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The National Green Tribunal has fined the Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City) Municipal Corporation for failing to comply with its order to cordon off a dumping site to prevent contamination of East Calcutta Wetlands. The Telegraph…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started work on a plan to develop a mega-unit with a capacity of 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) for processing the biodegradable waste to compost. It will be…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has initiated a trial run of its first bio-methanation plant at Geeta Colony. Spread over 600 sq metres, the plant will consume 5000 kg of wet waste daily to generate…
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Following the National Green Tribunal’s ultimatum to reduce the height of the three landfills in Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalswa, the three respective Delhi municipal corporations are planning to install 33 trommel machines, with a capacity…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started capping work at the Kuberpur landfill site. The landfill site is spread over 42 acres of land and a drone survey estimates that is contains 8.5 lakh metric…
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The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has announced plans to spend almost a quarter of its budget for 2020-21 on garbage segregation, door-to-door collection and scientific disposal of daily as well as legacy waste. Incidentally,…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Gurugram Municipal Corporation to clear 25 lakh tonnes of legacy waste at Bandhwari landfill within six months and warned that failure to do so may result in coercive…
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The Union Government will convene a meeting of environment ministers of all states to discuss the problem of single-use plastic and solid waste management (SWM) – as well as measures to solve it. This was…
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As part of its efforts to promote waste-to-energy (WtE), the Indian government has set up a total capacity of 56.34 MW for power generation from waste in the last three years. So far, 199 WtE…
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Four years after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed an order for setting up a 5 MW waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Srinagar, its installation remains stalled by procedural delays. The plant was to be installed…
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Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has proposed a project that will generate biogas and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from cow dung. In a bid to make the city’s Gaushalas (cow shelters) self-dependant, the Municipal Corporation has sent the…
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Local civic body authorities inspected Mormugao Solid Waste Treatment Plant (MSWTP) at Headland-Sada in order to expedite the process of clearing almost 80 metric tonnes of ‘legacy waste’ which has been lying there for the…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has signed a MoU with UltraTech cement to generate refuse-derived fuel (RDF) at its cement kilns. The transport of dry waste from the VMC’s recycling unit at Ajit Singh Nagar…
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GJ Eco Power Pvt Ltd has started work on the much-delayed waste-to-energy plant in Kochi after receiving the last in a series of building approvals a few days ago. The first phase of the project…
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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to amend its building rules to better manage demolition waste to curb pollution. Earlier, there were no pollution related restrictions and anyone applying for demolition of a building…
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The collection of garbage from homes and streets remains affected after the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) appointed two new operators to replace its earlier contractor, Kanak Resources Management Limited (KRML). The Times of India reported…
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is formulating plans to renovate the biomethanation plant at Ajit Singh Nagar and use it for electricity production using wet waste. A new biomethanation plant will be set up at Jakkampudi. …
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has imposed a Rs 10 lakh bank guarantee on private firm A2Z Waste Management for poor management of solid waste at the Tajpur Road garbage dump. The firm is…
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The Chennai Corporation has approved the revised draft of the Corporation of Chennai Solid Waste Management Bylaws 2019. The bylaws apply to all residents, institutions and commercial waste generators to ensure effective waste management. The…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is launching a special drive to collect construction and demolition (C&D) waste from November 20 to November 29. Hyderabad generates approximately 400 metric tonnes of C&D waste daily, most of…
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A new corporation has been created to take care of the management of hazardous waste from industries in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The AP Environment Management Corporation (APEMC) will collect green taxes from the respective industries…
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The first meeting of a committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the issue of compliance of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 will be held on November 19 in New Delhi.…
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The Goa government is making progress in its plans to remediate around 4.7 lakh cubic metre of existing dump sites at various locations in Goa. The Times of India has reported that the Goa government…
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Over a dozen Material Recovery Facility (MRF) centres will be set up in Greater Noida to manage waste by separating recyclable items from the dump for further use. The Times of India reports that only…
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Tirupati Municipal Corporation is planning to set up three new garbage transfer stations in the temple city. The advanced facilities will be set up at New Balaji Colony and two other locations on the outskirts…
