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As per a new source, the WtE project at Njeliyanparamba in Kozhikode district, Kerala, may be replaced by a natural gas plant. The natural gas facility may be implemented as a pilot project. Reportedly, GAIL…
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The large-scale MSW management project in Kerala has now been launched. According to the source, total investments are suppposed to reach INR 24 billion (EUR 265.7 million). The project includes waste management and disposal facilities…
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The State Cabinet has approved the proposal by oil and gas company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to develop a CBG plant at the Brahmapuram landfill in Kochi, Kerala. Initially, the plant should process 150…
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On 30 April 2023, the grace period of 30 days for the completion of biomining and capping activities at the Njeliyanparamba WtE project in Kozhikode, Kerala, has reportedly ended. The deadline was issued by Kozhikode…
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The Kerala government and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) have agreed, in principle, to set up a plant in Kochi to process waste and produce compressed biogas. The decision was made in a meeting attended…
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The Kochi Corporation has slapped fines worth Rs 54 lakh on waste violators during the last one month. Inspections were conducted at households, public places, and institutions. In addition, public awareness campaigns on following the…
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The Kerala government’s efforts to manage waste at the source are yielding positive results, as both the quantity of biodegradable waste gathered from the city and the amount reaching the Brahmpuram waste disposal site have…
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The Kerala High Court has appointed a three-member panel to monitor the implementation of a three-tier approach to waste management in Kerala. The Court has also warned that in the first phase, the police will…
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The Kerala High Court has observed that all rules for solid waste management were violated at the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant in Kochi. It has ordered the Kochi Municipal Corporation to produce contract documents and…
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The WtE project in Brahmapuram, Ernakulam district, Kerala, is still under discussion. According to the source, the Kochi Corporation has announced that an all-party meeting on this long-standing project will be held soon. According to…
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The Kerala local self-government department (LSGD) plans to modernize 53 dumpsites in Kerala, including the one at Brahmapuram. The department has already reclaimed roughly 45 acres of land by clearing 22 dumpsites. According to officials,…
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The Tamil Nadu police have established a special unit to keep an eye on medical trash being dumped in Tennessee from Kerala. According to a press release from state police headquarters, “South zone police have…
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A biogas plant in the municipality of Kalpetta, Kerala, was inaugurated on 14 August 2022. The plant is reportedly located at a 15,000-square feet area on 9 acres of land in Vellaramkunnu. The investment has…
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The Kerala government has started the process of reclaiming land with legacy waste dumpsites. Faced with inadequate waste treatment infrastructure, the local self-government department (LSGD) has identified around 47 dumps with enormous piles of residual…
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The National Green Tribunal has once again pulled up the Kerala government for poor waste management in the state. The Bench noted that even in major towns like Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi, there are gravely insufficient…
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A World Bank team inspected the biomining technology used for waste disposal at the Kureepuzha trash dumping site on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake. The World Bank is providing Rs 2,300 crore in funding to…
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A new source is commenting on the WtE project in Brahmapuram, Ernakulam District, Kerala. Even after seven years, as per the source, the project has not yet been implemented. Reportedly, a Detailed Project Report (DPR)…
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The Kerala government has begun supporting local bodies in finding scientific waste management solutions in an effort to rid the state’s metropolitan areas of solid garbage. Grants, scientific waste data collection, technical support, and project…
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In Kerala, the Haritha Keralam Mission plans to implement a smart waste monitoring system called Haritha Mitram to keep track of the entire waste management process. This will be done through the local self government…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench has summoned Kerala state officials to Chennai for discussions on the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant on January 6, 2022. According to a communication received from NGT, senior officials from…
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A new waste sorting and segregation plant is to be set up by the Clean Kerala Company (CKC) in Kadakampally village, Kerala. The plant shall process non-biodegradable waste, in particular plastic waste, as reported by…
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Maharashtra generated the highest volume of biomedical waste (BMW) in the country between June 2020 and June 2021, according to a recent document submitted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in Lok…
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Kerala’s Brahmapuram solid waste management plant never ceases to be in the news. This time, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Kochi corporation to file a status report on the solid waste treatment…
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The Kochi Corporation Council has given its green signal to Zonta Infratech for carrying out biomining of legacy waste at the Brahmapuram dumpsite. The council also decided to hand over 20 acres at Brahmapuram to…
