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After having been defunct for several months due to huge piles of RDF and compost, 4 out of 6 waste treatment plants in the Bengaluru area, state of Karnataka, are up and running again, as…
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As was reported by local news source NYOOOZ, the local government of Tiruchi has decided for a company which is to carry out the new RDF project in Tiruchi, state of Tamil Nadu. The planned…
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As reported by The Hindu, two companies have bidden for Expression of Interest (EoI) for the proposed RDF plant in Tiruchi. In a process that is expected to take three weeks, a corporation will scrutinise…
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Although the proposed RDF unit in Secunderabad Cantonment (in the surroundings of Hyderabad, Telangana) got the green light from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and financial assistance was secured, the project had to be set…
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As was reported by Nyoooz, the local government of Tiruchi has decided for a company which is to carry out the new RDF project in Tiruchi, state of Tamil Nadu. The planned RDF facility should…
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Municipal Solid Waste segregation at source is set to be launched in Delhi and Indore on 8 June. Primarily, the waste segregation shall lead to good-quality compost through waste-to-compost plants. Furthermore, segregation also assists in…
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The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has given approval to Indian-based Cerebra Integrated Technologies to start operations at the company’s new e-waste recycling facility in the Narasapura industrial area, Kolar district. At the plant, electronic…
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The combined composting and RDF plant in Nashik is now fully functional again, after defunct machinery had disabled the facility from working properly over several years, the Times of India reports. With some pressure from…
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The City of Tiruchi wants to build an RDF plant as a public-private partnership project, The Hindu reports. The plant should treat the entire solid waste of the garbage dump in Ariyamangalam. It is expected…
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The city corporation of Trichy is considering to produce RDF in the future, as the local landfill in Ariyamangalam is overflowing with waste. The local government needs approval by the state to continue pursuing the…
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The operations at five RDF plants in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka seem to be hold up by the accumulation of massive piles of RDF. According to The Hindu, the facilities at Chikkanagamangala, Doddabidarakallu,…
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A planned RDF-deal between the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and cement factories in Kalabugari has been abandoned due to too heavy transportation cost. The BBMP has come to the decision to bury the 20,000tpy…
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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has announced to restart operations of the currently defunct 400 tpd Nashik waste treatment facility, which includes RDF production and a composting line. Asreported by The Times of India, a…
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Public body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has entered a short-term contract with several unnamed cement factories in the state of Karnataka. As said, the cement producers will treat the RDF that has accumulated at…
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A citizen group in Bengaluru has submitted a petition over 375 pages, in order to convince the government to shut down the mixed waste processing plant in Kudlu. The plant, which is operated by the…
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According to The Times of India, a new waste treatment facility in Nashik, Maharashtra, will reportedly start operations at the end of December. As said, the facility includes an RDF production unit. Project developer is…
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According to an official of Haryana’s Department for Urban Local Bodies, a tender is currently being held for the reopening of the defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant near Guragon. as reported by The Times of…
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According to The Hindu, a fire incident occurred at the Chikkanagamangala waste treatment and RDF facility near Anekal, which is operated by public body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). As said, the fire spread to…
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Company Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) has apparently decided to provide funding for RDF plants and other waste management sites in Hyderabad, Telangana. As stated on webindia123, a respective Memorandum of Understanding was recently signed…
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According to the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC), the solid waste treatment plant in Saligao, Goa, will be fully operational within the next few weeks with close to 100 tons of waste daily. As…
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The EUR 852,032 West Hill Recycling plant at the Industrial Estate area in Kozhikode, Kerala, was closed in October 2015 and now the civic body starts negotiations to restart the facility. This was reported by…
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The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has halted plans to set up an RDF unit in the Secunderbad Cantonment, a military site in the state of Telangana. According to The Times of India, this is due…
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The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB), the administrative body of a military site in the state of Telanga, was reported to be planning to set up an RDF production facility. However, the proposal was said to…
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A fire incident occurred at the Kannahalli RDF facility, owned by public body Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), as reported by The Hindu. As said, a shredder and baling units as well as an RDF…
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The Ministry for Urban Development (MUD) has told the state of Haryana to restart the operations of the Bandwhari waste treatment plant near Guragon, as reported by The Times of India. The facility, which includes…
