Tag Archives: Solid Waste Management

The Government of Karnataka (GoK) has proposed to establish Solid Waste processing, treatment and disposal facilities with an objective to improve the quality of Solid Waste Management (SWM) services in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) area. An Empowered Committee ... Read More »

Plastic ban in Maharashtra has put back the issue of ‘Solid Waste Management’ in the centre stage yet again. The monsoons are a grim reminder of what mis-management of solid waste can do to our cities and towns in India. ... Read More »

Under the new Solid Waste Management policy, the Haryana government has divided the state into 14 clusters. In four of these clusters, Gurugram-Faridabad, Rohtak, Sonipat and Ambala-Karnal, the municipal solid waste will be converted into energy after processing the waste. ... Read More »

India, is the 2nd largest nation in the world with a population of 1.3 billion.The per capita waste generation rate in India increased from 0.44kgs/ day in 2001 to 0.5kgs/ day in 2011, fueled by changing life style and increased ... Read More »

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to depute ward officials to get roadside and minor storm water drains cleaned before monsoon. The Corporation failed to receive favourable response to the tenders posted four times in the past year to appoint ... Read More »

The Environment Ministry of India has revised Solid Waste Management Rules after 16 years. The Rules are now applicable beyond municipal areas and will extend to urban agglomerations, census towns, notified industrial townships, areas under the control of Indian Railways, ... Read More »

Navi Mumbai is a planned City. In 1971, around 600kms of land was given to CIDCO to develop this new City. On January I, 1992, the then government created Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation to manage the entire City which consists ... Read More »

Recent initiatives by the central government lead by none other than PM Narendra Modi brought the issue of cleanliness into the drawing rooms and dinner table discussions of Indian middle class and created a euphoria for electronic, print and social ... Read More »

Battling for years together to solve the problem of Solid Waste Management (SWM), the Karnataka Government has appointed Darpan Jain as the first SMW Special Commissioner with the task of solving the garbage disposal projects for the Bangalore civic body. ... Read More »

As part of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), local people at Gangtok were trained in composting techniques for bio-degradable wastes and Solid Waste Management. Dehradun-based Clover Organics organized a technical session to train the members of village panchayats, local students ... Read More »

Waste audits to quantify the various components in a waste stream are becoming increasingly important for proper solid waste management. This is due to the main shift in the overall strategy for waste management where collection & disposal has changed to a segregation & resource recovery policy. There is a need for conducting waste audits and to understand how the data can be interpreted for administrative, technical and commercial outcomes. Read More »

Nashik is one of the first cities in the country to have scientific landfills. The Nashik Municipal Corporation has planned to process waste in technologically advanced energy plants to be built by next year. Speaking to Clean India Journal, Sanjay Khandare, Municipal Commissioner, Nashik talks about the Clean mantra of the city – ‘A bin-free Clean Nashik, Beautiful Nashik’. Read More »

In a way to encourage waste management practises in Bengaluru, the Bengaluru Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) has instituted an award for best practice in effective management of solid waste for its member companies. The BCIC has roped in ... Read More »

In order to process 25 lakh tonnes of waste dumped at its landfill site, Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in consultation with global and national companies. Kishore Kanyal, Additional Municipal Commissioner, talks about the initiative. The Waste to Energy programme ... Read More »

Dr Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, chaired a meeting in New Delhi recently to discuss the Financially Viable and sustainable PPP Models for Solid Waste Management. The meeting was attended by officials of MoUD, JnNURM, Senior officials of ... Read More »

Malegaon as a city lacks basic infrastructure for collecting and disposing of solid waste without adequate underground sewage system. The city ranks 13th in generating MSW in the country and has the distinction of accommodating Asia’s biggest plastic recycling industry, ... Read More »

Mysore City Corporation (MCC) comprises 65 wards divided in nine zones. Around 400 tonnes of municipal waste is generated daily in the city of which about half is used to produce manure. The rest is handled by Zero Waste Management ... Read More »

The brainstorming session of WTERT India noted that the status of MSW management in India has not improved substantially despite enormous finding from JNNURM and other governmental grants. Smaller cities conditions are even more of concern. The MSW Management and ... Read More »

Known as the Textile city and located in the Coimbatore district, Tirupur is one of the most important industrial centers of Tamil Nadu. Hindered by shortage of manpower for cleaning and sanitation works, Tirupur Municipal Commissioner KR Selvaraj is planning ... Read More »

Almitra Patel, a civil engineer by qualification, says she was first alerted to India’s huge problem of inadequate waste disposal when she noticed that the frogs in the marshlands near her farmhouse, on the city’s outskirts, had stopped croaking. Seeing ... Read More »