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Appur landfill’s legacy waste gets a green makeover with biomining driveTambaram Corporation's biomining project at Appur landfill is progressing well. One-third of the legacy waste has been processed in less th...
SC flags uneven compliance with Solid Waste Management Rules, issues pan-India directionsThe Supreme Court has mandated strict adherence to Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, effective April 1. Uneven compliance across India ne...
New solid waste management rules to come into force from April 1The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026, superseding the Sol...
NHAI working on using solid waste of country for road construction by 2027: Nitin GadkariUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that the National Highways Authority of India aims to segregate all solid waste in the country for r...
Segregating waste at source important for environment: SCThe Supreme Court emphasized the necessity of waste segregation at the source for environmental protection, urging compliance with the 2016...
NITI Aayog bats for incentives to segregate waste at sourceThe Aayog has proposed introduction of ‘Pay As You Throw’ policy which will entail a waste collection fee from the waste generator in propo...
BBMP doesn’t want segregation to go to wasteNew solid waste plan targets 90% segregation by Sept and 100% by December.
Not segregating waste? BBMP mulls hefty fineWhile the DMA is also working on a state policy on waste management based on the SWM Rules, 2016, (the national policy), it has also simult...
From Feb, BBMP to collect only wet waste from houses dailyGoing forward, the civic body plans to impose compulsory processing of wet waste in houses constructed on sites measuring 60x40 sqft and ab...
Pay Rs 10,000 fine for throwing waste in public place: National Green TribunalThe directions came while hearing a plea relating to mismanagement of municipal solid waste in Delhi and the terrible conditions that are p...
Government plans to get rid of dumpyards in 20 big cities in just three yearsOn Monday, municipal commissioners of these cities agreed to formulate time bound action plans by factoring in the solid waste already dump...
Solid waste may be used for highway constructionThe first such project will be the Delhi-Meerut expressway where solid waste from Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site would be used for construc...
Bengaluru: Contractors' pay linked to garbage separation nowThe new garbage contracts are formulated based on a time-and-motion study that went into the resources required to handle the waste generat...
Local bodies will have to train garbage collectors in solid waste managementUnder the new Solid Waste Management Rules, urban local authorities and panchayats will prepare a plan for managing solid refuse within six...
Environment ministry revises the Solid Waste Management Rules after 16 yearsThe Rules stipulate zero tolerance for throwing, burning, or burying the solid waste generated on streets, open public spaces outside his p...
Managing Garbage - Bengaluru air dirtier than you thoughtEkolog, a Poland-based waste management firm, to build a 400-tonne-perday (TPD) waste-to-energy plant in Bengaluru.
Dumped garbage on roads? Get set to rot in jailBBMP wants the state to empower its officers with power of arrest - a move they believe can drive home the point that citizens are equally ...
Recommendations called for best workable model on solid waste management: Mufti Mohammad SayeedMufti Mohammad Sayeed directed the Housing and Urban Development officials to submit recommendations within one month for choosing the best...
- MCD to generate power from waste
The MCD has worked out a Rs 170 crore investment plan for removal and segregation of municipal solid waste from which power could be genera...