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The toxic solid waste landfill site near the Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) at Khajod has now transformed into lush green lawns spread over 30 hectare land. SDB is coming up on 35 acres land at…
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BMC’s standing committee has cleared a proposal to award the contract for an automatic waste segregation facility on a one-acre plot at Cuffe Parade to Ahmedabad’s Nepra Resource Management. The plot will be leased for free to the contractor…
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The West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the purchase of surplus power from a waste gas-based generating project, located at Chhatna in the Bankura district of West Bengal.…
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Six years after the concept’s approval by the Indian Road Congress (IRC), the city is set to get plastic roads. MidDay reports that the civic body has issued orders to all asphalt plants to provide…
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The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has allowed the Okhla waste-to-energy plant to increase its power generation from 16 MW to 23 MW by amending the environmental clearance the plant had received in…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has found a new way to fight growing plastic pollution: by appointing an agency to segregate plastic from the landfill for recycling. The Times of India reports that MCC appointed…
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The BMC plans to soon commence a waste treatment plant at Ambernath. The solid waste management department is in the process of acquisition of land at Karavale in Ambernath taluka. While the government had given…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation workers’ strike has entered its fourth day. The workers are protesting against the state government’s decision to remove them instead of regularising their jobs, which had been their demand for a…
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Probably for the first time, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) budget mentions a “circular economy” that will benefit not only the civic body and citizens, but the environment. The Times of India reports that the…
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Following the National Green Tribunal’s directive, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is taking all possible measures to clear the landfill site at Dhapa completely by the next two years. The Solid Waste Management (SWM) department…
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An 11 MW Waste-to-Energy plant being built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) at Pirana will be operational by the end of the year. The AMC has entered power purchase agreements with two companies that…
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The Noida authority has identified a permanent landfill site in Dostpur Mangraui village, facing sectors 162 and 164 between the Yamuna checkdam and the DFCC corridor that is under construction. The project proposal has been…
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As part of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the government will allocate Rs 12,300 crore for the Swachh Bharat Mission for FY21. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Mission is…
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The Mohali administration has set up its first solid waste management (SWM) project at Jheurheri village in the district. The Times of India reports that under this project, every household will be given a pair…
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A 30-tonne per day (TPD) biogas plant in Kanchanwadi, Aurangabad will be ready by next month while the 150-TPD waste treatment plant in Padegaon will be ready in two months. This was announced by Maharashtra’s…
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The Mangaluru Smart Limited (MSCL) is going to introduce a new barcode system for efficient implementation of solid waste management (SWM) in all the 60 wards of Mangaluru city. ETGovernment.com reports that MSCL has already introduced the system…
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Bengaluru has introduced steep fines for littering public places, not segregating garbage at source and violation of solid waste management (SWM) regulations. Offenders will have to pay Rs 1000 for their first offence and Rs…
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The Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL) has announced that it will set up a waste-to-energy plant in Assam. The facility will be established near the proposed integrated solid waste management facility (ISWMF) of the…
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The Government has issued an order converting the concessional agreement signed between the Kochi Corporation and GJ Eco Power Private Ltd., the company entrusted with the construction of the waste-to-energy plant at Brahmapuram, into a…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has started biomining of the 50-year-old landfill in Sathangadu near Tiruvottriyur in North Chennai. The GCC says it will be wrapped up by early 2022. The New Indian Express reports that…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sought an extension (for the seventeenth time, as per some news reports) on a Bombay High Court deadline to stop dumping of solid waste at the Deonar site. The…
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The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has commissioned the country’s first government-run Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant at Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. This WtE plant, a patented technology called Polycrack, is the first…
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Belgian waste to energy technology firm, Keppel Seghers, has secured contracts worth over €12 million from Abellon Clean Energy Limited in Gujarat for the supply of energy from waste equipment and services. The project will…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has started providing home composting kits to apartment owners, despite opposition from gated community residents against the VMC’s decision to categorise them as Bulk Waste Generators (BWGs). According to the New…
