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Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has directed Delhi’s urban local bodies to shut down all dhalaos in the city and replace them with material recovery facilities (MRFs) by December 2024 to ensure proper waste segregation. The…
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A man in Indore allegedly pointed a gun at a sanitation worker who objected to the non-segregation of waste. The incident was captured on video and went viral on social media, prompting a police probe.…
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Last month, SBM-U 2.0 launched the flagship newsletter Swachh Vaarta. This bi-monthly newsletter envisages keeping all citizens updated on the activities and events undertaken by the Swacch Bharat Mission. It aims to showcase the journey of…
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Waste management company Urbaser Sumeet has partnered with the M A Chidambaram Stadium and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) to manage waste during this year’s IPL. Waste will be sorted at source and from designated…
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‘Swachhotsav – 2023: Rally for Garbage Free Cities’ was organized in New Delhi by MoHUA in collaboration with GIZ, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection; UNEP and UN Habitat,…
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The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) plans to establish four waste processing plants to achieve 100% disposal of waste materials from the landfill site and to reduce air pollution. These plants will include a smart material…
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On Sunday evening, a new fire erupted at Kochi’s Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant. Firefighters were able to put out the blaze with the help of eight fire engines. Despite efforts to quickly extinguish the…
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The National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change has approved a project titled “Integrated Scientific Solutions for Improving Legacy Municipal Solid Waste Management in the Indian Himalayan…
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In its Budget announcement, the Delhi government has committed to leveling the city’s three garbage mountains within two years and will loan the civic body ₹850 crore to speed up the process, according to state…
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For the first time, an Indian waste management company, Recykal, has made it to the list of Financial Times’ Top 500 High-Growth Companies Asia Pacific 2023. Hyderabad-based Recykal was ranked number 6 on the list.…
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Trichy corporation has put out a tender to find an agency to manage solid waste management (SWM) in its 65 wards for three years. The chosen agency will use battery-operated vehicles to collect waste door-to-door…
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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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Kia India has launched a plastic waste management program in association with the India Pollution Control Association (IPCA). The goal is to instill a sense of social responsibility among people so that efficient material recovery…
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The construction of Urban Extension Road (UER) II in New Delhi, which the authorities also refer to as the third ring road of the national capital, will require close to 4 lakh metric tonnes (MT)…
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Ahead of the forthcoming Municipal Corporation elections, the Punjab government has said it will spend Rs 2.67 crore to dispose of solid waste and other works in Jalandhar. Dr Nijjar said the department would hire…
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The Maharashtra government in India has decided to partially roll back its plastic ban policy, allowing all single-use items made of compostable plastic and bags made of polypropylene of not less than 60 grams per…
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The Seventh Report of the Solid Waste Monitoring Committee for Haryana and Chandigarh states that 807 bulk trash generators must build wet waste processing facilities on their properties. The committee was established on the National…
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The Trichy civic body is considering the privatization of solid waste management services in the city. The plan is currently in the proposal stage. Shortage of sanitation workers is one of the major reasons for this, reports The New Indian Express. A month ago the city authorities purchased 99…
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) monitoring committee has approved a new date of April 30, 2025, for establishing and commissioning the solid waste management plant in Ludhiana. The NGT members also questioned the Punjab Pollution…
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The Tamil Nadu government plans to establish a separate solid waste management corporation, similar to the agency in Goa. Mr Siva V Meyyanathan, the state minister for climate change and environment said that this agency…
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One of India’s largest waste management firms Ramky Enviro Engineers has announced its new brand identity. Henceforth, it will be known as ‘Re Sustainability Limited’. Re Sustainability Limited (RE), a KKR-backed company, offers environmental services and…
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Tamil Nadu-based waste management platform Cercle X has raised Rs 1.9 crore in a seed funding round from Gurugram-based Inflection Point Ventures. Co-founded by Vishnu Vardhaan and Divya Shetty in January 2020, the startup is…
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The three municipal corporations of Delhi have spent over ₹11,750 crore on sanitation and cleaning services in the Capital over the last five years. In an official reply to a question in the Delhi Assembly, South…
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pointed out that the management of solid waste by the urban local bodies (ULBs) in Himachal Pradesh was ineffective in controlling waste disposal in a scientific…
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Awareness and capacity building Decentralised resource recovery Improvement of disposal site operations Circular investments These are the four action areas in solid waste management for Mangaluru, as identified by the UN Habitat using its proprietary…
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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…
