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News8 years agoGlobal Waste Could Grow By 70 Percent By 2050 As Cities Boom, Warns World Bank
With an increase in urbanization and size of population, the world, especially the South Asian and Sub-Saharan African countries are set to produce the biggest proportion...
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News8 years ago
Kolkata’s Dhapa Landfill To Get A Relief As Civic Body Clears Construction Of CNG Plant
To unburden Kolkata’s already exhausted Dhapa landfill, the city’s civic body has begun work on manufacturing CNG and bio-fertilisers from wet waste
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Andhra Pradesh8 years ago
Visakhapatnam’s Sole Landfill To Breathe Easy As City Starts Composting 200 Tonnes Of Kitchen Waste Daily
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation uses around 200 tonnes of wet waste to produce 30-40 tonnes of compost daily
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Jammu & Kashmir8 years ago
A Black Hole For Trash, Is Leh’s Latest Solution To Tackle The Garbage Mountain
Leh district will soon get a ‘BlackHOLE’ machine, which has a capacity of converting one tonne of waste into 20 kilos of dry ash within 24...
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E-Waste8 years ago
Combating The E-Waste Menace: How Waste Pickers In Pune Prevented 1,000 Kilos Of Waste From Going To The Landfill
1,000 kilos of e-waste was collected in one year at the recycling centre at Dhankawadi in Pune, thanks to the efforts of waste pickers
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News8 years ago
Armed With A Rs 654 Crore Budget, Tamil Nadu To Launch Mega Waste Management Programme Across The State
Tamil Nadu will spend over Rs 600 crore to revamp its waste management infrastructure completely, as the state does away with landfills and concentrates on composting
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Waste Management8 years ago
This Mumbai School Goes Green, Gets Recycled Desk And Chairs Made From Used Cartons
Cartons are 100% recyclable, but usually ends up clogging the already filled landfills, but thanks to this Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation initiative, an NGO in Mumbai is...
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Landfill Crisis8 years ago
Noida Authority Complies To NGT Order, Begins Work To Remove Landfill Site From Sector 54
In compliance with NGT’s order, the waste would be dried to be transported away from the site and later segregated
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Chhattisgarh8 years ago
This Is What Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur, One of The Best Performing Cities In Waste Management, Is Doing With Eggshells
Zero-waste landfill city Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh was rewarded as one of India’s best city in ‘Innovation and Best Practices’ (population 1 – 3 lakh) category in...
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Waste Warriors Of India8 years ago
‘Weddings Are Not Always About Pomp And Show,’ Says Chennai Duo Who Give Wedding Planning A Green Twist
Veena and Sudarshana from Chennai are hoping to cut down on the waste burden of landfills by organising zero-waste weddings in an inexpensive way
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Delhi8 years ago
Monitoring Garbage Disposal Plans, Actions Of Municipal Bodies: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal Tells Supreme Court
Two new Waste-to-Energy plants with capacity of 3,500 Metric Tonnes are being set up at Bhalswa and at Tehkhand respectively. The capacity of existing Waste-to-Energy plant...
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Delhi8 years ago
Supreme Court Says Delhi Under 'Mountains Of Garbage', Slams Lieutenant Governor For Inaction
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor was criticised heavily by the Supreme Court for his inability to tackle the city’s mounting garbage crisis
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Delhi8 years ago
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal Reviews The Management Plan Of Okhla Landfill
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will work with experts from IIT-Delhi to stabilise the Okhla landfill site that has reached a staggering height of 165 feet
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Delhi8 years ago
East Delhi Civic Body Plans Sustainable Waste Management Programme, 2,500 Households To Segregate Waste For Eight Months
EDMC plans to distribute colour coded dustbins to 2,500 households in Trilokpuri to encourage waste segregation
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Delhi8 years ago
Despite New Waste Management Rules, Delhi's Ghazipur Landfill Grows 15 Metres In A Year
Despite plans of shutting the landfill in 2008, or using waste from it to build highways, nothing has materialised yet
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