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The Kerala government was asked by the National Green Tribunal to expedite the biomining of legacy waste at Brahmapuram. A private firm had submitted a proposal to carry out biomining of the waste several months…
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Construction work at the Njeliyanparamba WtE project in Kozhikode, Kerala is expected to commence in August 2021 and shall be completed by September 2023, reports The Hindu. The project is running behind schedule, mainly due…
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The plans for the development of a WtE facility in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, is still being pursued, reports The Times of India. As the source indicates, the only remaining obstacle seems to be finding a suitable…
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The WtE project at Njeliyanparamba in Kozhikode, Kerala is behind schedule, mainly due to the lack of personnel and further pandemic-related obstacles. Works can start once biomining is completed, reports The Hindu. The 6 MW…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, once again, come down heavily on the Kerala government over the continued ineffective solid waste management of Kochi’s Brahmapuram waste plant, stating that the administration failed in protecting citizens’…
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Work on Kerala’s first waste-to-energy (WtE) plant at Njeliyanparamba, Kozhikode has begun. The WtE plant is being set up on 12.67 acres of Corporation land by Zonta Infratech Private Limited. The ₹250-crore project is expected…
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A Smart Garbage Monitoring System is being developed by the state-run electronics enterprise Keltron for waste management in Kerala. The system, which will be implemented by the Haritha Keralam Mission through the Local Self Government…
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The Kerala government’s decision to re-tender its waste-to-energy plants in eight districts, including Ernakulam, has kicked up a row. The decision to entrust the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) with the re-tendering work too…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has sent a letter to Kochi corporation authorities asking them to lease out around 22 acres of land at Brahmapuram for setting up a Waste to Energy (WtE)…
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The Kerala government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a 25-acre sanitary landfill within KINFRA’s new petrochemicals park at Ambalamugal near Kochi. The landfill is intended for the proper disposal of solid…
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The Kerala State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given a poor rating to a large number of local bodies within the state for their solid waste management efforts.…
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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…
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The Kerala government has exempted barcoded plastic bags used for collecting biomedical waste from the plastic ban imposed in the state from Jan 1, 2020. The Times of India reports that the order issued by…
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With the extended lockdown halting the movement of non-biodegradable waste from Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) of local bodies Kerala, the local self-government department is working out solutions for treatment and disposal of rejects of non-biodegradable…
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The Kerala government has approved two new Waste-to-Energy plants (WtE) plants in the state. One plant will be set-up at Kanjikode (Palakkad) and another in Kannur. Each project is expected to cost between Rs 120…
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As reported by The Hindu, the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has announced plans to build multiple MRFs. The planned MRFs are part of a draft action plan the city had prepared. This was ordered by…
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The Peringamala WtE project has been proposed to be relocated to a government-owned 15 to 20 acres of land in Muttathara. As reported by The Deccan Chronicle, the plant will be executed as a PPP…
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In Kerala, the construction of an e-waste, plastic and glass waste sorting and recycling facility has been proposed. Moreover, district-level facilities for the collection and sorting of non-biodegradable waste are being planned. According to The…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has announced its first WtE plant with a processing capacity of 300 tpd to be set up in Njeliyanparama in Kozhikode. The project cost is estimated to be…
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The Kerala State Commission for Minorities has directed the authorities in Kanjirapally, Kerala, to restore a biogas plant at the town hall, to manage the serious waste management problem in the region. As reported by…
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In the process of finding a long-term solution for the waste disposal problems in Kollam, Kerala, the city is going to install a new WtE facility, with a processing capacity of 200 tpd, at the…
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After the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) floated a tender for a WtE facility in Kozhikode, three additional tenders for WtE facilities in Kollam, Palakkad and Kannur will be released by the end of…
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According to a report by The New Indian Express, the Government of Kerala is in talks with Delhi-based AG Dauters Ltd. for setting up a 20 tpd waste gasification pilot plant in Munnar, Idukki. Two…
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) intends to develop a 5 MW WtE gasification plant in Kozhikode, Kerala, for which it will provide the land. The corporation first proposed the project in 2017, but…
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Construction works at the proposed 10 MW WtE plant in Brahmapuram, Kerala, have been further delayed, because the state’s Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), which has to issue the environmental permit for the project, has…
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The city corporation of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has announced plans to restore 10 small-scale currently dysfunctional community biogas plants. The plants are dysfunctional for several reasons, mainly due to a lack of proper operation, e.g. overloading.…
