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Indore AD plant at full operational capacity

Indore AD plant at full operational capacity

Environmental services company EverEnviro Resource Management Pvt. Ltd. has announced that its CBG facility located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has now reached full operational capacity. 550 tpd of organic municipal waste are treated and converted…

Plastic
New plastic recycling facility to start in Indore

New plastic recycling facility to start in Indore

India-based Shakti Plastic Industries is launching a bottle-to-bottle HDPE/PP recycling plant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The plant is supposed to provide sorting, cleaning, shredding, and melting of plastic waste which is to be converted into…

Construction
Indore plans C&D waste recycling plant

Indore plans C&D waste recycling plant

The Indore City Government has announced the set up of a Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste plant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The facility is planned to process 200 tpd of waste. The planned construction was…

News
NSWAI meets in Indore; resolves to strengthen the industry’s voice and collaborative action

NSWAI meets in Indore; resolves to strengthen the industry’s voice and collaborative action

The National Solid Waste Association of India met in Indore on March 17 and 18. The theme of this year’s conference was “Building the Future of Waste Management and Recycling in India.” The conference saw…

News
Indore plays host to SBM team

Indore plays host to SBM team

A 13-person team of administrative officers from the Swachh Bharat Mission visited Indore to learn about the city’s Solid Waste Management system. The team also included representatives from Aligarh, Jhansi, Vrindavan, Saharanpur, Bareilly, Farrukhabad, Kushinagar,…

Interviews
SWI & Theistic organize second virtual roundtable

SWI & Theistic organize second virtual roundtable

The second session of ‘No Time To Waste’, a series of virtual roundtables organized by SolidWasteIndia, in partnership with Theistic Business Consultants, saw top government officials and ULBs in the northern states of Jammu and…

News
Indore is India’s cleanest city, once again

Indore is India’s cleanest city, once again

President Droupadi Murmu felicitated the awardees of the cleanest States and cities at the award ceremony of Azadi@75 Swachh Survekshan 2022, hosted as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 by Ministry of Housing & Urban…

News
PM: Govt to convert  dumpsites into green zones

PM: Govt to convert dumpsites into green zones

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the central government plans to convert dumpsites across the country into green zones within three years. PM Modi made the announcement on Saturday while integrating the “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG)…

News
Tirupati & Indore win Smart Cities Award 2020 for sanitation

Tirupati & Indore win Smart Cities Award 2020 for sanitation

As part of its 6th Anniversary celebrations for Smart Cities Mission, the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) announced the results of the India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) 2020. Tirupati and Indore are winners…

Plastic
Indore civic body signs MoUs with PROs for plastic disposal

Indore civic body signs MoUs with PROs for plastic disposal

The Indore Municipal Corporation has become the first civic body in India to ink a pact with producer responsibility organisations (PROs) authorised by the MP Pollution Board for disposing of plastic waste. Municipal Commissioner Pratibha…

Policy & others
Indore earns Rs 50 lakh through carbon credits for waste projects

Indore earns Rs 50 lakh through carbon credits for waste projects

In what is probably a first-of-its-kind attempt by an Indian city, Indore has sold carbon credits earned for its sustainable projects, including a bio-methanation plant and compost plant, generating revenue worth Rs 50 lakh. MoHUA…

Blog
Why every city should adopt the Indore model of waste management

Why every city should adopt the Indore model of waste management

India is witnessing rapid urbanisation and it must leverage the benefits of agglomeration economies with robust urban planning. However, such mega-urban expansion is always linked with challenges like limited resources and increased pollution. One critical…

Biogas
Indore announces plans for one of Asia’s largest biomethanation plants

Indore announces plans for one of Asia’s largest biomethanation plants

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has laid the foundation stone for one of Asia’s largest biomethanation plants at the Devguradia disposal site. To be built at a cost of ₹150cr under PPP mode,…

News
Indore wins cleanest city award for the fourth time

Indore wins cleanest city award for the fourth time

MoHUA Minister Mr Hardeep Singh Puri announced the winners of Swacch Survekshan 2020 on August 20. Here are the results: Winning cities for Swacch Survekshan (Population more than one lakh): #1 – Indore (Madhya Pradesh),…

Policy & others
BBMP to revert to old waste collection model

BBMP to revert to old waste collection model

Barely six months after announcing that it would adopt the Indore model of waste collection, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to revert to its old system of collecting wet and dry waste…

Policy & others
Swachch Survey 2020: Mumbai gets zero-star rating

Swachch Survey 2020: Mumbai gets zero-star rating

Mumbai has got a zero star rating in the Swachh Survey 2020 results announced on Tuesday. By contrast, Navi Mumbai was awarded a “five-star garbage-free city” rating, the only one in the state to get…

Recycling
Indore sorting plant starts trial operations

Indore sorting plant starts trial operations

As reported by the Times of India, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC)’s automated waste sorting plant in Devguardia has started trial operations 1.5 months after the set deadline. Regular operations are scheduled to begin in mid-October.…

Other
IMC to upgrade sorting plant in Indore

IMC to upgrade sorting plant in Indore

According to The Times of India, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is to build an INR 200 million (EUR 2.48 million) sorting plant at its site in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The source does neither comment…

Biogas
IMC to build biomethane plant in Indore

IMC to build biomethane plant in Indore

Plans provide for a new biomethane facility to be built at a garbage transfer station in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. According to the source, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has decided to build the plant. The investment…

Waste to Energy
Devguradia WtE site faces problems

Devguradia WtE site faces problems

The WtE project in the city of Indore is object of petition. According to The Times of India, the project is accused of missing approvals from the state and local authority level as well as…

New information on WtE plans in Indore

According to new reports by Waste Management World, the planned WtE plant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, should reach treatment and generation capacities of 1,000 tpy and 11.5 MW respectively. Earlier sources had announced a planned…

WtE plant proposed for Indore municipality

Canadian company Auto Thermic Gasification Solution Ltd. has proposed to set up a WtE facility on a private-public partnership basis at the Devguradia trenching ground in the city of Indore, Madhya Pradesh. According to company…