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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), Tamil Nadu, has approved a project to build a WtE plant under a PPP model. The plant is to process wet waste and RDF generated in processing plants in Kodungaiyur…
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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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Two years after they were built, the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation issued tenders to run 22 micro composting centers (MCC) with the assistance of commercial partners. A competent agency will be picked to administer and maintain…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has launched a special project to source segregate organic waste and produce compost from wet waste using an eco-friendly aerobic composting technology. The West Zone authorities launched Project S.O.R.T.…
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Plans have emerged for an MSW management also producing energy in Kurbathang, in Kargil District, Union Territory of Ladakh. The facility should produce energy, as well as provide recycling and composting. As further stated in…
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The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved a case of recovery from Ecoman Enviro Solutions Pvt Limited after its ten thermal composting plants failed to function in the last ten years.…
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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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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has revealed its earnings from composting in the last three months: Rs 1.59 lakh. The income was generated through the sale of compost generated at the Bhandewadi dumping yard. In…
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The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has announced strict action against bulk waste generators who fail to manage their wet waste on-site. The MCC has declared a three-month deadline for all bulk generators to start processing…
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The Maharashtra government has approved the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) plan to develop composting plants, material recovery facilities (MRF), and construction and demolition (C&D) projects. This marks a shift from the NMC’s earlier focus on…
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`Mo Khata’ or ‘My Compost’ generated from waste and sold at various designated outlets across Odisha’s urban areas is generating an encouraging response. As many as 110 of the 114 urban local bodies (ULBs) in…
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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to focus on home composting in big residential housing societies and is planning to rope in non-government organisations (NGOs) for helping the housing societies in carrying out this…
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The Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has undertaken the work of clearing the debris off the Adharwadi dumping ground and levelling it after which the work of development of a garden will begin. KDMC…
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The Karnataka government will soon set up waste treatment plants at Kesare and Rayanakere on the outskirts of Mysuru. The Mysuru City Corporation commissioner Gurudatta Hegde said the government has sanctioned Rs 41 crore to…
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The Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) has started work on a plan to develop a mega-unit with a capacity of 300 metric tonnes per day (TPD) for processing the biodegradable waste to compost. It will be…
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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has proposed to replace the Nagpur WtE project with a bio-CGN and composting plant. According to The Times of India, NMC has submitted the proposal to the State Government. In…
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The urban bodies in the federal state of Madhya Pradesh have been divided into 26 clusters for solid waste management. Amongst others, plans have been proposed for setting up 20 composting plants across the state.…
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The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has approved power purchase agreements (PPA) for four paddy straw-fuelled biomass projects with a total capacity of 49.8 MW, as Mercom India reported. The PPAs were signed by the…
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As reported by The Times of India, the Agra Municipal Corporation is currently building a composting plant in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The source does not comment on the size of the composting facility. The plant…
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The governing civic body of Mumbai, Maharashtra, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), intends to build WtE plants at its waste management centres in the districts of Bandra, Kurla and Borivli, as reported by the Hindustan…
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In a visit by the Municipal Commissioner to the Chandigarh garbage processing plant, it was discovered that RDF produced from garbage in the plant is just lying fallow. The visit was aimed to assess the…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a WtE plant in Bandhwari in the State of Haryana, the Hindustan Times reports. According…
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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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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…
