Mumbai's degraded waste at Kanjurmarg will produce electricity from April.

Government has taken several initiatives to reduce pollution caused by thermal power plants which includes making it "mandatory" for such plants falling within 50 km of sewage treatment plant to us

Keeping in consideration rising pollution levels due to burning of waste, East Corporation has installed a plant at its Ghazipur landfill site to extract methane gas on a trial basis.

The 9,000 tonnes of waste that Mumbai generates can be used to meet its peak power requirement through efficient segregation of waste at source, and waste-to-energy plants

The Environment Ministry will notify next week a set of "completely revamped" waste management rules including those for plastic and bio-medical refuse.

As renewable energy sources goes, solar rays have historically hogged the limelight.

The TMC has signed a pact with a NGO for converting garbage and solid waste into fuel. The city generates around 700 MT of waste daily and a section of the same will be used to generate fuel.

Report submitted to NGT

State government had set the process in motion to tap 5000 MW of renewable energy by April 2017.