Tag: organic waste

Composting
Project S.O.R.T. takes off in Delhi

Project S.O.R.T. takes off in Delhi

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.…

Biogas
Navi Mumbai to set up new bioCNG plant

Navi Mumbai to set up new bioCNG plant

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is building a waste-to-energy plant on the Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) model at its Vashi Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). The city’s wet organic waste will be…

News
GIZ conducts waste characterization study in Kanpur

GIZ conducts waste characterization study in Kanpur

In Kanpur, GIZ recently completed a waste characterization study. At six different transhipment stations in the city, an eight-person team gathered samples from different waste streams. The study found that about half of municipal waste…

Composting
New study concludes 50% of rural solid waste is organic

New study concludes 50% of rural solid waste is organic

A new study on the solid waste composition and various solid waste treatment technologies in the rural areas of India and other countries has found that the solid waste generated in rural areas comprisemore than…