Aafrin Kidwai
The Nashik Municipal Corporation has said that daily garbage collection in the city has increased by 20% during 2020-21 due to the Covid pandemic. NMC officials said they would collect around 502 tonnes of garbage…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced it will implement the SWM Rules 2016 strictly once again. Rules were relaxed since March owing to a sharp rises in cases during the second wave of the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Central Pollution Control Board has filed its compliance report to the National Green Tribunal on scientific disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) during the COVID pandemic. Some of the highlights of the report, titled Scientific…
Aafrin Kidwai
With a significant increase in fresh Covid cases, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) is planning to set up a bio-medical waste disposal facility solely for such waste generated by households, mostly of patients in…
Aafrin Kidwai
West Bengal stares at a Covid-19 biomedical waste crisis as the six treatment and disposal facilities have almost reached their threshold capacity following a surge in COVID-19 cases across the state. The two agencies that…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Supreme Court has pulled up concerned authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR) for the dumping of biomedical waste (BMW). It also noted that the waste is not being segregated which is very dangerous…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an overwhelming response to its COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheets, the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) has released the Factsheets in Hindi. It is also preparing to release the Factsheets in other local languages. The…
Aafrin Kidwai
Data available with IMAGE (Indian Medical Association Goes Eco-friendly) reveals that Covid biomedical waste in Palakkad waste treatment plant has increased from a mere 698 kg on March 19 to 4,715kg on May 31. In…
