Aafrin Kidwai
Maharashtra’s urban development department has received detailed project reports from 28 cities, including Pune, Mumbai, Thane, Nagpur, and Solapur, regarding the cleanup of old landfill sites. These cities account for approximately 80% of the total…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Gurugram district wildlife department has written to the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) about the leachate from the Bandhwari landfill polluting water bodies in the Aravalli forests, posing a significant threat to animal life.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) southern zonal bench has expressed displeasure over the delay in removal of burnt waste, plastic, and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from the Brahmapuram dumpsite in Kochi. Meanwhile, the fiasco at Kochi…
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Gurugram officials have agreed that starting February 1, 2023, no additional waste will be dumped at the Bandhwari landfill. The decision was made during a high-level discussion with representatives from the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram…
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The quantity of legacy waste disposed of at three landfill sites in the capital has decreased by 26.1 lakh MT over the past four months (June to September), representing a 462% increase over the previous…
Aafrin Kidwai
Decomposing food waste is releasing thousands of tonnes of planet-warming methane gas at landfills in Buenos Aires, Delhi, Mumbai, and Lahore, according to new research. With about 570 million tonnes of the greenhouse gas emitted…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will use drones to map the elevation of landfills and monitor their height reduction, among other things. A similar pilot exercise was conducted a few months ago and yielded positive results. The move comes approximately a fortnight after LG Vinai Kumar Saxena…
Aafrin Kidwai
As per recent official data, the quantity of waste thrown into Delhi’s three landfill sites increased by roughly 15% over the previous year. Delhi generated 10,990 tonnes per day (TPD) of municipal solid waste (MSW)…
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A fire broke out in Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill on Friday. While temperatures in the national capital remain high in the scorching summer, the specific cause of the fire is uncertain. An MCD official informed The…
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has announced an October deadline for the commissioning of a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at Tehkhand. It will use 2,000 tonnes of waste per day to generate 25 megawatts of…
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A National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel met with Ludhiana Municipal Corporation officials to discuss 20 metric tonnes of legacy waste accumulating in the landfill at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). The civic body has missed previous…
Aafrin Kidwai
A massive fire broke out at the Bhalswa landfill site in north Delhi on Tuesday evening. According to officials, 13 fire tenders were at the site to douse the flames. Environment minister Gopal Rai on…
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Urban local bodies need a comprehensive policy for reuse of reclaimed land The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs recognised that the unlined dumpsites in India are creating various irreversible environmental hazards. The major…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Centre has approved the action plans of three states – Rajasthan, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh – as well as Chandigarh for the remediation of legacy municipal trash at dump yards in 171 municipal areas…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) have approved a Rs 20-crore project to build a 100-metric solid waste management facility on PCB’s property. A total of Rs 7.50 crore has…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has asked its waste concessionaire, Ecogreen, to present a status report on its progress on the proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at the Bandhwari landfill site. The local body has requested…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Noida Development Industrial Authority (GNIDA) has floated a Rs 121 crore tender for door-to-door waste collection from its urban and rural areas and transportation to the landfill. Interested companies can apply for the…
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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is working towards the bio-remediation and reclamation of landfill area at Bandhwari. The site will be cleared at an estimated Rs 16 crore within a month. It will then…
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There are ongoing protests against a proposed relocation of the Chandrapur landfill in Guwahati, Assam. According to the Assam Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, Debabrata Saikia, original plans provided for setting up a Waste to…
Aafrin Kidwai
After being pulled up for dumping of bio-medical and other COVID waste at Sonsoddo landfill, the Goa Solid Waste Management Corporation (GSWMC) has assured the Margao Municipal Corporation (MMC) that the waste will be lifted…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in the dock for allegedly conducting waste processing at its Bhuasuni yard without valid authorization from the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB). An inspection by the SPCB’s regional office…
Aafrin Kidwai
Noida plans to discontinue the temporary dumping site in Sector 145 and replace it with the permanent landfill site in Dostpur Mangroli on Yamuna Pushta. The Noida Authority has identified the site which is located…
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The Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) will be setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) at Dadumajra for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. Spread over 8 acres, the site will be…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that landfill-pit is not a ‘plant and machinery’ but a ‘civil-structure’. The ruling was made in the case of the applicant, M/S Mother Earth Environ Tech…