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Kolkata has proposed to introduce biomining for the first time in the city to tackle its Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) problem. The project will be undertaken at the Mollar Bheri dumping ground. A portion of…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has planned to open at least eight plants this year to process around 1,700 tonnes of waste daily. Open dumping has been banned at the Uruli Devachi dumping site but…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is slowly gaining appreciation as it strives to improve the city’s ranking in Swachh Survekshan 2020. The official account of Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), tweeted, “Vizag in Andhra Pradesh…
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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Council has approved a monthly user fee of Rs 800 to be charged from each household for managing waste. Daily collection of waste from households will be resumed in the city and…
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The Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has launched a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) at Bhawania Pokhri, Belupur. The facility has been started in Public Private Partnership mode with Tetra Pak, GIZ and TERI as part of…
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Vijayawada is optimistic about its chances in the Swacch Survekshan 2020 after strict enforcement of a ban on single-use plastic has started yielding results. The plastic waste generated in the city has now come down…
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The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) is amending its building rules to regulate the disposal of demolition waste. The Telegraph reports that home owners will have to take the CMC’s permission before demolishing houses and notify…
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A disagreement between two opposing political parties threatens to delay the proposed 150 TPD waste management plant at Harsul, Aurangabad. At a standing committee meeting held at the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Shiv Sena members…
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A major fire at the organic waste management facility in Panaji on Monday has caused severe damage to the facility. Estimated losses of over Rs 50 lakh include damages to machines worth Rs 24 lakh,…
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In order to control garbage dumping in open spaces, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is planning to put a check on bulk waste generators by making it compulsory for them to convert their waste into compost.…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has fined the JP Nagar branch of Manipal Hospitals Rs 1 lakh for violating waste management rules. The News Minute reports that the hospital staff was found handing over…
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Uttar Pradesh’s first construction and demolition (C&D) waste management plant is finally functional in Noida’s Sector 80. The Times of India reports that the main machinery for the plant is yet to be imported while…
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The Kuberpur landfill in Agra will start operations today. The plant, developed with an investment of Rs 11.27 crore, has the capacity to convert 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) of waste into compost. According…
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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing a severe garbage collection problem with no space left to dump waste at the Mittaganahalli quarry landfill. The crisis came to a head on Wednesday when mounds of…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to set up biomethanation and composting units in all wards to make them zero wet waste discharge areas. Segregated garbage from households and commercial establishments in each…
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the government plans to construct centralized Waste to Energy (WtE) plants in six districts of the state. The projects will be undertaken in Kollam, Thrissur, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram,…
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The Punjab government has decided to build a 7MW waste to energy plant at Simgauli in Mohali district. The plant, spread over an area of 50 acres, will be designed to generate electricity of 600…
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Coonoor’s Ottupattarai waste management park is successfully managing the town’s plastic waste. Over 8,000 kg plastic waste from Ottupattarai was transported to Hyderabad for tertiary recycling. Unusable plastics will be broken into oil, gas and…
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The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) faces a penalty of Rs 14.4 crore if it fails to revive the Shivri solid waste treatment plant within two weeks. The Times of India reports that a show cause…
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A new waste segregation centre has been inaugurated in Bandurakh, Jammu. State Times reports that the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), which presently implements door-to-door garbage collection in 53 wards, has launched a pilot project to…
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In 2019, Srinagar generated nearly 5000 metric tons of solid waste of which 70 per cent remained unsegregated while 30 percent was fully segregated via mechanical segregator. Rising Kashmir quotes Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Commissioner,…
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The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has revised its guidelines for buffer zones around garbage disposal facilities. The guidelines make it mandatory for maintaining a buffer zone around any residential, schools, religious places, cemetery…
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The seven-layer capping at Jawaharnagar dump yard, one of the biggest initiatives in the country in municipal solid waste management, has been completed, reports Telangana Today. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) had taken up…
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The Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) has built a bio-gas generation plant in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode with Mahindra & Mahindra in Thukivakam. At the plant, waste is being converted to methane-rich biogas and…
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Noida civic authorities have fined four housing societies in sector 75 of Noida for violating Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules 2016. The authority has generated Rs 4.5 lakhs as fine from these complexes, reports Millennium…
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City authorities across India are gearing up for the Swachh Survekshan survey to be held from January 04 to January 31. Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities and…