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According to the unnamed project developer, a RDF plant in Shimla, state of Himachal Pradesh, will be operational again by October 15. Commercial operations are apparently scheduled to restart on December 15, as reported by…
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The Chandigarh RDF facility, previously operated by Jaypee Group (JP), was now taken over by the Mars Group, according to Tribune India. This follows a contract dispute between JP and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC)…
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The Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (Elcita) is planning to set up a 50 tpd MBT facility in Electronics City, an industrial hub near Bengaluru. According to the Economic Times, the project costs are estimated…
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According to The Times of India, the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand has ordered to stop works on a waste management site to be located in Shishambara, near Dehradun. The waste site is planned to include…
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The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) has decided to explore options for ending its current contract with Jaypee Group (JP), which operates a RDF plant in the city. According to The Tribune, the reason for the…
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According to The Hindustan Times, the municipal authorities of Noida and Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, have received clearance by the responsible state-level environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA) to set up a new waste disposal site…
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Mahindra Intertrade, subsidiary of Mahindra Group, has entered into a partnership with MSTC, a domestic and international trading company under the administrative control of the Indian Ministry of Steel, to set up the country’s first…
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According to The Times of India, a committee of Punjab’s legislative assembly has apparently asked the operator of a RDF plant near Ludhiana to increase the capacity of their facility. Specifically, the capacity should jump…
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According to The Times of India, the planned Shishambara waste and RDF plant near Dehradun, Uttarakhand, which was planned to be realised under a public private partnership (PPP) scheme, has finally found a developer. As…
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Adani Ports and Especial Economic Zone Ltd. (APSEZ) has received environmental and coastal regulation zone approvals from a governmental agency to build a ship recycling facility at its port in Mundra, Gijarat. As reported by…
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The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB), the administrative body of the Pune Cantonment military site in India’s state of Maharashtra, is currently evaluating proposals to improve its solid waste disposal system. As stated by The Times…
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As reported by The Indian Express, India’s National Green Tribunal has ordered company Jaypee Group (JP) to resume operations at it’s Chandigarh RDF facility until 27 July. A case was filed by the Chandigarh Municipal…
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According to Business Standard, German company Heraeus, recycler of reforming catalyst, is to open a facility in Udaipur, Rajasthan, to recover precious metals from spent petroleum catalysts. The plant will be operated by Ravindra Heraeus,…
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India’s decision to ban imports of scrap plastics keeps the plastic recycling market in suspense and will most probably lead to significant job losses in the Indian recycling industry as the president for waste plastics…
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Conglomerate company Maersk Group has announced that it will send its first two container ships to the Alang ship breaking site in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, this month. The ships Maersk Wyoming and Maersk Georgia will both…
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After trial operations of the 100 tpd MBT project in Saligao, Goa, started on 1 April, the facility has now been officially commissioned, The Navhind Times reports. It includes an RDF production line, a biogas…
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Steel services company Mahindra Intertrade will partner with state-controlled MSTC Ltd. on building an automobile shredding and recycling plant in India. Mahindra has not disclosed the exact investment costs but it was said that the…
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Lead producing company Gravita India has entered into aluminium recycling at its recycling plant in Phagi, Jaipur. According to company officials, the initial capacity for the treatment of aluminium scrap will amount to an approximate…
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Electronic City Industrial Township Authority (Elcita) is to build a new 100-tons-per-day solid waste management plant capable of processing mixed municipal waste in India. The plant is estimated to cost approximately INR 400 million and…
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The Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC), state of Uttarakhand, is in the process of re-tendering a proposed waste treatment plant, which is planned to include RDF production, a recycling line and a composting unit. The first…
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Almost 8 years after the Shishambara solid waste recycling plant was first proposed, the project might finally be realised. Reason for the delay was a petition by an individual that had stopped implementation of the…
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An MBT plant currently under construction in Saligao, Goa, has been announced to start trial operations on 1 April. The facility was said to have a 100 tpd capacity and to include RDF production, a…
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Company Banyan Nation, based in Hyderabad, has set up a new 300 tpd plastic automated recycling facility. The project was partly financed by USD 0.8 million of growth funds provided by investment firm KKR Global.…
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An RDF scheme in Ahmadebad, Gujarat, faces problems regarding the composition of local waste volumes. As stated by The Times of India, only 700 tpd of the 1,300 tpd of wet mixed waste committed to…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has inaugurated five Fixed Compactor Transfer Stations (FCTS), which are supposed to supply its Okhla WtE plant. In the FCTS, segregated waste material undergoes compression and moisture extraction, preparing…
