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Madhya Pradesh’s second e-waste recycling plant is being launched in Gwalior by Prometheus. The plant has reportedly received approval from the Pollution Control Board for handling hazardous and e-waste. The plant will reportedly manually segregate,…
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IKEA Social Entrepreneurship has partnered with Saahas Zero Waste on a pilot programme to transform, through three waste management micro-entrepreneurs, the informal waste sector in India. The result of the programme will be that informal…
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued draft guidelines for the use of recycled plastics as food packaging. The Draft Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Amendment Regulations 2022 pertain to the…
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Various civic bodies across the country are seeing positive results for their plastic and electronic waste collection drives from households and industrial areas. Now, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has finalised a private contractor…
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Almost 90 international brands, including Coca Cola and PepsiCo, have called for a global pact to combat plastic pollution that includes cuts in plastic production. Kerala-based GreenWorms and Tomra are some of the waste management…
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Attero Recycling, India’s largest electronic waste recycling firm, has said it plans to invest Rs 300 crore in ramping up its lithium-ion battery recycling capacity to 11,000 metric tonnes per annum by October 2022 from its current capacity of 1,000…
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ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division (PSPD) has collaborated with the Invest India to launch the ‘ITC Sustainability Innovation Challenge’, to support innovative start-up ideas on sustainable packaging and smart waste management solutions. ITC PSPD,…
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At least 3.4 million tonnes per annum (TPA) of plastic waste was generated in 2019-20, of which approximately 1.5 million TPA was recycled and 0.16 million TPA co-processed in cement kilns. A portion of unprocessed and…
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Maruti Suzuki Toyotsu India Private Limited (MSTL)’s first government-approved ELV scrapping and recycling unit has been inaugurated in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 10,993 sq m facility has a capacity to scrap and recycle over 24,000…
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Bhubaneshwar is planning to establish 14 Material Recovery Facility (MRF) centres. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has a target of total 41 MCCs and 10 MRFs. Currently, four MRFs are fully functional, civil construction of…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued notices for closure to 1,278 recyclers operating without valid registration under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. Similar notices have been sent to 551 plastic manufacturing units as well. The…
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UK-based Greenback Recycling Technologies Ltd. has agreed on an MoU with Indian chemical recycling technology firm Polycycl. As further reported, the companies will form business partnerships to implement plastic-to-oil projects in India, which will be…
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On the occasion of International E-Waste Day 2021, leading experts and producer responsibility organisations (PROs) are calling on households, businesses and governments to get behind efforts to get more dead or unused plug-in or battery-operated…
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Niti Aayog has suggested that urban local bodies (ULBs) could provide land to set up material recovery facilities (MRFs) to be used by various industries to set up infrastructure for efficient plastic waste management. In its…
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The two MSW treatment and recycling plants in Kesare and Rayanakere, located in Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka, have not made any further progress since late 2020, reports Star of Mysore. According to a the source, the…
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Gujarat-based metallurgy company Hydromet has announced plans for three new lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) recycling plants in India and overseas, as reported by PV Magazine. The combined annual capacity is expected to reach 10,000 tons. A…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation is reportedly exploring the use of inert material, produced during biomining of legacy waste at the Okhla landfill site, in the construction of roads and highways. The usage and durability…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), HDFC Bank and the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) are setting up a material recovery facility (MRF) to manage up to 300 metric tonnes of dry waste in the city every month.…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has launched a thermocol recycling initiative in association with the Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH) collective of waste-pickers and KK Nag Private Limited. Through this, Pune hopes to have…
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Six potential bidders have been identified for developing the Bainguinim WtE plant, according to a senior government official. As reported by the Times of India, the companies are now asked to deliver the request for…
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Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is about to open a 400 tpd legacy waste remediation plant, producing RDF, at the Lakhnawali landfill site in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Trials have started recently and the…
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, which prohibits identified single use plastic items which have low utility and high littering potential by 2022. The…
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The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) plans to involve waste picker organizations for segregation activity at waste unloading sites. The corporation has invited Expression of Interest (EOI) seeking response from registered waste picker organizations…
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Aluminium and copper producer, Hindalco Industries, has announced investments for its sites in Hirakud (Odisha), Silvassa (Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu) and Mundra (Gujarat), as reported by The Times of India. At…
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In Ludhiana, local authorities have started to crackdown on plastic-bag use. 125 kg plastic bags were confiscated by municipal teams during raids at markets in Ludhiana’s Field Ganj, Khud Mohalla, Baba Than Singh Chowk and…
