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The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy of the State of Punjab has proposed plans to develop 100 MWel of biomass power projects. According to the report, the Ministry is seeking Viability Gap Funding of…
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The WtE project in Brahmapuram, Ernakulam district, Kerala, is still under discussion. According to the source, the Kochi Corporation has announced that an all-party meeting on this long-standing project will be held soon. According to…
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Delhi government has recently submitted a status report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT). As per the report, Delhi generated 11,332 tpd of MSW on an average. As further stated, there are currently four WtE…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation plans to privatize solid waste management in Royapuram and Thiru Vi Ka Nagar and is set to call for tenders in March. A consultant has been appointed to study the collection…
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Two companies in Ahmedabad, Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) and Nepra Resource Management Private Limited (NRML), are investing heavily in waste management and recycling in Ahmedabad. ACEL has already invested Rs 500 crore in the…
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Japan-based JFE Engineering Ltd will offer technical assistance for the upcoming waste-to-energy facility in Kozhikode. Sharing the news on his social media, Chief Minister Mr Pinarayi Vijayan said the company has experience building more than…
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The Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), Mr PC Meena, has asked civic body officials to provide daily updates on waste processing on the MCG website. He also said that the capacity of…
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Following the success of the pilot projects in Worli and Khar, the BMC has now begun collecting dry and wet waste separately in each of the city’s 24 administrative wards. Daily wet waste collection will…
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The Greater Chennai Corporation has identified projects for biomining, non-motorized transportation, sewage treatment, urban forestry, solid waste management, and rooftop solar panels in order to begin making money from the trading of carbon credits on…
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In a major effort to reduce waste contamination and promote greener cities, 14 more Madhya Pradesh districts will construct bio-remediation facilities. The projects are estimated to cost roughly Rs 44 crore. “Bio-remediation will be used…
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Delhi civic officials have seized about 7,000 kilograms of single-use plastic (SUP) in the city as part of a 100-day program this month. The maximum amount (1,263 kg) of SUP has been seized from Shahdara…
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Addressing participants at a workshop in Chandigarh, Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Mr Bhupender Yadav commended the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to substantially bring down the paddy farm fire counts during…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has announced that it will build a facility to treat 100 tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D) waste each day. The civic body has issued a tender to select a company…
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The Delhi government has been ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to pay Rs 3,132 crore in environmental compensation for shortcomings in managing solid and liquid waste.The NGT ruling states that the payment, which…
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The construction of Urban Extension Road (UER) II in New Delhi, which the authorities also refer to as the third ring road of the national capital, will require close to 4 lakh metric tonnes (MT)…
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Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed Lok Sabha about the enforcement of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, including a ban on identified single-use plastic (SUP) items,…
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The Gobar Dhan Yojana Committee has reached an agreement about the construction of an AD plant in Ranveerpur, Chhattisgarh. The plant will process 1.59 tpd of manure from local farms. The production capacity will amount…
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The Goa government has announced plans to build two 5 TPD biomethanation plants in the municipal councils of Ponda and Valpoi with a total investment of over Rs 5.5 million. The waste produced in these…
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Finland-based “Clean Tech” will take over waste management in key cities of Uttar Pradesh, including Lucknow. The state government and Clean Tech recently signed an MoU to this effect. The corporation may potentially establish a…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has earmarked Rs 118 crore for the management of solid waste in the upcoming financial year, the highest amount under the capital expenditure segment of the ULB’s budget. Out of the…
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The Kerala local self-government department (LSGD) plans to modernize 53 dumpsites in Kerala, including the one at Brahmapuram. The department has already reclaimed roughly 45 acres of land by clearing 22 dumpsites. According to officials,…
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Antony Waste Handling Cell Limited declared that its wholly owned subsidiary AG Enviro Infra Projects Private Limited has received a contract for Rs 1024 crore for the collection, transportation, processing, and disposal of construction and…
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After a prolonged delay, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) launched the procurement process for an integrated solid waste management project in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. This project will help address the problem of…
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The jacket worn by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament on Wednesday, made of recycled plastic bottles, will be available in major cities of India, within three months. Mr SM Vaidya, Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) informed that the jacket will…
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing 90 projects under its Waste to Energy program. Union Minister of Power Mr. R K Singh informed the Lok Sabha that these projects include 7 biogas…
