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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has planned to set up a hydrogen extraction plant for solid waste. The facility to be set up in Hadapsar Industrial Area is expected to produce 10 tpd of hydrogen from…
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Pune-based SWaCH has released a new report profiling waste generation and recovery by waste pickers in the city. Waste from 70% of Pune’s households is collected by the waste pickers of SWaCH, within the framework…
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The company GreenBillions (TGBL) will partner with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to set up a demonstration plant for the conversion of biomass and MSW into hydrogen. The plant will be operated by TGBL’s wholly-owned subsidiary…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has collaborated with The Green Billions (TGBL) to manage waste and convert it into usable green hydrogen. Variate Pune Waste to Energy Private Ltd, a special purpose vehicle or subsidiary of…
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The Pune Civic Corporation (PMC) has started a trial programme to collect electronic waste from Pune citizens, including old phone bills, TVs, PCs, and other devices. The PMC, Adaar Poonawala Clean City Initiative, and Purnam…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will continue to operate small-scale biogas plants, despite earlier plans for a shut down. In June 2022, PMC had announced to close 25 biogas plants. As per the new announcement, however…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to close 25 biogas plants built at a cost of Rs. 100 crore. These factories treat 2-7 MT waste per day. While several facilities have stopped operating over…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has agreed to review the solid waste management project in Bavdhan to ensure it does not cause environmental difficulties for the Ramnadi river, which is undergoing a riverfront development project.…
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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…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has proposed an allocation of Rs 7 crore to relocate construction and other waste from the city to another specified location. Municipal commissioner Mr Vikram Kumar presented a proposal to…
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The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved a case of recovery from Ecoman Enviro Solutions Pvt Limited after its ten thermal composting plants failed to function in the last ten years.…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has sanctioned the setting up of a waste treatment plant to process used sanitary napkins and diapers at Uruli. The plant will have the capacity to treat 8 metric tonnes…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has received offers from four private players to install new technology and restart operations of the decommissioned Sarasbaug biogas plant in Pune, Maharashtra. As further reported in late September, in…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has launched a thermocol recycling initiative in association with the Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH) collective of waste-pickers and KK Nag Private Limited. Through this, Pune hopes to have…
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Following some uncertainties, the Pune civic body has said it will extend its contract with SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling). There is some resistance from certain groups which claim that it is wrong to…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Solid Waste Department has turned its attention to Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste, which was being dumped haphazardly across the city. The PMC has started debris collection centres in 10…
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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…
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Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has announced the tariff for purchasing energy from the proposed 750 tpd WtE facility in Pune, Maharashtra. The revised tariff is INR 7.45 (EUR 0.085)/kWh, reports Mercom India. This, as…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced plans to set up a 200MT waste processing plant for the 23 villages recently included in the PMC urban agglomeration. The PMC will receive Rs 200 crore from the…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to deposit Rs 2 crores for failing to execute its orders to clear legacy waste at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, issued in 2018…
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Starting today, the Pune Municipal Corporation ( PMC) will stop lifting wet trash from the premises of bulk waste generators not processing wet garbage at the source, reports The Times of India. According to the…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) solid waste department has decided to organize a monthly collection program at 300 centres for e-waste and plastic waste. Recently, the PMC organized a one-day e-waste and plastic waste collection…
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Following a pubic campaign by Pune citizens, the Municipal Corporation has announced it will extend the waste collection of the self-employed waste collectors SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling), contract. Pune Mirror reports that the…
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A petition filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2015 has revealed that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has over 500 vehicles that have crossed their expiration date but continue to ply on the…
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The preliminary report of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) related to the January 23 fire incident at Ramtedki, the 75 metric tonne garbage collection and processing plant, estimates a loss of ₹1.40 crore. The damage assessment of…
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With its contract with SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling) coming to an end, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to outsource waste management in the city to private entities. The decision came after…
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The Pune civic administration has announced that it will stop collecting garbage from the premises of bulk waste generators that fail to comply with the norm of processing wet waste at the source by March-end. …
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Hospitals in Pune are upset over the large bills they have attracted for disposing of COVID-19 waste during the last few months, with some even threatening to go to court over the matter. Several hospitals…
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The Bombay High Court has allowed the Pune Municipal Corporation to access dumping sites at Phursungi and Uruli Devachi on an undertaking that it will conduct biomining activities only – and not dump unprocessed garbage.…
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The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a notice to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for non-compliance regarding solid waste at the landfill site. PMC has been warned against dumping fresh garbage at the…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has approved a proposal to give a monthly amount of Rs 20 per home to Swach (Solid waste collection and handling) employees who handle door-to-door garbage collection in slums. As…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has said it will continue with the construction of the new garbage processing unit at Uruli Phursungi despite the villagers’ protest. PMC said the court order did not stop them…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has reported five deaths of its permanent staff, all of whom are women and Class-IV employees who provide essential services like cleaning hospitals and picking up garbage from city streets. The…
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In Pune, Maharashtra, a plastics-to-fuel plant has been inaugurated. In 2018, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) published a tender for the construction of the plant, which was won by Pur O Fuel Pvt Ltd. The…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to appoint IIT-Roorkee to conduct a techno-commercial analysis at their new Waste-to-Energy plant in Ramtekdi, Hadapsar, in the state of Maharashtra, at a cost of INR 8.26 lakh…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation has proposed the construction of a 750 tpd WtE and RDF facility in the city of Pune, Maharashtra. The facility should produce electricity (13 MW), compost and RDF. The plan should…
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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is to set up a C&D waste processing plant at Wagholi, Maharashtra. It will be the second one in India after an installation in Delhi from 2011. According to The Pune…
