BBMP drafts solid waste management by-laws
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike – Bengaluru’s municipal corporation – has drafted by-laws for Solid Waste Management (SWM), which mandate... Read More
Tackling municipal solid waste in clusters
Under the new Solid Waste Management policy, the Haryana government has divided the state into 14 clusters. In four of... Read More
Solid Waste Management Rules Revised
The Environment Ministry of India has revised Solid Waste Management Rules after 16 years. The Rules are now applicable beyond... Read More
Towards Integrated Solid Waste Management
In order to process 25 lakh tonnes of waste dumped at its landfill site, Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in... Read More
Vijayawada on disposal of solid waste
Municipal Commissioner G. Ravibabu, Vijayawada has instructed the officers concerned to prepare a plan for the removal of municipal solid... Read More
Kochi paves way for a holistic system of solid waste management
Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) Kochi implemented Clean City Movement to introduce an eco-friendly solid waste management system. V Raveendran, Executive Director shares his experience.
Interview with: Mahesh Pathak, Integrated Solid Waste Management: Pune creates A perfect model
Pune “The de-centralised waste management model adopted by Pune Municipal Corporation is one of the most successful in the country.... Read More
Rapid Composting of Municipal Solid Wastes
Recent developments in composting technology have novel processes and ideas which can make composting user-friendly and entrepreneur oriented.
Solid waste lessons
As part of the World Earth Day, some Chennai school students visited the house of Indra Kumar of Home Exnora,... Read More
ITC gets negative solid waste tag
With a production capacity of over 160,000 tonnes of recycled paperboards a year, the mills of ITC at Kovai and... Read More
Sustainability issues in Solid Waste Management
There are various ‘Sustainability’ issues concerning waste management in India. Most projects started with good intention by the urban bodies failed to take off. R. A. Rajeev, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, discusses the need for right financial model for such projects.
Solid waste plant at Thiruvananthapuram
The Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation and the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology has proposed to set up a new... Read More
Uttarakhand to set up six waste-to-energy plants
Urban local bodies asked to streamline waste collection Officials have been asked to make a detailed plan regarding the setting... Read More
CPCB on handling waste generated during patient treatment
The CPCB has said that less quantity of biomedical waste is expected from quarantine camps, quarantine home, and homecare facilities.... Read More
Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for the COVID-19 virus
WHO Interim guidance 19 March 2020 This interim guidance supplements the infection prevention and control (IPC) documents by summarizing WHO... Read More
WASTE TECHNOLOGY INDIA CONFERENCE Strategizing Waste C2C in Industries and Smart Cities
Focusing on the theme, the conference looked at waste conversion from the end user point of view be it an... Read More
Mumbai’s largest landfill to get waste-to-energy plan
Seven years after the Bombay High Court told the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to shut the Deonar dumping ground, the... Read More
E-waste: Profitable after recycling, expensive to recycle
For the last few years, 1,600 Japanese municipal officials have been collecting thousands of tonnes of old electronic devices, from... Read More
The Therminator The End of India’s Thermocol Waste
Despite being a highenergy, plastic product, thermocol waste is hardly ever collected and recycled in India. The Therminator is a... Read More
Bhopal to get India’s first e-waste management clinic
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) have joined hands to set up the country’s first... Read More
