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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has announced that alternative dump sites for Jawaharnagar are being prepared in and around the city. These include Dundigal, Pyaranagar village in Medak’s Jinnaram mandal, and Yacharam in Rangareddy…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to establish two new facilities for the management of wet waste collected from its wards, including a windrow composting plant and three other green garbage processing facilities. The…
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The Kochi city corporation has announced that it will not transport any waste to Brahmapuram for one year, starting from May-end. The decision comes as the corporation plans to complete biomining before the construction of…
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A man in Indore allegedly pointed a gun at a sanitation worker who objected to the non-segregation of waste. The incident was captured on video and went viral on social media, prompting a police probe.…
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The Kochi Corporation has slapped fines worth Rs 54 lakh on waste violators during the last one month. Inspections were conducted at households, public places, and institutions. In addition, public awareness campaigns on following the…
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Last month, SBM-U 2.0 launched the flagship newsletter Swachh Vaarta. This bi-monthly newsletter envisages keeping all citizens updated on the activities and events undertaken by the Swacch Bharat Mission. It aims to showcase the journey of…
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A new study has quantified the environmental impact associated with municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Rajkot city, India, using the life cycle assessment (LCA). The study found that currently, around 0.2 million tonnes of…
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Waste management company Urbaser Sumeet has partnered with the M A Chidambaram Stadium and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) to manage waste during this year’s IPL. Waste will be sorted at source and from designated…
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The Kerala government’s efforts to manage waste at the source are yielding positive results, as both the quantity of biodegradable waste gathered from the city and the amount reaching the Brahmpuram waste disposal site have…
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The state cabinet has approved the modification of reservation on the land at Deonar dumping ground, clearing the way for a proposed waste-to-energy project. Last year in March, the urban development department issued a notification…
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The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in India will levy monthly user charges on households and commercial spaces for waste collection and disposal, in accordance with Solid Waste Management Rules, 2019. The charges will be between Rs…
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The Bhopal civic body has imposed a penalty of Rs 25 lakh on the private agency responsible for waste disposal after a fire broke out at the Adampur Chhawani waste dump site on Saturday. The…
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The Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has urged the Delhi government to set up biogas plants under the public-private partnership (PPP) model at landfill sites in Delhi to deal with the problem of mounting solid waste…
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Waste-to-energy producer SAEL has raised INR 1,325 crore ($177m) by issuing AA-rated bonds to institutional investors such as Tata Cleantech Capital, Kotak Infra Debt, Aseem Infrastructure Finance, and India Infradebt. The bonds, which have a…
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The Tiruchi Corporation has announced plans to construct a materials recovery facility at the Ariyamangalam dump yard to manage 200 metric tonnes of non-biodegradable waste each day efficiently. Sanitary workers have been collecting segregated domestic…
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The International Day of Zero Waste is being observed for the first today on March 30 and jointly facilitated by UNEP and UN-Habitat, aims to raise awareness of the importance of responsible consumption and production practices and urban waste management.…
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‘Swachhotsav – 2023: Rally for Garbage Free Cities’ was organized in New Delhi by MoHUA in collaboration with GIZ, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection; UNEP and UN Habitat,…
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India-based Cerebra Integrated Technologies Limited has signed a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with Hyundai Corporation recently for PV Solar module recycling in India. With this agreement, Hyundai is expected to contribute its expertise in solar…
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticized the poor monitoring and delays in obtaining clearances for a waste-to-energy plant project at the Deonar landfill in Mumbai. Only 10% of the work on the project…
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State-run Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) has announced its strategic investment plan for the year 2050. As further stated in the report, the company wants to invest INR 5,000 billion (EUR 56.06 billion) in RES.…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) plans to establish four waste processing plants to achieve 100% disposal of waste materials from the landfill site and to reduce air pollution. These plants will include a smart material…
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The Waste to Energy project in Daighar, Thane City, Maharashtra, is expected to begin its first phase of operations in two to three months. The second phase is also expected to start in the coming…
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On Sunday evening, a new fire erupted at Kochi’s Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant. Firefighters were able to put out the blaze with the help of eight fire engines. Despite efforts to quickly extinguish the…
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SAEL Industries on Friday said it has signed an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a loan of up to Rs 754 crore to promote agricultural waste-to-energy plants in India. Each year farmers…
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The National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change has approved a project titled “Integrated Scientific Solutions for Improving Legacy Municipal Solid Waste Management in the Indian Himalayan…
