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How New York turns millions of pounds of food waste into 'black gold'New York City is transforming organic waste like food scraps and yard trimmings into valuable compost, dubbed "black gold," at facilities l...
Oil India Ltd & GMC ink MoU to collaborate on transformation of Municipal Solid Waste into compressed biogasOil India Limited (OIL) and Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on co...
ADB's USD 200 million boost for clean India: Loan to enhance waste management and sanitation across 100 citiesADB's financing will contribute to the Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0-Comprehensive Municipal Waste Management in Indian Cities Program, emphasi...
KisanServ turns wet waste of metros to free organic compost for farmersKisanserv through its social initiative organized farmers meet in Manchar district of Maharashtra, distributed organic compost to around 20...
EKI Energy Services bags contract as carbon credit service provider from IndoreEKIESL will help ISCDL monetise emission reductions and realise additional revenue which it can use to support and fund its multiple welfar...
In Bengaluru, household composting of wet waste likely to be mandatoryBengaluru generates about 5,000 metric tonnes of waste per day, of which about 60% is said to be wet waste.
Here's one city turning India's mountain of trash into cashCombining the availability of cheap labor with traditional methods and modern plants shows how India might overturn its image of ubiquitous...
Funds crunch, failure to transport & segregate wasteOfficials from Centre, state, municipalities and the private sector that TOI spoke to summarised these aspects as key challenges that city ...
Swachh Bharat 3 years later: Toilets a success; trash - not yetThe Modi government had set an ambitious target of building 65.82 lakh individual household toilets and five lakh community and public toil...
2 lakh villages declared open-defecation freeWhile for rural areas the next challenge is to deal with the liquid waste generated, the situation across cities and towns seems to be gett...
The Belgian entrepreneur who has unique ideas for solid waste managementSeparating organic waste is one thing, making use of it another. Composting does not generate enough money. “In the city, you can’t compost...
India becoming world's new investment destination: M Venkaiah NaiduVarious reform initiatives such as credit rating, value capture financing, waste to energy and waste to compost were also discussed, a rele...
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...
Amitabh Bachchan asked to be face of Swachh Bharat AbhiyanThe urban development ministry on June 20 wrote to Bachchan, thanking him for being “one of the mostproactive ambassadors” of Swachh Bharat...
Single-window clearance for urban projects by November 30, says Venkaiah NaiduThe government will soon provide a single-window clearance for urban development projects, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said.
Proposals of power, compost generation to soon come up before Cabinet: Venkaiah NaiduProposals for generating electricity and compost from municipal solid waste would shortly come up before the Cabinet for approval, Venkaiah...
Here's how you can be the change, this World Environment DayBengaluru usually celebrates the World Environment Day with celebrations, workshops and seminars. We list five things you can do every day.