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Waste segregation mandatory in Ahmedabad from todayBy : Sustainability ..., Dec 4, 2018
From today the Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC) will only accept segregated waste. On the eve of the D-day on Sunday, 40,000 municipal employees — right from the municipal commissioner down to sanitation workers — got down on road, visited societies, 255 parks and... Read more.. Subject Tags: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation , municipal waste , waste collection , waste segregation |
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation eyes wind energy to cut power billBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 28, 2013
After installing solar panels atop some of the main zonal offices of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Sardar Patel Stadium in Navrangpura, the AMC is now turning to wind energy. With the AMC incurring electricity bills worth close to Rs 150 crore per... Read more.. Subject Tags: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation , energy |
AMC plans to generate watts from wasteBy : Sustainability ..., May 28, 2013
As part of its goal to make Ahmedabad a zero-waste city, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plans to generate electricity using municipal solid waste (MSW) and sewerage. It aims to produce nearly 20 MW power through this project in the near future. The... Read more.. Subject Tags: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation , electricity |
A’bad civic body will buy your old PCs, cellphonesBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 5, 2012
Wondering what to do with your old desktops, wires and dated mobile handsets? Soon, you can just hand them over for hard cash to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which is starting a month-long drive for collection of e-waste through private agencies from June 5, the World... Read more.. |
The green fadBy : sustainabilityo..., Jun 5, 2011
One of the city's oldest green assets are the traditional pols on the east banks of the Sabarmati river. Well ventilated and equipped with rain water harvesting systems, these homes have building engineering techniques that bring down temperatures by a few degrees. ... Read more.. |
Ahmedabad's ‘Solid’ management of wasteBy : sustainabilityo..., Aug 1, 2010
Thanks to the long-established tradition of recycling and reuse, per capita generation of waste is quite low in India compared to most developed countries. However, due to large population, the volume of generated waste even in India remains very sizeable. Total waste... Read more.. |
Ahmedabad's ‘Solid’ management of wasteBy : sustainabilityo..., Aug 1, 2010
Thanks to the long-established tradition of recycling and reuse, per capita generation of waste is quite low in India compared to most developed countries. However, due to large population, the volume of generated waste even in India remains very sizeable. Total waste... Read more.. |