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On 22 June, 10 councillors and officials of the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) have visited a waste processing plant in the city of Ambala, Haryana to study technology for processing dry waste. However, as further…
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Officials from the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) are currently in Chennai to assess the city’s waste management model. Urbaser Sumeet, which manages SWM operations in Chennai, is playing host to the Ludhiana officials, a company…
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Digitization or Digital Transformation (DT) is very important to get work done; it helps analyse information, make conscious decisions, and most importantly share information with concerned stakeholders with ease. DT of waste management sector in…
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In 2006, Ahmedabad-based Sandeep Patel launched his waste management business. By his own admission, the initial years were tough, but Sandeep persisted. Fifteen years later, Nepra Waste Management Pvt. Ltd. finds itself among India’s largest and most reputed dry…
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Hectic preparations are underway for the sixth edition of the India International Science Festival (IISF) to be held online from December 22 to 25, 2020. IISF is organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology and…
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The UNEP, in partnership with the International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), and IGES Center Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) has released a new report, titled Waste Management during the COVID 19 Pandemic: From…
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Known as one of India’s finest experts on Solid Waste Management, Prof Brajesh Dubey, IIT Kharagpur, believes that the country’s waste management system can benefit immensely from homegrown technologies developed by Indian entrepreneurs. In an…
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PTC India Financial Services (PFS) has announced that its board of directors has cleared a plan to disburse loans of Rs 485 crore to borrowers for solid waste management, among other projects. The decision was…
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After much delay, the Adampur Chhawani dumpsite located on the outskirts of Bhopal will begin the scientific disposal of waste from tomorrow onwards. The Adampur dumpsite was set up two years ago after the Bhanpur…
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The IIT-Delhi Alumni Association (IITDAA) has adopted 25 village clusters located in the Mitraon area Village Adoption Program Under Swachchta Initiative (VAPUSI), according to The Times of India. IITDAA is planning to undertake several infrastructural…
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In an effort to manage the city’s waste problem, Thiruvananthapuram city corporation is proposing to set up biogas plants at institutions that produce large amounts of waste, like hotels, restaurants and temple organisations, free of…
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The WtE plant in Jawahar Nagar, which should be operational at the end of the year, is going to create higher costs than previously thought, as reported by The Hindu. Main reason for that should…
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According to The Times of India, the Solid Waste Management Project in Gurugam, Haryana, which should have a capacity of 100 MWel and will cost around INR 4.3 billion (EUR 55 million) is facing problems.…
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Delhi-based private company AG Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd proposed to start 20 WtE projects, similar to the one in Patna, in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana by 2019. However the…
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According to the Telegraph India, a Delhi-based private company has shown interest in establishing a waste-to-energy plant in the city of Patna. The company named AG Dauters Waste Processing Pvt Ltd proposed to convert 700…
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The Times of India has reported that construction works for the Ghaziabad WtE plant are likely to begin soon, as the land acquisition process was completed recently. Indian company Accord Hydro was awarded the contract…
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American financial investor KKR is acquiring a 60 % share of India-based waste management company Ramky Enviro Engineers, reports the Economic Times. The deal is worth USD 600 million. Ramky Enviro is valued at USD…
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In a meeting between the Legislative Committee on Environment and Panchayat authorities, the committee emphasised on establishing a comprehensive waste management project for the Erumeli region. According to The Hindu, the Panchayat authorities then hinted…
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According to Telanga Today, the construction works at a new WtE project in Secunderabad are progressing. The plant is realised at the area of the Secunderabad Railway Station and planned to be operational by September…
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According to The Quint, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is expected to be signed between the Belgian capital Brussels and the Greater Chennai Corporation, in order to facilitate funding from multilateral agencies for infrastructure development…
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The civic body of Aurangabad, Maharashtra, has announced that a Waste-to-Energy plant will be constructed in the city to solve its garbage disposal problem. According to The Times of India, the expression of interest (EOI) for the…
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Seven technology start-ups in Tiruchirappalli (Trichy), Tamil Nadu, have received funding amounting to a total of INR 75 million (EUR 935,702) through a governmental Seed Support Scheme, according to The Times of India. The start-ups…
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A BOT contract for a new WtE facility in Pimpri Chinchwad, Maharashtra, has been awarded to an entity of 2 private companies at a value of INR 2.08 billion (EUR 26 million), according to The…
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In an inspection visit to an ongoing construction site of a WtE plant in Naidupet village, the municipal administration minister has announced that all planned Waste-to-Energy plants in the cities of Guntur, Visakhapatnam and Tirupati…