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The 11th edition of International Plastics Exhibition PLASTINDIA 2023, now the world’s largest plastic exhibition, concluded in Delhi on Sunday. The 5-day conference (Feb 1 to 5) witnessed a footfall of 3.60 lakh visitors. One…
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Union Minister for Civil Aviation and Steel Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia said that Central Government stands firm on its commitment to the material recycling industry. Today the recycling industry contributes almost 10,000 crores to India’s GST…
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The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board has warned the state’s urban bodies and department about the increasing number of landfills polluting the state. More than 190,000 tonnes of garbage is piled up in 15…
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Engineers India Limited to develop Waste to Energy (WTE) and bio-methanation projects in cities with a population of million…
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“Enhanced focus will be provided for scientific management of dry and wet waste,” said Finance Minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing a 150-per cent hike in the outlay of the Swacch Bharat Mission, with an…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting Union Budget 2023-24 in Parliament, has announced that 500 new ‘waste to wealth’ plants under the GOBARDHAN scheme will be established. Of these plants, 200 will be compressed biogas (CBG) plants,…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will purchase 20 baling press machines to process the city’s plastic waste. The machines will be supplied, operated, and maintained by a Maharashtra-based company. The BMC is investing approximately Rs…
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Public consultations have been launched for the planned capacity increase at the Narela-Bawana WtE plant in Delhi. Plans provide to increase the plant’s capacity from 24 MW to 60 MW. At 24 MW, the plant…
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The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board has approved plans by iron manufacturer Vandana Global Limited to develop a biomass power plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The plant should be fuelled with rice husk and have a capacity…
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The company GreenBillions (TGBL) will partner with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to set up a demonstration plant for the conversion of biomass and MSW into hydrogen. The plant will be operated by TGBL’s wholly-owned subsidiary…
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The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) is planning to transfer 44.2 acres of land for a WtE plant in Galand village in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, to Dutch plant developer GC International. The developer urged the GMC…
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From February 1 to March 31, all urban local bodies in Uttar Pradesh have been asked to work on the 3Ps strategy – pray, persuade, penalize – to enforce doorstep segregation of dry and wet…
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The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) issued short-term tenders for waste collection and transportation from the city’s 243 wards, which have 42 lakh households and commercial buildings. BSWML floated the tender for the second…
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The Gurugram Municipal Corporation (MCG) has decided to redevelop 32 designated secondary waste dumping points throughout the city to ensure that only segregated waste is dumped there. According to officials, the civic body will also…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever (HUL) have announced the launch of an Inclusive Circular Economy project, which focuses on the end-to-end management of plastic waste by promoting the segregation…
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The Tamil Nadu government has granted its permission to the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to carry out biomining at the Kodungaiyur dump yard. It is expected to cost Rs 641 crore and construction is expected to begin…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has declined to impose a Rs 750-crore environmental penalty on the Jharkhand government for improper solid and liquid waste management. The tribunal also noted the state government’s commitment to allocating…
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The state’s first integrated plant to process a variety of hazardous wastes has been approved. It will be built in the villages of Kansal and Hendavli in Raigad. The Union environment ministry has given in-principle…
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In Punjab, a dairy farmer has installed a new AD plant that gets fed with manure originating from his 150 cows, according to a news report. The plant produces biogas that gets delivered to local…
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), reportedly plans to set up or revamp five Waste-to-Energy plants across Hyderabad. A 14.5 MW plant currently being constructed in Dundigal is to be commissioned by March 2023. The…
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Ahead of the Union Budget, the Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has asked the government to set up a Rs 1000 crore fund to promote the use of fermented organic manure (FOM) in agriculture. According to…
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Webel, West Bengal’s nodal agency for the development of the electronics and IT industries, is developing a comprehensive plan to manage electronic waste (e-waste) in the state, including the possibility of establishing a waste processing…
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The Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology (Cipet), a leading institute specializing in plastic technology, plans to establish five circular economy or plastic waste management centers as pilot projects in five cities. Four of…
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The Goa Panchayat department has allocated Rs 10.83 crore to the 191 Gram Panchayats for waste management in the last five years. However, most GPs claim that this fund is insufficient and that they must…
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The company M/s Shikhar Commodities has acquired an 8 MW biomass power plant located in the federal state of Chhattisgarh from M/s Vandana Vidyut Limited. The source does not provide the plant’s exact location. According…
