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Puducherry government to implement waste management rules

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 1, 2016

Puducherry government will implement the Municipal solid waste management rules, 2016, notified by the Union environment, forest and climate change ministry within a month following a direction...

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1000 toxicity for a minute's exposure to burning garbage fumes in Bengaluru

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 28, 2016

Spending a minute next to a burning garbage dump will expose a Bengalurean to 1,000 times more toxins than the daily safe limit, an Indo-US team of researchers has found.

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Green guards move NGT for order execution

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 28, 2016

Environmentalists Rajesh Pandit and Lalita Shinde have moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for execution of its judgment dated October 17, 2015 on the pollution of Godavari inTrimbakeshwar...

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Government plans waste plant at Rajghat

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 27, 2016

With waste treatment capacity only 50% of what is generated each day, the Delhi government is looking to convert the Rajghat power plant, now closed, into a waste-to-energy plant....

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Waste-to-energy pilot project to start in December

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2016

The German government's nodal agency, Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit's (GIZ), that will be converting waste to energy here as a pilot project in the country, will start the...

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Mysuru City Corporation to set up plant to recycle construction debris

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2016

After dilly-dallying for many years, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has come up with a solution to end the menace of construction and demolition debris being indiscriminately dumped along the...

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Kochi takes waste management initiatives

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 21, 2016

The daunting problems of waste management and vehicle parking in Kochi, the commercial nerve centre of Kerala, may finally be addressed with the electronic startups in the state all set to take...

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Railways to implement green corridor; 175 km long track made waste discharge free

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 20, 2016

Aiming at making rail tracks on its network as green corridor, Railways Wednesday announced that 175-km long line was made waste discharge free zone as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The 141...

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BARC to help Rajkot process solid waste

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 18, 2016

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear research institute, has joined hands with the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) to generate energy from organic waste. The civil...

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Waste-to-energy plant to come up at Bhalswa by December

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 18, 2016

North Delhi Municipal Corporation has announced an ambitious project to install a waste-to-energy plant and a methane extractor plant at the Bhalswa landfill site by December. This is a bid to...

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