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Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to adopt bioremediation to dispose more than two lakh tonnes of waste which has piled up at its solid waste management unit at Vidyaranyapuram. The MCC has prepared a…
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The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) has found a cost-effective solution to convert their waste to energy – transfer garbage to cement projects which can utilise them as fuel in kilns. An APPCB study…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is looking for an empty quarry site in the southern part of the city to establish a construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant. Currently, there is no proper mechanism to…
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Hindustan Unilever Limited recently laid the foundation stone for the first community biogas plant in Hari Ashray Colony, Haridwar. This project is being piloted to encourage sustainable waste management in the community. With implementing NGO…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation is procuring imported machinery to process construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated in the city. Two recycling units will come up at Perungudi and Kodungaiyar with a combined capacity of 1200…
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The Central government has taken up a pilot project in Solid Waste Management (SWM) in 97 villages across Telangana State with the goal of improving sanitation in the villages. Hansindia.com reports that three villages will…
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The Union Cabinet has given its approval for a Memorandum of Understanding between India and Guinea (West Africa) in the field of Renewable Energy. The objective of the MoU is threefold: To establish the basis…
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The CII, on Thursday, organized the India-Sweden Innovations Accelerator Programme in Hyderabad. A workshop and B2B meeting was held for a Swedish cleantech and energy efficiency delegation. The Accelerator Programme, being supported by Swedish Energy…
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The recently concluded seventh edition of IFAT India 2019 witnessed a 29 per cent increase in visitor numbers as compared to last year, according to information provided by the organizers. Held between October 16 to…
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The Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) is gearing up to call tenders for capping of the Madikonda (Rampur) dumping yard. Madikonda landfill is located about 18 km away from Warangal city and is the only…
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Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Ltd (NSSCDCL) has started the tendering process to appoint contractors for developing garbage transfer stations. They will be given two years to plan, develop, test and commission garbage…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will now be appointing the prominent National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) as consultants to manage waste at the city’s – and country’s – largest dumping ground in Deonar. According…
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The Kashmir State High Court has constituted a three-member committee to oversee the functioning of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and other municipal committees of all districts of Kashmir division with regard to managing and treating…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Karnataka Power Corporation (KPCL) are planning to set up a waste-to-energy plant in Mandur. According to the Bangalore Mirror, the Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has ordered KPCL to…
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The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has issued the draft version for its tariff determination regulation order for renewable projects, including biomass power projects. The Regulation will apply to projects that are commissioned in the…
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The State Government of Goa has announced plans for a C&D waste recycling plant and an RDF plant, both to be developed in PPP mode. The C&D plant is likely to be constructed in North…
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According to The Hindu, following the complete bio-mining of municipal solid waste generated in the past 60 years at the Vairapalayam and Vendipalayam landfills, the civic body is now planning to establish an incinerator machine…
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Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) wants to implement a waste-to-energy facility at the Rampur dumping yard in Warangal, Telangana. The throughput capacity of the planned facility is estimated at 300 t/d. The GWMC plans to…
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As was reported by The Hindu, the groundbreaking ceremony for a paddy straw biogas project in Karnal, Haryana, was held on 18 October. The plant should be completed by 2022 and will produce compressed biogas…
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According to The Times of India, small-scale biomethane plant was inaugurated in the Saibaba Colony in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The project was funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under the capacity building…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Government of Uttar Pradesh and Dutch company GC International have recently signed an agreement towards establishing two Waste-to-Energy plants in Muzaffarnagar and Ghaziabad. GC International will invest INR 20 billion for…
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The 18 MWel plant in Jaitu, Faridkot, Punjab, is ready to generate electricity from paddy straw in this year’s season. According to The Tribune, the plant was built to keep local farmers from burning the…
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The Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan, has announced that USD 118 billion (INR 8,315,49 crore) will be invested in the oil and gas sector by 2024. That includes USD 60…
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A biogas and composting plant is planned to be built on a 1-acre site in Mohishgote, near New Town, Kolkata. As was reported by The Telegraph, the plant will process vegetable and fruit waste collected…
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The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) will organise a business trip on energy efficiency and self-sufficiency from renewable energies for industry customers from 14 to 17 October 2019 in New Delhi. The event is organised…