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India generated 10,14,961.2 tonnes of e-waste in 2020, which is a 31.6 per cent increase from 2019, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed the Rajya Sabha earlier this…
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The plastic manufacturers and traders’ association in Ludhiana has announced yet another agitation against the state government’s decision to impose a plastic ban starting August 1. In 2016, the state government had announced a ban…
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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched weekly door-to-door collection of electronic waste (e-waste). The drive is being conducted to avoid the mixing of municipal solid waste with e-waste at the household level. The e-waste…
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Noida-based Lohum Cleantech has announced plans to expand its manufacturing and recycling capacity for lithium ion batteries. While production shall increase from 300 MWh to 1,000 MWh, the recycling capacity is planned to jump from…
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Indian recycling company Gravita India Ltd. wants to enter the electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling market and is currently in discussion with a European technology provider. Gravita India Ltd. is mainly active in lead batteries…
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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has launched an online portal for registration of Producers, Importers & Brand Owners (PIBOs) under the Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2016. As per the rules, PIBOs are “required to…
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Bangkok, Thailand-based chemicals company Indorama Ventures (IVL) has announced to expand its PET manufacturing site in Nagpur, Maharashtra, reports Recycling Today. As further announced by IVL, the expansion is worth USD 82 million and will…
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Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has announced the India Plastic Challenge–Hackathon 2021 to promote innovative solutions to mitigate plastic pollution and develop alternatives to single-use plastics. The Hackathon is open to start-ups /entrepreneurs and students…
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The Delhi government has formed a special task force under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary for taking measures to eliminate single-use plastic. The special task force, which has been constituted on the order of…
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The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is setting up a solid waste management centre spread across a 1,500 – 2,000 square metre area in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and HDFC Bank. At the SWM centre,…
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India has formulated a policy paper to address wastage in the use of electronics and the electrical sector. The paper titled “Circular Economy in Electronics…
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The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued closure directions to 16 units involved in the manufacturing of plastic carry bags. DPCC is running a special drive against plastic waste in industrial areas and imposed…
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The Union environment ministry has proposed to implement a countrywide ban on manufacture, use, sale, import and handling of some of the single-use plastic products by 2022. The ministry has issued a draft notification on…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) solid waste department has decided to organize a monthly collection program at 300 centres for e-waste and plastic waste. Recently, the PMC organized a one-day e-waste and plastic waste collection…
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BBMP has announced it will add 30 new dry waste collection centres (DWCCs) in different wards. While 129 wards have these centres up and running, the civic body plans to introduce this facility in the…
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E-waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams with an annual growth rate of 3-5%. New technology by IIT Delhi’s Chemical Engineering department has been developed as a sustainable solution to tackle the menace of…
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In 2006, Ahmedabad-based Sandeep Patel launched his waste management business. By his own admission, the initial years were tough, but Sandeep persisted. Fifteen years later, Nepra Waste Management Pvt. Ltd. finds itself among India’s largest and most reputed dry…
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The burning of plastic waste is primarily responsible for haze and fog formation in northern India, including the national capital Delhi, according to a study led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras…
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The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued directions for the implementation of E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 after observing that there were huge gaps in the compliance by the State Pollution Control…
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests to finalise the “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) regime for plastic waste within three months saying that steps taken by it were “too slow”.…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has observed that plastic pens are covered under the meaning of “plastic” as provided in Rule 3(o) of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2018 and therefore, they are also covered…
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In one of the first such initiatives in the country, a company under the Kerala government has fixed base prices for variants of recyclable, non-biodegradable waste. The move by the Clean Kerala Company Limited (CKCL),…
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The Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) in Thane district has applied to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), seeking its nod to implement a project to produce fuel from plastic waste. The civic body said the move…
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The Guntur Municipal Corporation’s (GMC) project is running at least 100 of its vehicles including dumpers, tractors, mini compactors, and autos on synthetic fuel produced from plastic waste. The plant started production three months ago…
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India collected just 10 per cent of the electronic waste (e-waste) estimated to have been generated in the country during 2018-19 and 3.5 per cent of e-waste generated in 2017-18, according to a recent report by…
