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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced plans to set up two large-scale biogas plants running on municipal organic waste. The 500 tpd BioCNG facilities are planned at the Chikkanagamangala and Karnataka Compost Development Corporation…
Aafrin Kidwai
In the previous ten days, Bengaluru civic authorities (BBMP) have clamped down on the sale of single-use plastic in eight zones and seized 1.380.8 kg of plastic. It has collected almost Rs. 5,97,800 in fines.…
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The Bidadi WtE project, which is currently under construction, could by delayed as the financing of the construction is hindered. The project is being jointly developed by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Karnataka Power…
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Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is further developing its plans for a biogas plant at the Mandur landfill in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Back in July 2021, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sought details of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is conducting inspections of stores and manufacturing units in the city to combat the use of single-use plastic (SUPs). The Joint Commissioner of Solid Waste Management, Mr Sarfaraz Khan,…
Aafrin Kidwai
Bengaluru’s Koromangala waste management facility received a visit from the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to India, Mr Ugo Astuto. The EU and German Federal Ministry of the Environment and Nature Conservation and Nuclear…
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The 1,000 tpd Kannahalli WtE project in Bengaluru, Karnataka has started its waste composting stage. Waste to Energy activities will follow shortly, according to the Bangalore Mirror. Satarem Enterprises Private Limited (SEPL) has signed an…
Aafrin Kidwai
The BBMP’s most prominent face in the solid waste management department, Special Commissioner Mr Randeep D has been transferred with immediate effect. He will now be taking charge as Special Commissioner, BBMP – Health. Mr…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) has received permission to begin operations by the end of this month. The BSWML is a new entity, which has been given the certificate for operations by the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to clear tonnes of second-grade compost by distributing it free of cost to local farmers. The BBMP is also distributing first-grade compost to the farmers at Rs…
Aafrin Kidwai
Bengaluru’s New Thippasandara is seeing a strike by the wet waste collectors over non-payment of six months’ worth of dues from the civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Non-payment is a persistent issue in…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is frequently in the news for its various waste management-related initiatives. Be it the controversy over its proposed Waste to Energy (WtE) projects, to a new agency dedicated to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has collected lakhs of rupees in penalties in the past few months through fines from residents violating solid waste management rules. BBMP data shows marshals and health workers collected fines…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has directed marshals to submit a report on the performance of solid waste collection service providers in the wards where work orders have been issued recently. The BBMP has…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come up with a fresh proposal to set up large bio-methanation plants for treating organic solid waste at two different locations in the City. This time, the civic…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka High Court has directed the Bengaluru civic body (BBMP) to submit measures taken to ensure the segregation of biomedical waste generated from homes where Covid-19 patients are in isolation as well as that…
Aafrin Kidwai
Garbage contractors in Bengaluru are demanding that outstanding bills worth Rs 360 crore must be paid immediately by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), or else they will stop garbage collection from November 5. Mr…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) Solid Waste Management Department and The Ugly Indian, a group of anonymous volunteers who work to keep the city clean, are collaborating to identify locations to set up garbage…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has intensified its crackdown measures on solid waste management violations. From June 1- October 27, the civic authority has collected Rs 75 lakh as fines. Sarfaraz Khan, joint commissioner…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Owing to the pandemic, Ayudha Puja and Vijayadashami celebrations have been low-key, leading to reduced festival waste generation as per office of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) cell of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has plans to establish 50 transfer stations where municipal solid waste collected from households can be directly dumped into portable compactors to be transported to waste processing plants. Five…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Bengaluru civic body has deployed a new fleet of dry waste collection vehicles. Gas Authority Of India Limited (GAIL) gave away 18 CNG collection vehicles to the BBMP for the ease of collecting dry…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad has instructed heads of all departments in the civic body not to take up any new projects or float tenders as the model code of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, in association with several non-profit organisations, has deployed a network of rag pickers in three wards, for door-to-door collection of dry waste. In a month’s time, about 38 wards will…
Natasha Kalra
Mr Randeep D, an IAS officer of the 2006 batch, is a Special Commissioner (SWM & AH), and Zonal Commissioner for Mahadevapura, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bengaluru. With a Bachelors’s degree in Electrical Engineering…
Aafrin Kidwai
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing a severe garbage collection problem with no space left to dump waste at the Mittaganahalli quarry landfill. The crisis came to a head on Wednesday when mounds of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to set up biomethanation and composting units in all wards to make them zero wet waste discharge areas. Segregated garbage from households and commercial establishments in each…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) has issued a notification requiring all construction and demolition (C&D) waste generators to pay Rs 134 per metric tonne to dispose of the debris. Non-compliance will invite penal action…
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According to The New Indian Express, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner, Manjunath Prasad, has recently stated that a proposal was sent to the state government for the use of land in Kannalli and…
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According to the source, the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) has signed a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed French company for the realisation of the Mavallipura WtE plant. The MoU is aimed at setting…
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After signing a MoU with French company 3WAYSTE to establish a WtE plant in Chikkanagamangala, Karnataka, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) now plans to pick up the technology for similar plants in the city of…
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As reported earlier, a partnership deal has been signed between Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and a French company for establishing a WtE plant in Chikkanagamangala, Karnataka. Recent information from the Bangalore Mirror has revealed…
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has recently signed a partnership agreement with an unnamed French company to set up a Waste-to-Energy plant. The Waste-to-Energy facility should generate 10 MW of electricity from processing 500…
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Bruhat Bengalaru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has announced that it is planning to float tenders for contractors in managing its 7 WtE plants, currently using only one-third of their total capacity. This was reported by the…
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Civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has issued a request for proposals for the development of three construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling facilities in the outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka. Each plant should have…
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As reported by The Hindu, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), a civic body of the Greater Bangalore metropolitan area, is seeking an insurance company for its landfills and waste processing plants. Background to this is…