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The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had decided that all solid waste collected from the areas newly merged into the city will henceforth go to the Pirana dumpsite. The AMC has asked the concerned zone to…
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The tender for bio-mining of garbage at Bhandewadi dumping yard is all set to be scrapped. The board of directors (BoD) of Smart City Project’s special purpose vehicle — Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development…
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The Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has begun covering the dump and lifting the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) stacked at Sonsoddo. Over the weekend, seven machines started baling waste, which will be sent to the cement…
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The municipal corporations of Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla in Delhi have begun the processing of waste at the three local landfills. All of them are severely overfilled. Through bio-mining processes, the waste will be sorted…
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A committee appointed by the Supreme Court has approved the setup of a 10 MW WtE plant in Agra, following an expert review on the environmental impact of the plant. The WtE facility, which has…
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The establishment of a WtE plant in Deonar, Mumbai, has already faced several serious challenges, as ecoprog reported earlier. Due to the failure of stopping the tender, Bombay High Court had extended the permission to…
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As The Times of India reports, Chandigarh Smart City Company Limited has tendered the INR 40 crores mining project to clear the garbage dump in Dadumajra. In a period of 180 days, 500,000 tonnes of…
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According to the Indian Express, Bombay High Court has extended the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) permit to dispose waste at the Deonar landfill until 31 December 2019. As reported in March 2018, the 600 tpd…
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A2Z Waste Management has commissioned a new RDF incineration plant in Ludhiana, with a processing capacity of 1,600 tonnes per day, as The Times of India reported. The 11 MW RDF plant located at Tajpur…
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One of the two landfills serving Dhaka city, the Matuail landfill, is expected to reach its full capacity in a few years, reported the Daily Star. The site is used by the Dhaka South City…
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According to The Daily Star, one of the two landfills serving Dhaka city, the Matuail landfill, is expected to reach its full capacity in a few years. The site is used by the Dhaka South…
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Two years ago, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in Karnataka decided to convert 6 landfills into MBT plants in order to solve the local garbage crisis. These are located in Kannahalli, Seegehalli, Lingadheeranahalli, Subbarayanapalya,…
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The Municipal Corporation of Jalandhar is planning to install a waste management plant at the Wariana landfill, according to Tribune India. The landfill covers around 14 acres of land and has a daily capacity of…
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The Bhalswa landfill, which was declared as exhausted in 2002, still receives about 2,000 tpd of waste generated by North Dehli, according to the Hindustan Times. The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has now published…
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The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), which represents the local government of Ahmedabad, Indian State of Gujarat, has stated that they seek to construct a new WtE facility in Pirana. The new WtE plant should be…
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According to The Hindu, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi Chief Secretary and the Lieutenant-Governor to set up a meeting to determine an alternative site for a landfill site and also locate…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is seeking the involvement of private companies to deploy their expertise for the remediation of the Kapuluppada landfill. The waste disposal site is located in a fast-growing port city,…
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The Telangana government banned open burning of waste materials in open land and landfill sites with a violation charge of Rs 5000 for ‘simple burning’ and Rs 25,000 for bulk waste burning, according to The…
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In the run-up to the Assembly elections, the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee has presented a blueprint to manage the problem of municipal solid waste in order to make the city cleaner. According to The Times…
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A committee led by the urban development secretary inspected the landfills of Bhalswa, Delhi region and Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. According to The Times of India, the inspection was directed by the National Green Tribunal in…
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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has reduced the proposed gap of 300-500 metres between incineration power plants and residential areas to 30-100 metres, much less than what is defined by the Swachh Bharat Mission.…
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As a reaction of landfill sites filled beyond their capacity, the Central Pollution Control Coard (CPCB) has presented new draft rules aiming to use solid and industrial waste as fuel in the cement industry. According…
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Construction works at an MBT facility atop the Calangute plateau in Calangute, Goa, have recently started. The plant, which comprises an MBT, a recycling, a biogas section and a landfill site for the inert waste…
