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Waste from 3 Chennai slaughterhouses to generate power

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 29, 2015

City residents could soon be free from the sight and stench of discarded animal waste. After a rap from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench over inefficient disposal of such waste, the corporation has decided to set up bio-methanation plants to treat waste from three...

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Subject Tags: policy , waste management

Sanjeev Jaiswal gives green signal for bio-CNG plant in Thane

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 24, 2015

With these projects in place, wet waste generated at hotels, vegetable markets and other places will be taken care of. City-based NGO Samarth Bharat Vyas Peeth has been asked to set-up the first such plant at Kopri east on a contract of 10 years.

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KMC eyes pvt hands to manage waste

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 24, 2015

The civic body's move to hire 350 private sanitary workers for the collection, segregation and transportation of garbage in the city has not gone down well with the social activists, who are crying foul over the attempts to privatise the waste management system.

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Districts in TN (India) going for common waste treatment facilities

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2015

Tirupur, Erode, Salem, Namakkal and Karur districts are some of the major textile processing clusters down South (India) that have been the focus of the Indian textile industry and Government, to establish common facilities for treating effluents and managing waste. The...

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Subject Tags: policy , waste management

PBMC starts pilot drive for solid waste management in Ward No.14

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2015

At present the municipal council is collecting mixed waste from individual households in the municipal area without segregating at source level. Now, the new municipal council is taking efforts to segregate the biodegradable waste from non-biodegradable at the household level...

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Subject Tags: policy , waste management

City of Oslo issues first green bond

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 16, 2015

Oslo has become the latest city to tap the green bond market, with its inaugural SEK1.5 billion ($172.49 million) issue.

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Pay user charges for garbage collection

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 10, 2015

Citizens will now have to pay user charges to the Nashik Municipal corporation (NMC) for garbage disposal in lines of the system followed in Surat. This was decided by the civic general body on Monday, which also approved giving contract to garbage collection agencies for 10...

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Centre makes waste segregation compulsory

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 10, 2015

Waste segregation will now be compulsory when leaving doorsteps. The Union ministry of environment and forest (MOEF) has decided to make it compulsory for waste generators to segregate waste produced by them.In its draft solid waste management rules, the MOEF has state that...

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Subject Tags: policy , waste management

Textiles waste reduction in China backed by Shanghai Yuanyuan’s ‘Panda Bins’

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 9, 2015

China-based Shanghai Yuanyuan Industrial Co., as a part of their textile recycling programme, has started placing innovative ‘Panda Bins’, made from fibreglass extracted from used textiles, as a...

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Hybrid Wastewater Treatment Process Uses 90% Less Energy

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 2, 2015

Akvo Technologies has developed akvoFloat, a flotation-filtration water treatment process for industrial wastewater treatment that uses up to 90 percent less energy than comparable technologies.

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