Tag: garbage

Recycling Heroes Award bagged by an NGO in Mumbai

MUMBAI: NGO Project Mumbai and its initiative The Mumbai Plastic Recylothon has received the Recycling Heroes Award 2023. From London-based Global Recycling Foundation, the award carries citation and a cash prize of $1,000. Chosen from among 400 entries from 60 countries, Project Mumbai is the only Indian organisation in this category to have won this award, which was announced on March 18, World Recycling Day. The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon inspires citizens to donate plastic waste month after month, which is recycled into amenities such as benches, garbage bins, pots and…

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Green Hydrogen’s Cleanest Route – Waste

The rapidity at which India is expanding and urbanising, it is time to press the pedal on turning municipal waste to energy, dovetailed with the National Green Hydrogen Mission. In India, unsustainable garbage management affects living spaces for most cities. According to the World Bank, over 90% of waste in low-income countries is disposed of in dumps or is burned unchecked. Such activities have major effects on people’s health and the environment. We need to recognise the need for an effective and efficient garbage collection mechanism for solid waste management. According…

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Ways for solid waste management and sanitation to be suggested by JICA to the VMC

To tackle challenges of increasing solid waste, the Japan International Cooperation Agency will suggest ways of waste management to the Varanasi Municipal Corporation based on the best practices followed in Japan as the per day average of solid waste generation of Varanasi has gone up to 700 metric ton as apart from locals a huge floating population of pilgrims and tourists are also contributing in waste generation. To discuss solid waste management, waste water treatment and recycling and drinking water distribution system with new revenue generation model, a joint coordination…

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More manpower to be hired for solid waste management by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to hire an additional 250 sanitation workers for solid waste management in the city. Applications from Mission Shakti groups, transgenders, self-help groups and other voluntary organisations have been invited. “The city’s population is increasing and we need more manpower to look after the solid waste management. We have published an advertisement asking the interest groups to apply. Those selected will be hired as Swachh Sathis and Supervisors. One Swachh Sathi is required for 600 households,” BMC deputy commissioner (sanitation) Suvendu Swain said…

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Landfill at Bhalswa to get cleared by March 2024

Delhi government is targeting the removal of 50 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of garbage from Bhalswa landfill by March next year, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday. Officials informed the CM that against an initial target to remove 6,500 MT of waste per day, 12,000 MT would be cleared daily. The CM, along with mayor Shelly Oberoi, reviewed the progress of work at the landfill, including the process of biomining and bioremediation of legacy waste. After taking note of the timelines of garbage processing operations, he walked up to…

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Chandigarh – New Integrated Solid Waste Management Plant to be constructed by 2025

A high-powered committee of the UT administration led by UT adviser Dharam Pal announced the integrated solid waste processing plant would be constructed in two years and be operational for 25years, directing stricter penalties be imposed for non-fulfilment of environmental and emission norms and accepting the recommendations of the CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). The committee asked the civic body to incorporation provisions of heavy penalties in the rules for the selected bidder if even a single environmental rule was violated while operating the newly-planned waste management plant. “After…

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