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Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) can now purchase electricity through open access from a Waste to Energy in Pune by Antony Lara Renewable Energy (ALREPL), without paying surcharges. The permit has been granted by the…
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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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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…
Aafrin Kidwai
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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Following a major fire at the Moshi landfill in Pune, questions are being raised about the status of the WtE project announced nearly five years ago. In 2017, as part of the development plan Bhosari…
Aafrin Kidwai
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) plans to resume operations at wet waste biogas plant in Vadgaon Budruk, Pune, Maharashtra. The plant has ceased operations after a rain damage in 2019, according to The Hindustan Times.…
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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…
Aafrin Kidwai
Chandigarh civic authorities are planning a visit to Pune to finalise the technology to be used in the setting up a waste processing plant in the city. Interestingly, the Chandigarh officials have already undertaken a…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has deployed “plug and key” units for dry waste segregation in the city. The new units installed on vehicles with different types of mesh attached with a conveyor belt will…
Aafrin Kidwai
The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued an order to the solid waste management department to conduct an audit of its waste processing units. They want a scientific scrutiny of the…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation has decided to turn traditional dumping sites into green sites by potting plants in all wards. This is being done in a bid to earn points in the Swacch Sarvekshan 2021…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Pune Municipal Corporation has reportedly been dumping waste at an unauthorised area near its sanitary landfill in Ramtekdi since the last few days. Recently, the PMC had given an undertaking to Maharashtra Pollution Control…
Aafrin Kidwai
Waste processing work undertaken by the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) will be partially affected over the next few days following a major fire at its new 200 metric tonne capacity plant at Dalvinagar in Ambegaon…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in September, 2019, a committee comprising the Central Pollution Control Board and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has submitted its report on Pune’s Baner waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Pune Municipal Corporation has doubled the cost for the collection and safe disposal of Covid-19-linked biomedical waste to Rs100/kg as against Rs47/kg for the biomedical waste of non-Covid patients. “After Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, and…
Aafrin Kidwai
Residents groups in Kalyaninagar area of Pune have set up a Resource Recycling Centre (RRC) with the help of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) at the civic playground located in the area. The centre will segregate…
Aafrin Kidwai
The ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) has upgraded the rating for Pune, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Vadodara, Ahmednagar, Ballarpur and Gwalior from one-star to three-stars in a central government’s ranking for garbage-free cities (GFC). The…
Aafrin Kidwai
Cities across the country are reporting how the disposal of routine solid waste mixed with COVID-19 waste such as personal protection equipment (PPE), gloves and masks from quarantine centres, has put a massive strain on their…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following protests by locals, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) standing committee has decided to revoke its plan to set up a garbage processing and disposal facility in Bavdhan. The PMC Committee approved a local corporator’s demand…
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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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A 7.5 MW WtE plant has been planned to be built in the Ramtekdi business district near Pune city. It is proposed to process 300 tonnes of waste daily and will be located close to…
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A small-scale biogas plant that was successfully installed in Katraj, a suburb of Pune, Maharashtra, has been shut down two years ago, reported the Pune Mirror. The site has been used as a scrapyard ever…
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In a bid to cater for its 800 tpd of generated waste, the Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (PMRDA) has announced plans to dump its garbage at the Phursungi, Pune, garbage depot. As reported by…
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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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In order to handle its increasing waste management problem, the municipality of Pune has decided to start cooperating with Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE). The company’s waste management includes minimising the volume of waste going to…
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As part of the development plan Bhosari Vision 2020, a new WtE project at the landfill in Moshi, Pune Metropolitan Region was mentioned. The announcement lacked specific details but the plans are said to have…
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The Pune Catonment Board (PCB) has determined a contractor for the WtE project in Hadapsar, as reported by The Times of India. The PCB has decided to award a BOT contract to an unnamed Thai…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently invited an expression of interest for technologies to process and dispose of mixed solid waste, as reported by Waste Management World. The proposal aims at establishing 15 small…