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NEPRA will open an integrated waste management facility in Bengaluru’s Electronic City in association with ELCITA-Electronics City Industrial Township Authority Paving a sustainable path for Electronic City with an end-to-end system for the collection and sustainable disposal of waste through a specialized Material Recovery…
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Mahatma Phule Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Ltd (MAHAPREIT), a subsidiary of Mahatma Phule Backward Class Development Corporation, Ministry of Social Justice, Govt. of Maharashtra, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) with Trans Thane Creek Waste…
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The Kerala High Court has appointed a three-member panel to monitor the implementation of a three-tier approach to waste management in Kerala. The Court has also warned that in the first phase, the police will…
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In its Budget announcement, the Delhi government has committed to leveling the city’s three garbage mountains within two years and will loan the civic body ₹850 crore to speed up the process, according to state…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has completed the tendering process for a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Bawana, with a capacity to process 3,000 tonnes of waste per day. This will be the fifth…
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The National Solid Waste Association of India met in Indore on March 17 and 18. The theme of this year’s conference was “Building the Future of Waste Management and Recycling in India.” The conference saw…
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) Solid Waste Management (SWM) department is imposing fines on societies and commercial establishments that do not segregate waste, charging Rs 250 per housing unit. The entire housing society will…
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For the first time, an Indian waste management company, Recykal, has made it to the list of Financial Times’ Top 500 High-Growth Companies Asia Pacific 2023. Hyderabad-based Recykal was ranked number 6 on the list.…
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Gas company GAIL India Limited and the Municipality of Haridwar, Uttarakhand, have plans to develop an AD plant at the site of a landfill in Sarai village. Plans for the plant provide to treat 120…
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The construction of the AD plant at the Jamsher Dairy Complex is facing further delays, as the approval from Chandigarh local authority is still pending, according to the source. Initially, approval was expected for June…
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Trichy corporation has put out a tender to find an agency to manage solid waste management (SWM) in its 65 wards for three years. The chosen agency will use battery-operated vehicles to collect waste door-to-door…
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Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha has shared details of plastic waste generated in the country during the…
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The Kerala High Court has observed that all rules for solid waste management were violated at the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant in Kochi. It has ordered the Kochi Municipal Corporation to produce contract documents and…
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Kia India has launched a plastic waste management program in association with the India Pollution Control Association (IPCA). The goal is to instill a sense of social responsibility among people so that efficient material recovery…
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Waste collection has resumed in Kochi after a massive fire at the Brahmapuram waste management plant caused a halt in operations for almost ten days. However, many areas still have piles of garbage, causing health…
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In Kerala, a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan decided not to transport plastic to the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant and to treat organic waste at the source instead. The Kochi corporation will collect…
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The proposed C&D waste recycling plant in Nashik, Maharashtra, is now scheduled to become operational within 6 months. A corresponding deadline was set by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC). The NMC also identified a site…
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The Secretary of the Kochi Municipal Corporation appeared before the Kerala High Court to inform the court that the fire at the Brahmapuram garbage dump and waste plant would be completely put out soon. The…
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Union Minister Mr Hardeep Singh Puri has launched Swachhotsav, a three-week women-led swachhata campaign, under the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0. The campaign aims to recognize and celebrate the transition from women in sanitation to women-led sanitation. A…
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A new compressed biogas plant is to be built in Sonapur, Assam. The plant should process, among others, MSW and cattle manure and produce 5 tpd of compressed biogas. The construction should be carried out…
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The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has accepted recommendations to convert dry waste into RDF and wet waste into biomethane and compressed natural gas at its proposed 600 tpd integrated waste management facility. Tender to be…
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A helicopter carrying former Karnataka chief minister and senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa faced difficulty in landing due to plastic sheets and waste on the helipad ground on Monday in Kalaburagi. A viral video showed the chopper…
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Waste collected in Kochi has been temporarily suspended as city authorities focus on containing the impact of the fire at the Brahmapuram waste management plant late last week. Waste collection was suspended since under the…
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Tata Motors has unveiled its first registered vehicle scrapping facility in India – Re.Wi.Re or Recycle with Respect in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It has a capacity of scrapping 15,000 vehicles each year. The facility has been…
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Pune-based SWaCH has released a new report profiling waste generation and recovery by waste pickers in the city. Waste from 70% of Pune’s households is collected by the waste pickers of SWaCH, within the framework…
