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The Brahmapuram waste-to-energy plant has suffered yet another setback. The Local Self Government Department has asked the Kochi Corporation to terminate the Concession Agreement executed with GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd, the company entrusted with…
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It is applicable to units that will become commercially operational between 2020-21 and 2023-24 With a view to encouraging generation of power from solid waste in cities in the State, particularly in Hyderabad, Telangana State…
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The Chennai Corporation has started incineration of waste collected from residences of persons infected with COVID-19. Waste from houses where residents are quarantined is also being incinerated. Earlier, the waste from ‘infected’ homes was disposed…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has urged various State Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees to put serious effort in mitigating possible risk of unscientific disposal of bio-medical generated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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The amount of solid waste generated in Chennai has reduced from over 5,000 tonnes to under 3,700 tonnes during the COVID-19 lockdown period. This translates to a nearly 28 per cent drop, as per data…
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Biomedical waste generation has risen exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic was reported in India. As masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) kits need to be disposed each time after hospital staff attend to a coronavirus…
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Household waste collection in Thiruvananthapuram has stopped as material recovery facilities in 550 panchayats have reached full capacity. The New Indian Express reports that around 4 to 5 tonnes of dry waste are accumulated in…
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There has been a 193.9 per cent increase in the amount of biomedical waste in the past one week, according to the Regional Office of Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board. The Free Press Journal reports…
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THE Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has urged local authorities to strictly implement guidelines for collection, transportation and disposal of suspected COVID-19 waste and solid waste from quarantined homes and containment areas. The Indian Express reports that…
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Door-to-door garbage collection has stopped in many parts of the city, affecting around one lakh households as a section of sanitary workers of Eco-Green, the company hired for the job, has stopped reporting for duty…
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Almost half the Covid-19 waste generated from quarantine centres, containment zones and self-isolation centres in the city is disposed of unsafely, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) solid waste management department. According to…
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As authorities across the country are battling to deal with Covid-19, the bio-medical waste being generated is also causing major issues. Kerala has treated 21,401kg of Bio-Medical Waste (BMW) generated from hospitals tending to Covid…
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Find out how two leading waste management companies are managing their operations during the pandemic. Soon after cases of COVID-19 emerged in India, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released guidelines for handling, treatment and safe disposal…
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While most cities are reporting cleaner roads and reduced waste generation, there are some other cities that are still grappling to manage its waste during the lockdown period. Garbage continues to accumulate along South Goa’s…
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Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials report that waste generation in the city has decreased by around 53 per cent and dropped by 700 metric tonnes per day. Patna Mayor Sita Sahu told The Times of…
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Waste management company Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd. has announced a significant investment in Zigma Global Environ Solutions Pvt Ltd (Zigma), one of India’s largest landfill mining companies. Zigma specializes in landfill mining and…
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The reduction of garbage generated in Chennai touched 30% on Sunday, five days into the lockdown, according to Corporation officials. The New Indian Express reports that the Corporation collected 3,245 metric tonnes of waste on…
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After a week of lockdown, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started distributing identification cards to ragpickers, who were not allowed to do their work under the essential services category. The work of collection and segregation…
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The 21-day lockdown announced by the Prime Minister owing to Covid-19 is having an impact on garbage generation across Indian cities. In Mumbai, MidDay reports that after the first day of curfew on Monday, garbage…
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Despite the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) recent guidelines about handling and disposal of household waste generated while quarantining COVID-19 patients, urban local bodies seem ill-prepared. These guidelines make specific mention of biomedical waste generated…
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In a bid to promote Waste-to-Energy in India, the central government recently announced a grant of Rs 478 crore to WtE programmes for the remaining period of financial year 2019-20 (FY20). This includes a Central…
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In its status report on the bioremediation and bio-mining process at three landfills in Delhi, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) of several lapses. As per the report,…
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The Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB) has filed its report with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on a waste disposal dump yard set up on the bank of the Khoh river in Ratanpur village…
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Despite informing the National Green Tribunal that it would stop dumping fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill site from March 15, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) continues to dump waste there. Reason: It does…
