Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) has extended its deadline for receiving suggestions and objections to the draft model Goa Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) By-laws, 2020. On April 28, the DMA had…
Aafrin Kidwai
With the extended lockdown halting the movement of non-biodegradable waste from Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) of local bodies Kerala, the local self-government department is working out solutions for treatment and disposal of rejects of non-biodegradable…
Aafrin Kidwai
Post the COVID-19 lockdown, cities across India have been generating significantly lesser quantities of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is the steep rise in the quantity of hazardous…
Aafrin Kidwai
As part of the UN-HABITAT’s Waste Wise Cities Campaign, Indore has been selected as a supporter city to assist one of the cities of Ethiopia in implementing a solid waste management system. Indore Municipal Corporation…
