Biogas plant to be inaugurated next week

In the recent past, the Attingal municipality has made several strides in implementing waste management programmes, and when the civic body inaugurates a biogas plant, with capacity to process 1,000 kg of waste a day, at the Attingal market next week, it will be yet another milestone.

Urban India is facing an ever increasing challenge of providing for the incremental infrastructural needs of a growing urban population. According to the 2011 census, the population of India was 1.21 billion; of this 31% live in cities. It is further projected that by 2050 half of India’s population will live in cities.

The report looks back on the past years and discusses the evolution of NAMAs, it presents five case studies (Chile, Indonesia, Kenya, Tunisia, and Peru) and draws insights from hands-on NAMA experience and dialogues with peers, and it looks into the future of NAMAs as essential building block for a global climate regime.

In a world first, British Airways is planning to use garbage to power its flights in an ambitious project which aims to convert municipal waste into 50,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel per year.

The plant was on a trial run for the past three months and was found to be functioning effectively

The Sesa Sterlite has established an eco-friendly bio-gas unit within its alumina refinery complex at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district at a cost of Rs 60 lakh.

Despite the Supreme Court directions issued to various state governments, including Haryana, to set up solid waste management plants, the plant project here has been hanging fire due to red tapism

Every day, the district produces 300 tonnes of municipal waste.

The Greater Noida Authority is planning to built a waste-to-energy plant — the district’s first solid waste management plant — in the Sector-123 area of Greater Noida.

Residents of Sukhdev Vihar, Okhla, have on Saturday written to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) against Delhi’s Jindal’s Timarpur-Okhla waste

New Delhi: About 80 doctors from Holy Family Hospital in Okhla and some other hospitals across the city have written open letters to the Prime Minister’s Office raising concerns about emissions fro

The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is investing £51m in a proposed new energy-from-waste plant in Kings Lynn, Norfolk.

Pages