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Garbage collection in Nagpur has reduced by 96-160 metric tonne (MT) per day in the last four months. This is the time that the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) replaced 11-year-old operator Kanak Resources Management Limited…
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The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has commissioned an incinerator plant for solid waste management at Kamakhya Coaching Depot. Energy will be produced in the incinerator plant from the waste collected from railway colonies and stations…
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A district court has stayed the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation’s recent notice to the Japyee group to terminate its garbage-processing plant contract and seek the unit’s possession. On December 30, 2005, the civic body had signed…
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In the backdrop of confirmed Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases in Pune, the Pune Municipal Corporation and city residents are at loggerheads regarding garbage disposal. The Hindustan Times reports that since the last 10 days, residents of…
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A Parliamentary Committee has asked for urgent steps to tackle municipal waste at the Ghazipur landfill in East Delhi and recommended converting the site into a park. Newsclick.in reports that the Standing Committee on Urban…
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The streets of Coimbatore could soon start piling up with garbage as more than 5,000 sanitary workers are on strike against the corporation for failing to provide them first preference while recruiting people for the…
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With the local municipal corporation (MC) continuing to dump the city’s daily garbage on the vacant land in Phase 8B, Industrial Area, the Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the MC commissioner to be present in…
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The Karnataka High Court has directed the State government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to come out with a road map for scientific disposal of construction and demolition waste as the 2016 Solid Waste…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) to clear civic waste dumped in an undesignated landfill in Indirapuram’s Shakti Khand area. The Tribunal gave 30 days to the civic body…
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From March 15, the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad will no longer dump their fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill. Instead, they will process it at alternative sites in Basai (Gurugram) and Sihi…
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The government has given its nod for a grant of Rs 478 crore to the waste-to-energy (WTE) programme for the remaining period of the financial year 2019-20. This includes a Central Financial Assistance (CFA) of Rs 400 crore…
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A proposal to create a 30-acre dumpsite in Faridabad’s Pali Mohbtabad village to divert fresh waste away from the Bandhwari landfill, has been scrapped by the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad. The Hindustan Times…
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The West Bengal Municipal Affairs department has directed all municipalities in the state to devise means of waste processing facility (WPF) through which wet and dry waste can be processed separately. The WPF system will…
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The State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on solid waste management has said that the use of biodegradable and recyclable non-biodegradable waste at the proposed waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram may not be viable. The Hindu reports…
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Seven years after the introduction of Swachcha Mumbai Prabodhan Abhiyan, Mumbai’s civic authorities have finally decided to evaluate the garbage collection system in slum areas. MidDay reports that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will take…
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) – Government of India, has uploaded a draft notification on its website of the ‘Battery Waste Management Rules, 2020’. The new draft notification is an enhancement and strictly…
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The National Green Tribunal has found that machinery at a solid waste management (SWM) plant in Dadumajra is generating a high amount of dioxins into the environment, beyond permissible limits. A monitoring committee appointed by…
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The Mohali government has handed over 40 acres out of the total 50 acres allotted for a waste-to-energy plant in Samgoli village of Dera Bassi to the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC). The Hindustan Times reports…
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Chennai’s first-ever dry-waste incineration plant at Manali in North Chennai is ready to run at full capacity. The plant will process 10 tonnes of dry waste in 20 hours each day. Over the last few…
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Biomining has begun at the dump yard in Ariyamangalam in Trichy. However, at present, only 800 MT of waste will be processed by the biomining plant. The quantity will be increased to 1,400 MT when…
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Himachal Pradesh has set up two waste management plants across the state. One of them is of 1.75 MW with an outlay of Rs 42 crore in Shimla, while another is of 1 MW in…
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Over six years after disposal of the ‘legacy’ waste of 4 lakh tonne solid waste at landfill site Nakravadi was halted, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has resumed work. The disposal of municipal solid waste…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation is making efforts to mechanise its core activities through the purchase of equipment for garbage collection. Proposals worth Rs 200 crore are in the pipeline to procure mini amphibians which clean…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has started the process of setting up an integrated waste-processing facility at the 42-acre Ghonda Gujran site. A waste-to-energy plant is expected to come up at Ghonda Gujran, followed by…
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NTPC, India’s largest power producer, has successfully implemented a technology to convert Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into high Gross Caloric Value (GCV) fuel that can be co-fired in conventional boilers at its Dadri plant in…
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A new waste management plant set up by the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) in the Hadapsar industrial area is expected to become operational by the first week of March. The new facility will process 100…
